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1. #TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 3 DEMO HOW TO#
2. #TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 3 DEMO UPDATE#
3. #TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 3 DEMO MANUAL#
4. #TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 3 DEMO FULL#
5. #TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 3 DEMO WINDOWS#

#TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 3 DEMO FULL#

Without any other goals to pursue in the level, consider this your pre-game practice arena ahead of the full launch on September 4th, so you don’t have to spend time getting used to the controls all over again. Which is all well and good, to be honest. You can navigate to the options menu to view the controls, but for the most part, the Warehouse Demo is a journey of skateboarding discovery. I stumbled on the revert quite by accident, mostly as fifteen-year-old muscle memory kicked in. If there’s one downside to the Warehouse Demo, it’s that there’s no real “tutorial” to help players get the most out of their time with it. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 Warehouse Demo – Learning to Skate

#TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 3 DEMO WINDOWS#

Yet through all the new realism granted to to the Warehouse filled with graffiti, new windows for natural lighting, and a ton of visual texture, it’s amazing how Vicarious Visions recaptured the arcade-like feeling of the classic games and it doesn’t necessarily feel “dated.” Little elements help with quality of life, like the “tape error” visual effect that skips the animation for getting up after bailing, letting players get back to skating rather quickly.

It actually looks like a warehouse now, instead of the low-resolution gray box with ramps and rails we fell in love with two decades ago. Visually the updates to the Warehouse are staggering, especially when going back and looking at what the original game looked like.

#TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 3 DEMO UPDATE#

It became an essential combo feature throughout the series, and Vicarious Visions decided it was also an essential update to Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2. Originally added in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 (personally my favorite game in the series), reverts are a quick spin of the board when coming down from vert tricks that allowed you to retain your combo by transitioning into a manual, using the revert to link the two.

#TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 3 DEMO MANUAL#

Landing a 900 off a quarter pipe is great, but landing a 900 and then reverting into a manual and hitting the Big Rail grind is even better.

#TONY HAWK PRO SKATER 3 DEMO HOW TO#

Still, it doesn’t necessarily pay to button mash, and learning how to string together flips, grabs, grinds, manuals, and reverts for big combos is key. Unlike more recent skateboarding games that have given more granular control over the board and tricks, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 goes back to the classic days of simple button inputs for tricks, with a special meter dictating the ability to do more extreme special tricks. They are all here, and that iconic camera shutter sound plays whenever you trigger them. Slowly but surely the muscle memory returned and I went from a bit of button mashing hoping things would happen to actually stringing together decent combos.I started rediscovering the classic gaps and grinds from the original, whether it’s launching over the kicker or getting “Holy Shi…” by grinding around the entire ramp lip on the back wall. The last Tony Hawk’s game I played with any kind of regularity was 2006’s Tony Hawk’s Project 8, a game I picked up at launch with my PS3, so getting back into the groove of the combo-focused gameplay took some time. But it gets right to the heart of the gameplay mechanics, proving that Vicarious Visions recaptured the big air, long grind, enormous combo feel of Tony Hawk past. And the only score and combo goals are any artificial ones you impose on yourself, just seeing how high you can get. There are no SKATE letters scattered around. There’s no secret tapes to collect (it’ll be in the room above the halfpipe, by the way). Just like the Warehouse Demo of old, there’s not much to “do” in this small level. The two-minute timer starts ticking down and you burst through the wooden barricade and down the ramp into the iconic warehouse that started it all. Then you jump into the game’s quickplay Single Session mode. It’s a huge celebration of skate culture before you even hit “Start Game.” The whole cast is here (or will be, on September 4th. Rodney Mullen’s ground tricks. Kareem Campbell. Steve Caballero. The opening is set to the heart-pumping anthem that is Rage Against The Machine’s “Guerrilla Radio.” I hadn’t even played the game yet and already I was reliving the days of unlocking each skater’s skate videos in the original games.

I know, because the moment I launched the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2 Warehouse Demo, I was immediately thrust 20 years back in time.