These combos can be increased by using your special moves, which can be activated once you’ve filled up your special meter. A game where you can skate through Roswell and kickflip past a UFO unsurprisingly doesn’t care too much about emulating real-world physics, so while the tricks you can pull off are the same as the pros’, the tremendous speed and momentum you can gain allows you to pull off ludicrous moves and ridiculous combos. Like its predecessors, THPS 1+2 also isn’t concerned about realism. However, you don’t necessarily need to be good at THPS 1+2 to enjoy it - this is a game that is mindful of its more “casual” players, allowing them to enable a bunch of game mods such as perfect rail, manual, and lip balance to make things easier. There’s nothing more satisfying than chaining together special moves across the entirety of a park, watching your combo meter fill up as you fling your skater from halfpipe to rail, seeing through the Matrix as you start to notice how certain objects and surfaces in a park can be used to maximize your score. Old parks like Warehouse and School have the same layout as they did back in the day, though they look distinctly better than their 19 counterparts, and more fluid gameplay makes them even more of a joy to zip around in 2020. Gone are the blocky polygonal skaters and foggy draw distances, replaced by colorful and well-lit arenas, 4K visuals, and a frame rate of up to 144 FPS on PC. Playing THPS 1+2 is like replaying the old Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games but as you remember them with the benefit of rose-tinted glasses.
But rather than giving these old classics a mere fresh lick of paint a la Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, developer Vicarious Visions has brought the series up to date, making it a more exhilarating experience than ever before. THPS 1+2 combines the original Tony Hawk’s Pro Skaterand its sequel in a collection spanning all skate parks from the two games, faithfully recreating every collectible, ramp, and halfpipe featured in the originals. It sends me back to a time when baggy jeans came equipped with metal chains, and when people willingly listened to Goldfinger. It’s a blast from the past, but it doesn’t coast by on nostalgia alone - this is one of the most comprehensive and thoughtful remakes yet. THPS 1+2 is a time capsule teleported in from the ’90s, taking me back to weekends spent ollying and grinding virtual rails with my friends. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 review for PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Skating down the Warehouse’s first ramp, smashing through its glass doors, and then performing a picture-perfect Christ Air soundtracked by ‘Guerrilla Radio’ is a transportive experience.
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