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Tony hawks pro skater 3

Neversoft has change the face of gaming, there overnight success with the Tony Hawk franchise has topped retail charts and transformed the professional skateboarders into pixelated icons! Around the globe, gamers are counting the days until the offical launch comes for Tony Hawks proskater 3. Praying that neversoft is a successful in evolving to the greener pastures of Playstation 2.

As sad as it may sound, Neversoft has has retired the PS-X engine, and has started from sscratch for the PS2 debut. Of course, the gameplay formula will closely mimic BUT it won't feel the same exactly. In achieving the highest level of realism possible, each skater will have over 3,000 Polygons! WOW! and the animations they make are much more fluid like, or flow better. It runs 60 frams per sec. Wow thats pretty good.

Neversoft also spent a lot of timing capturing the authenticity of the real world environments. All the levels are actually living worlds that feature intelligent pedestrians who walk the streets, they will actully interact with the skaters. Man, its getting better already!

For each level Neversoft is scripting events that occur within the environments. In the awesomely detailed Los Angeles stage, you'll witness a robbery that leads to high speed pursuit with two policemen crashing a white van. Wouldn't it be nice if you could help those cops out, well guess again.....You can! If you stop in front of the van, it will run you down; but if you grind a specific railing, which will cause a earthquake, the bridge in the center of the level will fall apart, which will open a new area. As you keep skate on the bridge you will see a green car hanging nearly of the bridge, a man is inside screaming for your help, Why not help him? Since this is a skatebording game you will grind the car and it will send the car and the man along to the ground. Just as the car hits the ground, the white van that our policemen are chasing crash into it. The police get there men. This will be one of the level goals. This is just some of the neat things you will do. There's a much more. This game will put a ! mark down for the best skatebordering game ever.

posted by: Nick
source: Gameinformer magazine

Presentation Tony and the gang are back, and they are looking better than ever!	9.0
Graphics The graphics may not look as good as the Xbox or Gamecube versions, but they are definitely worth checking out.	8.5
Gameplay The controls will keep you at ease, and the goals will keep you laughing.	9.0
Overall This is one of those games you can just pick up and play. Great replay value! Definitely worth the buy.	8.5