On the controller, this entails quickly pushing the down and up digital direction buttons and then switching to the analogue stick to control your balance. Screen grab from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 Ironically, it was one I could actually execute in real life, but failed miserably at pulling off virtually: The manual. So too did swapping around skateboard decks.īut when it came to the actual skating action, I found myself cruelly hobbled by my inability to wrap my mind around one fundamental move. Playing as a variety of skaters with their own skill sets seemed like quite the adventure to me. I primarily enjoyed the idea of a skateboarding simulator in which you could actually do tricks, considering my own real-world experience with that sort of stuff had been beyond woeful.

With the likes of Anthrax, Sublime, Rage Against The Machine and Goldfinger already on my playlist - which for me, at the time, existed on audio cassette - the soundtrack didn’t really blow me away the way it did so many others. It was back in 2000 when I was just coming to terms with the original PlayStation’s DualShock controller that I first ran into THPS and its follow-up THPS 2. Before we break this possibly backhanded ( you’ll have to stick around to find out for sure) compliment down, it behoves me to elaborate on my opening line. And the most succinct way to sum up this package would be that for better or worse, it remains a solid, no-frills, arcadey skateboarding game. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, we’re almost ready to acid drop right into the half-pipe of my thoughts on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 on the PlayStation 5. I didn’t care very much for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater ( THPS) or its follow-up Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 back when I first played them around two decades ago.

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