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Show me something new

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 44
Date: September 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I went to the E3 game show and played Hawk 3 for about an hour. It's the same game as the last two. Ride around and pick up the SKATE letters and the floaty video tapes. They really need to do something new with the game. If you don't add in a bunch of new gameplay and features (which they didn't), version 3 of anything gets stale....

A kick in the teeth

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

THPS2 was fun. The levels made sense, the physics were completely unreal (fun) and the locations had some sort of skatepark or something interesting going on. The locations in THPS3 are lacking. A few are fun, but the majority are chaotic and seem to be designed purely with aggravation in mind. The airport is a great example. The physics have changed for the worse. You feel like your controlling a big sack of lead, and you will fall constantly. The controls are not configurable, and the setup for doing tricks is more a game of hitting things in the correct sequence than any sort of creative use of the terrain. On the technical side, this is one of two PS2 games I've seen crash. Shipping a game that crashes is totally unacceptable, but this level of workmanship seems to be a major theme in THPS3. Overall I'm pretty annoyed with my purchase, and would recommend staying away from this title. Don't even waste your money on a rental. Hopefully some developer as talented as the SSX people will come out with a good skater.

Activision, please don't release a 4th one!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game stinks. The graphics aren't that great and the control is terrible, making it hard to play. Activision should make a new game, instead of concentrating on Tony Hawk this, Tony Hawk that. Tony Hawk 1 and 2 are more enjoyable.

Make A New Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: November 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

All I have to say to Activision is: MAKE A NEW GAME. This is no different than the first or second one, with the exception of new levels, which are basically the same as the last two game's levels. And there's online play. Well big deal. It's not like too many people go online with their Ps2 anyways. I don't see how they keep getting away with re-releasing the same game with a different number at the end of the title. Would it be too hard to just grasp a new concept. And I'm not talking about Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder. Activision needs to use that little creative portion of their brain. So I will leave you at where i began with: MAKE A NEW GAME.

Stick with THPS2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Of course being a fan of THPS1&2 I got THPS3......... big mistake. I should have known that scince tony hawk2 was MUCH harder(but still possible) that tony hawk1, that tony hawk3 would have been way too hard. I do not recommend this game to anyone!!! They have these stupid missions that will get you frustrated off your ... and you will have the game on mute all the time because it has a soundtrack that nobody can enjoy AT ALL. I literally threw this game away, please take my word into consideration.

Very Suprised - Very Disapointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: February 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I would have to say i was disapointed after playing Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3. I have the second one and i love it. The grafiucs are good, music is fine, bla bla bla. But the game is just flat out hard. It has stupid, nearly impossible missions and tasks. The tricks you could do in the second were totally different. Its a good game for people who have the patience and the devotion to constantly work on a game to beat the first few levels. I think people just gave it 4s and 5s because they don't want to sound like Pu**ies for not being able to do anything. My friends and I all gave it a 2 out of 5. We'll stick to Grand Theft Auto 3.. Now theres some fun right there...

Yoko Ono

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I think the graphics are improved from Tony Hawk 2 but not too significantly. I think Tony Hawk 2 was a more fun game to play than Tony Hawk 3, the levels on the 2nd one are better and the ramps are laid out better to get huge amounts of points. I wish I hadn't bought the 3rd one without renting it first.

Why do they have to add trash...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: November 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game IS good, but it has a lot of unnessesary garbage (people peeing off buildings, bad language) that makes it not good for kids.

Not for PC!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The game is great, the graphics rock and when you make your own skater he or she looks very real. And you can make girl skaters, there ok and they some work, like they can be a little (a lot) hotter! And most of all it's not for PC if they make it for PC to well lets just say a lot more $$$$.

Rent It Before You Buy It

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is very similar to the first two games in the tony hawk series. However, i found that this game lacked some seriously needed things. for example there is no gaps checklist in this game. I thought that that was a very cool feature in tony hawk 2 which added more life to the game, but for some reason they did not include that into the game. they also changed the cheats section. instead of getting a new cheat everytime you beat it with another character, like in THPS2, you have to enter codes to get cheats instead. I found that the games combos get way too unrealistic. while the other 2 THPS were fairly unrealistic, the combos needed to get the high scores in THPS3 are just rediculous.
Overal I thought this game was okay, it has some promise(it's better than the first one but not as good as the second). i have not yet been able to take advantage of the online gameplay, hopefully that will be cool. unless you are a diehard tony hawk's pro skater fan,like me, I recomend you rent it first. there's no way you can beat the whole game in 5 days, unless you play it all day. make sure it lives up to your standards and all the "hype". so if you like it buy it. if it turns out to be a disapointmet and you don't like it enough to buy it, you just saved yourself (...). =) the end

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