Gamebro.biz.id - At one point, the people who made the Switch 2 thought about naming it the Super Nintendo Switch. They opted against it, though, because it could play original Switch games, while the Super NES from 1990 couldn't play games from the NES from 1983. I played with it all weekend and think the Switch Pro is a better moniker. It's more like a modernized and improved version of the original system than a whole new generation. The bigger screen and faster processor are the most visible improvements, but every part of the system is better. The larger Joy-Cons seem stronger and are easier to operate. I like how they magnetically clip onto the console. The user interface is a graceful but somewhat monotonous version of the Switch's, with mild haptic feedback and nice little sounds that make it feel like you're playing. Some people might be upset that the Switch OLED model goes back to a regular LCD screen, but the quality is good and the extra screen spac...
Gamebro.biz.id - It's almost disrespectful how readily this version of a skate game makes me feel nostalgic for my childhood. The second I hear "Ace of Spades" over a montage of skaters on the title screen, I'm taken back to the early 2000s, when I spent countless hours playing one Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game or another in the dirty bedrooms of my teenage pals. I can still smell the strong smell of Lynx body spray more than 20 years later.
The first several Tony Hawk games were refined and re-released in 2020, when the first wave of Y2K nostalgia hit. The two games were packaged together as one, with the same controls and a new look that kept the grungy feel of the originals. The same is true for 3+4: levels, skaters, and parks from both 2001's THPS3 and 2002's THPS4 are here, along with newer stars of the sport (including Riley Hawk, son of the famous skating celebrity – I found this strangely touching).
The factory, the college campus, the Canadian skate park covered in snow, and the time capsule of central London are all locations I remember very well. Strangely, the zoo level is now empty of animals (why?), but other than that, these small, grindable, and trickable urban obstacle courses are just like they were. Unfortunately, the skater-punk soundtrack isn't the same as it used to be; there are a lot of missing songs, which is disappointing but only somewhat made up for by the new songs. You may do crazy and dangerous combos all around their world by grabbing, spinning, flipping, and using manuals. You can even slide along power lines, walls, and find hidden half-pipes.
But I don't remember it all being this hard. The first few hours I played these games were humiliating since I couldn't figure out how to use the controller and was falling over and over again trying to get the lowest scores in each two-minute run. Was I always as awful at these kinds of games? I don't have any muscle memory left, but I'm progressively getting better at virtual skating. This game has more complicated movements and traversal tricks to remember than Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2, which is more like an arcade game. If you weren't present for these games the first time, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 is a better place to start.
It's all about sticking with it and doing it over and over again. When the combos started to flow again for me after a few hours, it felt so good. I still don't think there's a finer skating game than Tony Hawk's from back in the day, and there's definitely no greater time capsule of this important time in the sport's history.
The release date for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 is July 11. It will cost £39.99.
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