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THE MOST ORIGINAL AND TECHNICALLY SUPERIOR HAWK, YET? I'D HAVE TO DISAGREE |
 Arend D. Hart from Michigan says (20/Nov/2002): |
Personally, I've loved the THPS series since day one, but I think I'm a bit burned out by it now.
Ok for the good - it's a THPS game. We know how fun they are, we know the graphics, new goals system, etc...it's a great game.
Now, the Bad:
I've been playing THPS4, but it hasn't been as exciting as I would have hoped.
First, Neversoft is getting kudos for the new goals system (meeting people and receiving goals). Um...the same system Acclaim has been using in Dave Mirra (and perfected in the recent Aggressive Inline) for a couple of years. Sure, it makes THPS better, but they aren't doing anything new.
And, some of the new goals seem kinda pasted in without having much debugging. For instance, in San Francisco, you get a goal of getting a medal in a competition. The competition's ramps and rails magically appear overtop of the existing scenery. The problem is, it's like they messed up in the coding, and the programming gets confused by this graphical overlay. Go try a lip trick on 90% of the newly appeared ramps and one of two things will happen: Either you'll just not do a lip trick at all (no matter how hard or often you press triangle), or you'll suddenly be planting in the center of the transition with your hand passing through the decking (I surmise you are planting off the original scenery). This sucks when you're a grinder/planter like I am and you can't pull off the easiest of the combo builders, making it had to medal any more than Bronze.
Finally, the spine transfer really is lame. I know the designer's intent, but it comes off as another aggravating addition which only serves to make the game easier, yet more difficult. It used to be that the R1 and L1 buttons were for quarter-spins, and the R2 and L2 were for half-turns. Do R1 and R2 together and you spin faster. We all know this. NOW, if you hit R2 or L2 accidentally(which happens often when you're used to the old control scheme), you end up automatically transitioning out of the ramp (mid trick) with no way to counteract. Then, to top it off, the spine transfer animation is so jerky, it almost makes you disoriented. Even the first Dave Mirra title made spine transfers more exciting, better looking and easier to manage than this. Hell, I seldom had a problem transitioning on the old THPS games, so why change it now...to make it even easier? Oh, and you can use this to save yourself if you accidentally launch off the side of a ramp. Hmmmm.... One less thing that always made the game more challenging. Now the only excitement is timing the spine transfer so it doesn't conflict with the revert you need to pull to keep the combo going.
All in all, I can't really complain about this game in the big picture. It still is the best boarder game out there. But to say it's a 10 for its originality and technical merit just isn't right.
I just picked up Aggressive Inline last week at EB for $20 (new), and saw it in the bargain bin at Target for $15 yesterday. I'd suggest you pick up Aggressive Inline and play that out while you wait for THPS4 to go to Greatest Hits. I mean, I like THPS4 quite a bit, but I can't help feeling depressed about spending $50 on it.
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crazy |
| nolan from omaha NE usa says (23/Nov/2004): |
This is the best thps game i'v play'd yet i cant beleive they came out with all this new stuff you can do the really good thing is that your not timed.Sure the game is kinda short, i beat it on every skill but i guise it deppends on what skill your on. some of the combos were hard as hell but fun hell. some of the things were very unreal.but its the best game. my commets on the game are high, but like i said somthings are just to fake like pullin a 1540. people I think you should buy this game, youl never get BOARD OF IT.
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its cool. |
| Jeffrey Souders from San Jose, California says (1/Apr/2004): |
i like it. it is hard, but once you get used to the controls it is easier. some of the goals are just stupid and impossible. the cheats make it a lot easier, but than it is to easy to beat the game. the levels are really cool and so are the players u can create. i like that u can change the skaters clothes style. overall, it is a really cool game,but frustrating at points. but when you create oyur own park it isnt very good, infact u cant make it very good at all. so just stick with the already made parks.
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2:00 min goal runs have been phucked off :) |
| Christian Hossoi from state pen. USA says (21/Jan/2004): |
the biggest and most important difference in this version is the free skating goal system (as every one has mentioned). That alone is worth dumping old versions of the game. The other is the revert manuals out of pipes to continue your combos. Very easy to get 800 000 + combos now. Spine transfers wich doubles as a safe exit when you accidentally leave sideways out of a pipe. C-O-M-B-O letter goals are a lot of fun and forces newbies to get creative with combos. Great level design. All together greater veriety and possibilities then previous versions. Only bad thing is not enough nudity, not enough ass slappin and definately not enough asian prostitutes!!!
