{"id":1435543,"date":"2025-12-22T14:36:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gCaBVnbktjY5bzqZA3odGD"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:36:15","slug":"skateboarding-games-had-a-huge-2025-but-it-was-the-controversial-tony-hawks-pro-skater-3-4-that-i-couldnt-put-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/skateboarding-games-had-a-huge-2025-but-it-was-the-controversial-tony-hawks-pro-skater-3-4-that-i-couldnt-put-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarding games had a huge 2025, but it was the controversial Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater 3 + 4 that I couldn&#8217;t put down"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Personal Pick<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' >\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"UexTwwqoCAUREXUdsqBA8Q\" name=\"1920x1080 Banner\" caption=\"\" alt=\"Game of the Year 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skateboarding-games-had-a-huge-2025-but-it-was-the-controversial-tony-hawks-pro-skater-3-4-that-i-couldnt-put-down.png\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"pinterest-pin-exclude\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Future)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\">In addition to our main <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/pc-gamers-game-of-the-year-awards-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\">Game of the Year Awards 2025<\/a>, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We&#8217;ll post new personal picks each day throughout the rest of the month. You can find <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/tag\/goty-2025\/\">them all here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I submit that there&#8217;s no greater feeling in videogames than finally figuring out how to enjoy a series that once eluded you. Liking games is a skill that you can get better at, and my big skill check of 2025 was learning to love Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater 3 + 4.<\/p>\n<p>A copy of the latest Tony Hawk remake fell into my lap because, well, few others at PC Gamer were interested. THPS was once among the biggest series of the late &#8217;90s and early aughts, but their legacy doesn&#8217;t carry as much weight in PC gaming. Nor does it for me: The sole Tony Hawk I owned back in the day was THUG 2, the 2004 successor series to Pro Skater that let you get off the board and run around (which is what I ended up doing most of the time).<\/p>\n<p>No, instead I was an annoying Skate fan who preferred to kickflip with the right stick and insisted Tony Hawk was too arcadey or unrealistic. How&#8217;s it feel to be a mega wrong dummy, teen Morgan?<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to catch up: Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater is divine. It might be the perfect sports game and also the perfect driving game. You&#8217;re a dude standing on plywood, but you&#8217;re also an acrobatic vehicle of wicked speeds who can jump, grind, slide, and turn on a dime.<\/p>\n<p>From the outside I assumed THPS was a mindless score-chaser, but that&#8217;s because I was too dumb to notice it&#8217;s also a scavenger hunt, a racing game, and a platformer all in one. It&#8217;s casual fun that slowly bleeds into a raw hunt for efficiency. And it does so while showing just as much reverence for the hobby as the grounded Skate games I obsessed over in the late 2000s.<\/p>\n<div class=\"looped-video\"><video class=\"lazyload-in-view lazyloading\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/VDfXf8tu9FdmFw7voerPX\/Tony%20Hawk's%E2%84%A2%20Pro%20Skater%E2%84%A2%203%20+%204%20-%202025-12-18%2011-18-20%20AM.mp4\" autoplay loop muted playsinline src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/VDfXf8tu9FdmFw7voerPX\/Tony%20Hawk's%E2%84%A2%20Pro%20Skater%E2%84%A2%203%20+%204%20-%202025-12-18%2011-18-20%20AM.mp4\"><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Sure, THPS physics are exaggerated and one level involves demolishing a Los Angeles highway people are actively driving on, but the goal never wavers from the pursuit of geographic mastery through two minute sessions\u2014the pure gratification of rolling into a foreign place and unlocking its secrets through improbable flip tricks and sickass grinds.<\/p>\n<p>One nice thing about jumping straight into the 3 + 4 remake having not played much of the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/tony-hawks-pro-skater-1-2-review\/\">1 + 2 remake from 2020<\/a> is experiencing this series at the height of Neversoft&#8217;s powers. Every elevated curb, every high drop, every camouflaged line is so thoughtfully considered and nestled into the scenery.<\/p>\n<p>It would&#8217;ve been easier to make X Games-style skate parks with wooden ramps and imported rails, but 3 + 4&#8217;s playgrounds\u2014recreated by Iron Galaxy with a loving brush\u2014are seamlessly carved into city streets, a college campus, an airport, and literal Alcatraz Island. There isn&#8217;t a single map in the package I dislike, though I never returned to the &#8220;competition&#8221; maps that trade goals for simpler score chasing.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"ub3bf7ygNvWME8G6gnDQ8b\" name=\"image (3)\" alt=\"tony hawk's pro skater 3 + 4\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/skateboarding-games-had-a-huge-2025-but-it-was-the-controversial-tony-hawks-pro-skater-3-4-that-i-couldnt-put-down-1.png\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">Mods are fun. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Activision Blizzard)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I know this particular remake chafed fans of the original THPS 4 by tossing out its open world structure and screwing with old maps. I hear you and your complaints are valid: It is weird that Iron Galaxy opted for forced timers on maps that didn&#8217;t have them before and got rid of interactable NPCs altogether in THPS 4. The explanations for the changes were kinda weak, and in the end it was probably a call made to speed up development, but now I want to pick up a copy of the original THPS 4 to see what I&#8217;m missing.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I assumed THPS was a mindless score-chaser, but that&#8217;s because I was too dumb to notice it&#8217;s also a scavenger hunt, a racing game, and a platformer all in one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>That said, the reworked levels play very well, and I particularly love the new maps Iron Galaxy added to the package. Waterpark is so colorful and dynamic and dense that I assumed it was a Neversoft original before my friend set me straight, and the (minor spoiler) pinball machine level unlocked at the end of the THPS 4 career is a delightfully absurd coda.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the arrival of the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/sports\/the-new-skate-feels-like-it-was-made-by-people-in-suits-rather-than-people-with-skateboards\/\">Skate<\/a> reboot <em>and<\/em> the standout indie <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/sports\/skate-story-review\/\">Skate Story<\/a>, 2025 turned into an unexpectedly triumphant year for virtual skating. Yet, Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater 3 + 4&#8217;s controversial alterations led to it getting largely ignored back in July.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a shame, because it carried forward the excellent work Vicarious Visions started with the 1 + 2 remake in 2020\u2014excellent animations, a great updated soundtrack, and modernized graphics that are more concerned with performance and vibes than realism. It&#8217;s what Pro Skater would play and look like in 2025 if Activision had never abandoned the series.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re grumpy about the changes, I won&#8217;t try to change your mind. But if you&#8217;re like me and missed out on the Tony Hawk fun back in the day, this is an excellent on ramp.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/sports\/skateboarding-games-had-a-huge-2025-but-it-was-the-controversial-tony-hawks-pro-skater-3-4-that-i-couldnt-put-down\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2025, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We&#8217;ll post new personal picks each day throughout the rest of the month. You can find them all here. I submit that there&#8217;s no greater feeling in videogames than finally figuring out how to enjoy a series that once eluded you. Liking games is a skill that you can get better at, and my big skill check of 2025 was learning to love Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater 3 + 4. 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