Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 might be a mess, but at least there are plenty of amazing older games in the series to go back to, writes columnist Jake Magee.
Tony Hawk's Underground took skater games to a whole new level.
I recall not liking the idea of this game, when I was younger. Then, when I actually tried it at a friend's house. I absolutely loved it. Wish we could get another one on modern systems...
I personally considered this game the last great Tony hawk game before the series fell from grace.
It was already releasing far to frequently and had started following trends urban setting in underground then jackass for underground 2 instead of leading it like with thps 1/2 .
So I was really disappointed with underground 2 at the time it was basically jackass the game but watching low poly model characters hurt each other I found really boring. Then we went to American wasteland which was ok and project 8 that was kind of an anomaly as it was actually good on everything except the PS3 I somehow found the PS2 version was simply the best version of it.
Wasteland was horrible and the motion controlled games garbage and thps5 makes me want to puke.
Funny thing is the remake of 1 and 2 reminded me of how fun these games can be so I'll be blowing the dust of of my disc and popping it my PS2 to replay underground this weekend.
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A little more time in the oven would've done these products some good a lot sooner.
Sega Saturn made it but not the 360. Don't remember Saturn having a horrid rrod rate. Absolutely horrid
The launch games were all right, but look at how Virtua Fighter and Daytona USA compared to their re-releases.
Finally another fan of the Tony Hawk series who appreciates Underground. Also I agree that THAW was less inspired but the story felt like more was put into it. I didn't like any of the gameplay changes though.
Tony Hawks Underground was by far the BEST skateboarding game...until Skate came along and made all Tony Hawks games irrelevant lol
I had so much fun with Underground though, it's surprising just how much adding the ability to get off your board completely changed the way you looked at the game. I spent so much time walking around trying to find the perfect spot for an amazing line, whereas in the older games you would have to skate there as quickly as possible and hope to nail it all before the timer ran out...
I don't like the underground series. Mechanically it's fine but I strongly prefer the arcadey design they abandoned.