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TONY Hawk Pro Skater 3 Review
BY:Kazooie

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3. What a game. By far the best in the series. Bam Margera, who is by far the funniest boarder in the land, has been added to the roster to take the place of Bob Burnquist. With the addition of the revert to the trick roster, you can now link vert tricks, manuals, grinds, and street tricks all into one. The old money system has been trashed, and has been replaced with stat points and decks found in each level. 5 stat points and one deck per level. Also, every time you complete all nine goals on a level, you get another special trick slot to use at your leisure. 9 levels are included in this version, plus 3 hidden levels unlocked by beating the game a certain amount of times. Interactive pedestrians are found in each level, and sometimes you have to do something for them to fulfill a goal. Hidden tricks are now included, so you can do tricks other than those listed.

Newer Features:

All new levels in new locations

New controls with the GCN controller

Hidden Tricks

Better Graphics

Level Goals are much Better

Get Chuck Unstuck

Better Decks

More in the levels

The best TH3 yet!

The single player career mode is very easy. You have 9 goals in each level (minus competitions). 3 based on scoring, 1 trick goal based on what kind of skater your person is (vert or street), collecting SKATE, finding a hidden tape, and 3 goals concerning the level and people in the level. For each run, you have two minutes. For competitions, it's different. You have one minute to pull off the best run you can. There are five judges that judge you, and the three highest scores are averaged to get your final score. This happens for three rounds. The two highest rounds you get are added together, and the sum is your final score. Whoever has the most points wins.

Single session mode is a combination of competitions and free skate. You have two minutes to bust out the highest score you can. It's that simple. Nothing else to it. Try for a high score. Free skate mode gives you an unlimited amount of time to just explore a level. No goals, no time limit. Just you, the pedestrians, and the level. Quite simple, really.

Two-player mode has six different modes: Free skate (just like the one player mode, except for two players), Trick attack, which gives you a preset amount of time to pull off the biggest tricks, Slap, which puts you in a free-for- all duel against each other. The person to get the most slaps (the person who runs into the other person most) wins. The other three modes are Horse, which is just like the basketball game, King of the Hill, which is kind of like Slap, except for there is a crown somewhere around the level, and the person who finds it gets to keep it, but loses it when the other person runs into them. The person who has the crown for a preset amount of time first wins. The final game is Graffiti. It is kind of hard to explain, but you go up a ramp, do a trick, and land to take control of that ramp. Once you have a ramp, the only way you can lose it is if the other person does a trick that gets a better score on that ramp. The person who has the most ramps (or rails, whatever) at the end of a preset amount of time is the winner.

Tutorial mode is for the beginners. Tony himself teaches you how to play the game.!The in-game screen is very easy to learn. In the upper-left corner is your score counter and your special meter. When your special meter turns yellow (by ripping up the course) you have the opportunity to pull off sick tricks that are worth a lot of points. Also on the screen in the upper-right corner is your stance indicator. This tells you when you are in switch, nollie, or fakie stance.

So as you can tell this is an awesome game! I definetly think this is the best one yet! This is one of the most popular games in the GCN so far. I'd recommend it to everyone!

Presentation The models not only look great, but so do the levels! Nice and smooth.	9.0
Graphics The levels are nice and textured. And the small cinema scenes that you can unlock will definitely catch your eye.	8.5
Gameplay Once you've mastered the controls (which isn't hard) you've mastered the game! And the goals are fun and humorous also.	9.0
Overall This game will keep you busy as long as you own. Even after you beat the game. It's just fun to pick up and free skate. Excellent replay value!	9.0