If I listened to it now, I'd probably love it and say it was the best thing going, but I definitely had a strong love of the original Tony Hawk 1 soundtrack, and that definitely clouded my judgement.Īlso, it really must be said: if THPS3 were on Sega Dreamcast, I would have loved it a lot more.

I didn't care for it as much, and I really can't remember any of the songs right now apart from Motorhead. Needless to say, that became extremely boring for me, enough that I would deliberately create my own monster-sized skater just so that I could skate counter-clockwise and knock them down over and over until I got kicked off the server. They wouldn't touch any other part of any stage, but would just grind along clockwise around the outer perimeter. Indeed, whenever I played online, that's all the other kids wanted to do. There is one big issue that irritated me, and this is probably the fault of the online players more than anything: you can just skate along the perimeter endlessly. I think the stage designs were excellent, much larger and more expansive and trying to capture real world environments like ocean liners and airports. So maybe I had a personal bias in that regard. I personally found this less fun than working the big combos on the half pipes-indeed, I scored gold medals at the Bullring in Tony Hawk 2 just working the half pipe. While the new additions were very good, particularly the idea that you could create one massive infinite combo that lasts your entire run (at least, in theory), I felt that the balance between 'vert' and 'street' skating that was so perfect in Tony Hawk 2 had tipped over decisively in favor of street skating and endless grind combos. My experience with playing online wasn't very much fun, and I think it soured me on the game overall. I didn't play it on consoles but played the PC version a couple years after it was released. You make very good points, and there's no question THPS3 is a great videogame.

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