When Activision first announced that Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 was getting the full remake treatment, there was this quiet tension hanging in the air. Could they really pull it off again? After the wild success of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2, fans were hungry for more but also wary. The third and fourth entries in the series hold a particular place in skateboarding game history. They’re where the series truly found its groove: tighter controls, more sprawling and complex levels, bigger trick lists, and the wild sense of freedom that later titles only tried to imitate.
Now that the demo for THPS 3+4 is out in the wild, and after spending time with it grinding rails, flipping decks, and basking in every pixel of nostalgia, not to mention bailing a bunch, it feels safe to say that the magic is back. Not just intact but refined, tightened, and respectfully evolved.
The demo drops players into Foundry, the industrial opening level from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3, and within... Read more