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tonyhawk rules |
| dude from valley says (30/Dec/2003): |
to all of you dissing tony hawk4 is and ass and yall all kiss ass i`ve allready bet the game and it was hard but it dont suppose to be easy da..and if yall had enought time to sit down and get in the game yall would relise it is the best game yet but i do got to amet that tony halk underground does suck.the only thing about it is you can put your photo on your player. thats cool and allso you can go to the old stages on tony halk two or three i forgot which one.
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Best Tony Hawk game ever! |
| Blaine Farrell from Houston Texas says (21/Nov/2003): |
Whoever said the music in this game seriously has way to much time on thier hands...or in thier hands,anyway I think this one of the greatest genres in the world i'm already a Tony vet and I know my games and this is by far the most addicting game out there today so all you haters need to jump on the wagon cuz' Tony is here to stay
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BEST GAME EVER |
| Killer aka Tyler from West Virginia,United States says (6/Nov/2003): |
The only problem is that the game is really easy to beat. Online play is the best on the planet...i use aol dial up and its compatable with it too...my network name is Killer if any of u have it online...theres a new tony hawk game that has came its called THUG (tony hawks underground) its not as good at THPS4 but i give it a 10 out of 10 on THUG u get old levels off of THPS2 (school 2,venice,and hangar). On THUG u can make your own levels (like THPS4), tricks, decks, skater (like THPS4) and alot more features. On THUG theres 14 skaters 4 secret ones. 12 levels.I give THPS4 if there was a 50/50 i would give it that but THUG i give about a 47/50 if possible. I recommend both games. If you get THUG don't bother buying THPS2 if you dont already have it
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tony hawks underground is the best game ever f all the that say otherwise |
| ZERO KID says (4/Nov/2003): |
tony hawks underground or bust fagits. dont even try and front on the new $#< remove me > at !. you can almost do anything that u want and the tricks are the best and it dosnt look as fake it has "style". if enyone out there has played this game and thinks the same give me an e mail and we will talk. it is like you are playing in real life because you have to work your way up tp the top. it is a little challenge but if you arnt a loser you can do it simple. PEACE
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Best F***in Game Ever!!! |
| Bodie Anderson from Woodstock,Ga,USA says (4/Oct/2003): |
good graphics,awsome goals,NO TIME LIMIT in carrer mode Ten Out Of Ten thats my vote.It truly has to be the best game in the T.H.P.S series so far.The third was ok for PS2 but it cant tuch the forth.But keep your eyes open for Tony Hawks underground.
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Ok, but this isn't what i was waiting of THPS4. |
| Brad Felizardo from Luanda, Angola says (16/Sep/2003): |
One more disappointing version of a great PS2 game. Ok, it's PS2 again, and off course the graphics are great, but just talking about graphics i can say the first bad thing: What tha hell are those levels? I think that only the first 2 levels are great, and Kona, the rest completely sucks, a lot of old iron stages, they didn't know how to explore well the PS2 capacity of graphics, sincerly i prefer the THPS2 stages, you all remember those great stages like the beach (I think that a beach in THPS4 should fit, why they didn't made it? Something like Miami should go...). Also, this game will not give you fun for so much time, there isn't too much (i mean... real stuff!) to buy. In THPS2 the tricks where purchased and also it had great styles of boards and clothes, in this one they give you all the most important tricks at the beginnin', you'll be passing and winning trough the stages and you'll realise that new tricks aren't coming, and you'll say: "-Damn! I can't belive this is all that this game have to give us!" But belive it, it is all. The boards are the worst, even Tony's boards, and too much "humoristic like" boards, and others with no sense or good design at all. Talking about sense, Neversoft puts too much things of their own in the game, like their movies and things like that, is it right to get big money making the objectives and just to buy movies of them? Arght.
At last, there are some good points like the cool guys of the game like that drunk man, and 35 sound tracks, at the beginning the music appears to suck, but no, they're cool, and the objecives are fun and great too, just poor when it comes to objectives of competition.
About the Custom Skaters and Skaters, man, when do they learn that most of people love to do "really custom" skaters? Look, the cool shoes are all of the real 12 skaters, and it's impossible to at last change their color! Also, there isn't even one beautiful woman custom face, just check them well, they're all not cute (well, the glasses should do...).
Hey guys, and just check out Elissa Steamer's face in 3D that Neversoft did, arggghttt! Is that Elissa Steamer? Hahaha, if they really want to make the game look great, they have to be more serious when making them, that's for sure. I'm waiting for MTV Skateboarding on PS2.
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a decent game |
| oz from London, England says (15/Sep/2003): |
This game is really really really good but! it could be improved which i see they have done with Tony Hawks Underground (the sequal to this game if u didnt no). But the idea of having no time limit on riding around the level and u can just ride into each mission. The missions are well good like the new combo idea which really brings a new level of difficulty to the game. The other three have been a slit dissapointmeant as they r so easy.
