The depth and breadth of detail given to the grimy garages, scuffed playgrounds and filthy alleys is breathtaking, and it really hammers home just how expansive those levels were in the first place. Then the title screen starts rolling, and yes, “Superman” by Goldfinger is the first song you hear as the virtual camera follows a skateboard at ground level.Īll the levels you remember from the first two games are here, in painstaking detail for the current-gen consoles. When you fire up the game, the unfiltered nostalgia hits you full force with a video mixtape of the skaters featured in the game, set to Rage Against the Machine and fully preparing your entire body to jump off a building.
I’m relieved and thrilled to tell you it was well worth the wait. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, a remastered, high-definition recreation of the first two games, lands on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC on Friday. Those calls have gotten louder each year, and now those pleas have finally, mercifully been answered. Video game fans have decried what has become of the franchise for more than a decade now, hoping the franchise returns to the simplicity of the original game. It’s vitally important to me, and I know I’m not the only one who feels that way. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 might be the most cumulative time I’ve logged in my lifetime playing video games - and I played World of Warcraft for several years. I didn’t rank every song on the original games’ soundtracks for nothing, you know.
Not to get too deep in the weeds on the value of art and storytelling, but I’d happily argue its merits for being a perfect video game, period. From 1999 to about 2003 (give or take, depending on your opinion of the two Tony Hawk’s Underground games), Activision and Neversoft created and then refined arguably the perfect sports video game franchise, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater.
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