{"id":19419,"date":"2025-07-11T13:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/tony-hawks-pro-skater-34-review-a-gnarly-skating-time-capsule\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T13:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:38:16","slug":"tony-hawks-pro-skater-34-review-a-gnarly-skating-time-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/11\/tony-hawks-pro-skater-34-review-a-gnarly-skating-time-capsule\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater 3+4 review \u2013 a gnarly skating time capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"

PC, PlayStation 4\/5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch\/Switch 2; Iron Galaxy Studios\/Activision
<\/strong>This remake is a nostalgia fest of grabs, spins, flips and skids \u2013 and a stiff, even occasionally humiliating test of skill<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost insulting how easily this skating-game remake pushes my millennial nostalgia buttons. The second that Ace of Spades comes on over a montage of skaters on the title screen, I am forcefully yanked back to the early 00s, when I spent untold hours playing one Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater game or another in the gross bedrooms of my teen-boy friends. More than 20 years later, I can almost smell the acrid lingering odour of Lynx body spray.<\/p>\n

In 2020, the first couple of Tony Hawk\u2019s games were polished up and re-released as the first wave of Y2K nostalgia hit. The two games were packaged up as one, with consistent controls and a new look that preserved the grungy feel of the originals, and the same is true for 3+4: levels, skaters and parks from both 2001\u2019s THPS3 and 2002\u2019s THPS4 rock up here alongside newer stars of the sport (including Riley Hawk, son of the eponymous skating celebrity \u2013 I found this oddly touching).<\/p>\n

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\nPC, PlayStation 4\/5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch\/Switch 2; Iron Galaxy Studios\/ActivisionThis remake is a nostalgia fest of grabs, spins, flips and skids \u2013 and a stiff, even occasionally humiliating test of skill
\nIt\u2019s almost insulting how easily this skating-game remake pushes my millennial nostalgia buttons. The second that Ace of Spades comes on over a montage of skaters on the title screen, I am forcefully yanked back to the early 00s, when I spent untold hours playing one Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater game or another in the gross bedrooms of my teen-boy friends. More than 20 years later, I can almost smell the acrid lingering odour of Lynx body spray.
\nIn 2020, the first couple of Tony Hawk\u2019s games were polished up and re-released as the first wave of Y2K nostalgia hit. The two games were packaged up as one, with consistent controls and a new look that preserved the grungy feel of the originals, and the same is true for 3+4: levels, skaters and parks from both 2001\u2019s THPS3 and 2002\u2019s THPS4 rock up here alongside newer stars of the sport (including Riley Hawk, son of the eponymous skating celebrity \u2013 I found this oddly touching). Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PC, PlayStation 4\/5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch\/Switch 2; Iron Galaxy Studios\/ActivisionThis remake is a nostalgia fest of grabs, spins, flips and skids \u2013 and a stiff, even occasionally humiliating test of skill It\u2019s almost insulting how easily this skating-game remake pushes my millennial nostalgia buttons. The second that Ace of Spades comes on over a montage …<\/p>\n

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