Overall i would recomend this game to any1 who enjoyed the previous games and look out for T.H.U.G. (its short for tony hawks underground see wat they done there thug!! get it?)
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It kicks butt, Like, Totally. |
| Gus from Didcot near Oxford, UK says (4/Sep/2003): |
The game is above all the others, the new missions format rules, even if acclaim already has it. Even if it is unrealistic, it would be no fun if it was realistic! -Just like the Realistic mode cheat says- it takes the fun away! Me and most of my friends skate. We have been for ages! In the Tony Hawk's series we are able to do all the tricks and combos that we would love to do in real life, but are humanly impossible. It's what you do when raining and you can't go out and skate! Other than that, i guess there are a few bugs, the replay is slightly dissapointing, but the awesome music, challenges, skateshop and graphics such as the scabs and disappearing deck graphics make this game a gem that everyone should get.
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this is my first THPS game i've ever played... |
| Kori Lynn from DeKalb, Illinois says (8/Aug/2003): |
after i played this one, i played the third one too, and i only played cuz i heard Bam Margera was in it! It turned out the game was ok. nothing to really marvel over. the graphics rocked, but some of the missions were kinda hard. It's good to just rent every once in a while...its not worth going out and buying it....
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could be better |
| nick from co springs, usa says (10/Jul/2003): |
i donno the tony hawk games are not as fun any more. the games are the same. i like the roming and no time limit and those thing but the games not that fun. the over all ame play is fin but i dilike the lack of realisem and that stuff. grinding logs. come one.
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the best tony hawk games yet. |
| kyle from calgary says (6/Jul/2003): |
this game rocks i love it you can be all kinds of skate boarders.The boards rock i love them i wish i had a skate board like theres if u play this game youll never stop.Rent it and buy it youll love it 1 of my top 5 best sport games ever.
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The Best yet |
| Craig from Edinburgh, Scotland says (6/Jul/2003): |
I am sorry but most of the people who wrote these revieews must be deaf. The Music is the best yet. I found that spine transfers were Impossible until now. The goals are only easy because A you have cheats on or B because you play it so often that you are already good at It. If so do what it says on the credits and get out and go skate for real! ten out of ten easy.
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sweetish summary on thps4 |
| Julian Padilla or "JP" from Tucson AZ , united states of america says (11/Jun/2003): |
yeah, this game was really good... but, you need more tricks, like salads shouldnt be a special, and you need tricks like easy flips, big heels, big flips, frontside flips, backside flips, like, they should have the right names, not nollie+kickflip, but nollieflip, know what i mean. ARTO SAARI!!!! put him in the game dude, everyone will buy it if artos in it. or pj ladd, that guy rocks too, maybe one of the black label riders, like ben gilley... yeah, thatd be sick dude, that guy rocks at handrails (i.e. front 5.0 el torro, what was he thinkning?)anyways, yeah dude, it was good, but put newer tricks and some other skateboarders. oh yeah, and fix the nollie tricks, if you dont know what i mean, go try to do a nollie tre flip.
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agree with Hart |
| killer koffee from Guatemala says (30/Apr/2003): |
The game really has some debugging issues, one especially that ive noticed from the first thps and has been in all thps wich is that if a vert ramp or a realy long and curvy quarter pipe u follow it, thats weird. and you can ollie higher than the characters height but it looks strange. but i liked most of the other stuff music and graphics. its just the debugging they have to work out. also if you get to close to the wall and you move the camera very close to the person you can see through them and thats hoow i discovered that daisy had stars on her tits origanilly.
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The best game ever made! |
| Ben W. from Conesville,Ohio,USA says (22/Apr/2003): |
Ok I have one thing to say. Get off the computer right know and get this game! This is the best THPS game to date. The Graphics are nearly perfect(ecspecally how it shows the scrapes on the skaters elbows and kness and how the board graphic is scraped of after boardsliding)The best part about this game is the new goal system. this makes the game alot better than the first 3 games. its way better to be able to roam the levels freely and tackle goals as you are ready.The levels a are so much better and so much bigger. the network adapter is a must have if you own this game. I have 100% of the game done but i still play online everyday because of beeing able to interact and compare your skills to everyone elses. Get this game.
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tony hawks pro skater 4 |
| mitchell syer from ontario, canada says (9/Apr/2003): |
this game is amazing ...i love the way they made career mode..you get to interact with the other pro's and do little missions for them. it makes the game a lot more enjoyable ...and the way you can spend you earning money is also a great quality! all in all id say this game is one of the best iv played...and believe me....iv played and i own almost every game and sytem to come out!
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