TONY HAWK. He’s the best guy ever! Well, maybe Tom Jones is better. Hmm. But he’s still GREAT, and his games (aside from RIDE, but we’ll just forget that one…) are GREAT. And THPS2 is one of the MOST GREAT games. And now it’s on the iPhone! Amazing! Surprisingly, it works really well. Controls are great (and I generally hate virtual d-pads and buttons), and pulling off tricks isn’t any harder than I remember from the Dreamcast and PC versions. …
That makes two THPS games in two days! Got through the rest of the game without too many difficulties. Finding all five Magic Bums on Venice Beach was a bit of a pain (the fifth one eluded me – it was right where you start the level!), and the final Bull Ring competition was a close thing (I won by just 0.1 points), but aside from those there weren’t many problems. I haven’t 100%ed the whole game, and Philidelphia in …
Finished off the School II level, getting stuck on trying to find the last bit of cash (which turned out to be right at the start of the level – I just hadn’t seen it. Tch). I’m also sure that I should be able to open the gym up by grinding the Opensezme Rail, but that doesn’t seem to work. Marseilles was next, and was a competition. And very easy it was too, with me getting 96.6 and 98.4 as …
YES! LOOK! A DREAMCAST GAME! And, yes, it’s ANOTHER Tony Hawk’s game. In fact, it’s the very first one I ever played, but only (up until now) own on the PC. And it doesn’t work on Windows XP. So I had to buy it for the DC. Anyway. It’s amazing how well the graphics have aged. There’s not really much in it between this and the GC and Xbox. Unfortunately, THPS2 doesn’t have any reverts, pivots, flatlands or tweaks, making …
I’ve been eyeing this up for ages but it never really went cheap enough. Sure, I’m a fan of the series (although THPS3 is the best one), but I couldn’t bring myself to pay more than £20 for it. Then PS+ gave it away as a free rental, finally, so here we are. It’s a remake of the first two THPS games, mostly as I remember them, only in much higher resolution and with some of the music missing because …
Let me say this: BEST. GAME. EVAAR. It’s a remix of THPS1 and THPS2, with new graphics. Which is instantly awesome. It even retains some of the music from the originals. And it only cost £8-ish. And you know I like Tony Hawk games. Oh yes. It came out last Wednesday, and I’ve played it a LOT since. It’s pretty much perfect. Some people are saying it has framerate issues (it doesn’t), it’s not big enough (it’s plenty big enough …
Dead or Alive Dimensions (3DS 04/01/2012) Crysis 2 (360 14/01/2012) WarioWare, Inc.: Minigame Mania (3DS 15/01/2012) Goldeneye 007 (Wii 22/01/2012) Super Mario 3D Land (3DS 09/02/2012) Sonic Generations (360 19/02/2012) Super Mario Bros (3DS 19/02/2012) Mighty Switch Force (3DS 19/02/2012) Streetpass Quest II (3DS 29/02/2012) Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 (GC 10/03/2012) Assassin’s Creed: Revelations (360 13/03/2012) Journey (PS3 22/03/2012) Professor Layton and the Spectre’s Call (DS 07/04/2012) Fez (360 17/04/2012) Mario Kart: Super Circuit (3DS 28/04/2012) Mega-lo-Mania (MD 29/04/2012) …
Let’s pretend that Ride and Shred never existed, yes? Because, really, they didn’t. It was all a horrible, horrible dream. Now that we have erased them from all of time, let us instead look at Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD – the second best thing that could ever happen(*). A remake of levels from THPS games, in HD. On XBLA. Yes. NEED. * The best thing would be a 3DS compilation of THPS1-4, but this’ll do for now.
I’ve been tracking which games I play, on my Gaming Diary, for 6 years now. It’s helped me realise how many different games I play, and how many I complete. This year, however, I’ve additionally started tracking the games I buy, and how much I paid for them – the aim being to scare myself into how much I spend on gaming. Thing is, just knowing that it’s logged has actually made me more frugal with my spending. Not only …
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (N-Gage 07/01/2006) Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 (GBA 21/01/2006) Mawashite Koron (DS 22/01/2006) Tony Hawk’s Underground (GBA 02/02/2006) Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox 04/02/2006) Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 (GBA 10/02/2006) Tony Hawk’s American Sk8land (GBA 13/02/2006) Mario vs Donkey Kong (GBA 16/02/2006) Super Mario Ball (GBA 18/02/2006) Tony Hawk’s Skateboarding (DC 04/03/2006) Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (DC 05/03/2006) Mr. Driller (WS 19/03/2006) Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (GC 25/03/2006) XIII (Mobile 29/03/2006) Hexic HD …
Well, the BMX bit was easy. Like, really easy. In fact, I did it by accident. My memory clear isn’t right. Anyway, with that out of the way, and Boone rescued from the drainage pipe he was stuck in, it was off round all the locations to convince all the pro skaters to be in my video. A couple of them were a pain (like the Collect the Shoes one), but nothing too difficult. Off to the Casino next!
Doomed. I’m doomed. Completely. If having Viva Pinata wasn’t addiction enough, having not one but two new Tony Hawk games (and a third is out on the Wii in less than three weeks) is just going to cause me to apply for treatment in a clinic somewhere. So I put this on. Two hours later, I was still completely ignoring most of the goals and missions, and was instead just messing around, and doing that Tony Hawk favourite: “Take Your …
Oh no! I thought I’d kicked the habit after my Tony Hawk-a-thon in the beginning half of the year. This was mainly due to the there not actually being any Tony Hawk games left for me to play (well, besides the awful GBC games which are nothing like the “real” versions, so they don’t count). And now look what was on the Xbox Live Marketplace! So, Project 8 then. The demo is a bit restrictive (in time, area, and goals), …
