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By: Nick

When I first got THPS3 I was very thrilled at the Games Graphics and overall appearance. The different things you have to do in this game are not even related to Skateboarding; hey that's the fun of it. Like for example in Los Angels you have to grind these 4 rails one is western quake, eastern quake, Northern quake, and southern quake, having done this will make a Earthquake, which will rumble the streets of LA. When skating around after this you will soon hear I meek voice say, help me, help up here, somebody help…I don't want to die. So you wonder what to do. You will notice he is up on the freeway…but how do you get up there. Well that's the easy part. At the beginning there is a ramp and stairs get as much speed as you can and grind the rail going up to the building; then having done that you will hear his voice again and see a green car ready to fall, grind the car and it will fall, and no the guy didn't die. Then it will stop a car the police are trying to get. Many of the missions are like this that's just one of them.

There are 8 levels and some hidden ones: The foundry, Canada, Suburbia, airport, skater's island, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. There is also a cruse ship. And the others are yours to find. The skaters are the same, although one minor change bob is out bam Margera is in. There is way more tricks for you to tryout. Rodney Mullen is the king of street and some of his moves are in the game such as: the handstand flip, truck-stand, and more. Every rider has their own special trick, and you have the ability to change their special tricks at your own will.

There is another really cool feature in on Xbox called the system link. This allows you to have up to 18 players play at once, pretty crazy huh. So go ahead take on your friends.

Create-a-skater has not changed too much. Also with the pros you can change there cloths put glasses on them change their pants. You can now have female or male skaters. Tattoos, different coats, different pants, sunglasses, Different shoes, and more!!

Something that has change a lot is the 3D-skatepark-editor. There are way more objects for you to lay the themes are different as well, you can have a beach, and a school. There are not as many but all the different new objects make up for it, I mean come on who wants to skate on the beach, me! Walls-Ride them if you can, Quarter-pipes-two sets to chose from, pools-Construct your own or select the really cool pre-made ones, Slopes-Kickers galore and transition pieces, stairs-ankle busta Mecca, many with rails, Vegetation-throw in some greenery such as trees and plants, misc- high walls, Roll-ins, signs, foliage, and floors, vert-loops and more!!

In the Option menu you can see movies, saves, loading, load replays, level records. The movies show a lot more then they use to on THPS 1,2 they now show the persons life style such as his house, his office what he has done what he plans to do. What he does for his free time. And of course shows them skate. Very cool videos to watch. The loading allows you to load your game; the save allows you to save your game. Loading replays allows you to see your replays you have saved.

Getting tired reading this will don't there's more you don't want to miss out on. There is New multi player modes such as; Trick-attack, horse, slap, Kind of the hill, free skate. The best way to play these is to system link with the your friends Xbox. So go on take on your friends. Trick attack- trick attack is a free for all to see who can skate the best lines and rack up the most points within the given time limit. Horse- how do you spell defeat? "H.O.R.S.E" In this one-on-one best trick contest. Nail a trick, and then watch as your opponent tries to beat it. Slap- here's a new one for you. This one's easy to explain; he who slaps the most wins. When two skaters collide, the faster player stays standing. So bust some tricks to get your special meter full, then cream your opponent. King of the hill is also a new one on THPS3. There's a crown out there somewhere, and the first player to find it becomes kind. While you are King, There will be a crown above you head, and your score -time - will start counting up. To keep things fair, you'll skate slower while wearing the crown. Slap the king around to steal the crown. The first player to hold the crown for the preset time limit wins.

To end this long review you have taken the time to read I say this. They are already in the process of making THPS4 so get your skateboard and start ripping the levels in THP3. Your going to want to before THPS4 comes out!!

Presentation This games concept is still the same. Like in Tony Hawk 2 there is objectives to beat same in Tony Hawk 3 but this time you can free chuck's Tongue from a icey pole in Canada.	9.9
Graphics The graphics are not as good from Tony Hawk 2x, no bit mapping is used for the characters in this one. Although the graphics are superb!	9.7
Gameplay The gameplay is now true to life for example there is a earthquake in LA and you need to free this guy from his car ready to fall off a bridge!	10.0
Overall More exciting objectives, newer tricks. This game separates the rider from the board! Also the graphics are good. If you skateboard or even if you dont go pick up this game and start playing it!!	10.0