- Expanded career mode.
- Skich on the back of a car.
- Skate through traffic.
- Tons of new environments.
- Single- and multi-player modes.
- Online-compatible (requires broadband connection and Network Adapter).
Product Description
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The world's best skateboarding game reinvents itself to give
users the real-life experience of a hardened amateur skater. A
completely new, non-linear career mode lets you choose the goals
you want to accomplish: challenge pros head-to-head to beat their
best tricks, take off to a competition or just skate solo to
conquer a gap. Make your way through the game as an amateur and
then conquer your pro's special challenge to unlock the more
difficult professional world. Evolving levels change depending on
the specific skater's goals and accomplishments--toggle different
skate elements on and off (quarter pipes, benches, kickers) to
change up lines. The newly upgraded Ultimate Skatepark editor
allows user-set objectives such as high scores, hidden tapes and
combo completion. You can create a dream park and give it to a
friend to session. Skate as Tony Hawk or one of 12 other top
pros. Improved skater physics and animations now allow skating on
moving objects such as cars, trucks or cranes. New improvements
also include more realistic balancing, bails and board dynamics.
The game also has a comprehensive online feature in which up to
eight players from across Europe can go head-to-head in new
multi-player modes such as Goal Attack and Capture the .
.co.uk Review
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Just in case you didn't know, the Tony Hawk's series is the best
skateboarding sim ever--and now, with the release of Tony Hawk's
Pro Skater 4, it's even more so. Skateboarding is taken far more
seriously nowadays, with legions of baggily trousered youths now
able to refer to moves such as a bluntside or overcrook with a
perfectly straight face. Indeed, the list of silly names for
ridiculously dangerous stunts has been increased for this latest
sequel and you now have the added ability to skitch (hold onto
the back of a moving car) and grind through traffic. The big new
change, though, is the career mode, which now has specific goals
and milestones for all the different skaters and really adds to
the replayability.
Curiously, the graphics are still not particularly good, with
the same slightly muddy, undefined look to them that the
developers presumably now think is all part of the fun. They have
however thankfully realised that having time limits for the
levels was an unnecessary limitation and, except for a few
specific missions, you've now got all the time in the world to
graze your knees and cave in your skull. Add in a new and
improved online mode and you've got everything the discerning
extreme sportsman could desire. --David Jenkins
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"In terms of exciting, entertaining and satisfying gameplay Tony
Hawk's 4 just about has the upper hand. 9/10." -- Computer and
Video Games Magazine
"Is it worth buying if you've played a Tony Hawk's game before?
Eminently." -- Edge
"One of the most rewarding PS2 titles around. Not just a
sequel--it feels like a new game. 9/10." -- Official PlayStation
2 Magazine
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