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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 for GameCube Videos >>
Rating Reviewed By YomangoFrom Juneau,Alaska Review Date 02/19/2003 Overall Rating  5 of 5 Rate this review? Summary THPS4 is a really great skateboarding game. My altime favorite! Despite a few tiny flaws, this game is perfect. From the outstanding gameplay to the rad music{AC/DC Rules!} this game rocks!Sound I usually have the sound turned down, but when I do listen it sounds very realistic. Music is mostly rap with a little bit of heavy metal.Gameplay Gameplay is terrif. There are lots of different skaters to choose from. Unlike past Tony Hawk games, in THPS4 you don't get timed until you start a goal. To start a goal, you skate up to someone with a blue arrow over their head, and press X to talk to them. They will then share some dialogue with you and tell you what you must do. In must cases you will have 2:00 min.After you complete the goal you'll recieve $200. Ollie The Magic Bum is hilarious{He's a hobo}. Once you complete 90 goals, everyone's Pro Challenge is unlocked. Each skater's Pro Challenge is different. It is cool, because each Pro Challenge is based on something that skater actually did in real life! After you complete a skater's Pro Challenge, you will unlock a movie about them, and you will notice that some people in the levels will have red arrows over their heads. These people give you harder goals but more money when you complete them. To unlock a new level, you must finish a certain amount of goals on levels that are already unlocked. There are lots of ways to spend you're cash like buying new gear, skateboards, movies, secret characters, and secret levels.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Tony Hawk 4 is the BEST Hawk in the series. Better than even THPS 3 (great game) It has extremely fun gameplay...Sound Eh... only downfall. not much here. all blah. only a few good ones..... Tony Hawk 3 had the BEST soundtrack..... c'mon! give me "Amoeba", "Not the Same", "N Pulse" and "Blitzkreig Bop" ...Sound is the same... good. Gameplay Pricelessly addictive. THPS4 can keep you glued no matter what... You can play for hours. Slick, smooth gameplay, tons of moves, with the awesome "revert", and the new "spine transfer" rules! There is 7 levels, 2 locked levels. My favs are Alacatraz, San Fran, Zoo, and College. Some objectives range from inline skating (hehe), collecting the C-O-M-B-O letters all in one combo, collecting pink floaty elephants for "Ollie The Bum", saving a painter from a shark, feeding sea lions, to collecting the familiar S-K-A-T-E letters, to destroing Elephant traps, to slalom racing, to skitching on an elephant's tail while it runs in circles for 30 seconds and poops! The gameplay is awesome, but the challenges SOMETIMES seem to be OVERLY Difficult... expect a lot of playing time. You can play as the cool secret character "Jango Fett" and earn more cash to buy more stuff! Gameplay is SOLID! you can even do goofy mini-games like playing Tennis and your skate-board is your racket! to playing baseball, with a ghost that thows you balls... swinging with your board, to betting on which rhinio (in zoo level) will knock out the other one.... fun!Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4 is indeed an excellent game, but like all games it has its flaws. I won't go into detail here, scroll down.Sound Sound is good and bad in a few ways. I like to hear all the different voices of the skaters, the people you meet (I find the british accents very entertaining) and also you even hear the distinct yells and bail cries of the different skaters in the game, that part really shook me. The bad thing. The music in this game...sucks. I'm sorry. I'm a fan of rock. I could only stand four songs out of the entire series of music showcased in this otherwise amazing game. They were Goldfinger, Offspring, Flogging Molly, and System of a Down. The other tracks made me want to hurl. So I turned them all of (I highly recommend doing this for all who agree with me about music choices.)Gameplay Gameplay is good. Nothing super special. Takes a little getting used to on Gamecube but once you get the hang of it, it works just as well as any other system if not better. Tricks are easy still, there are brand spanking new ones to which are a load of fun. The new characters are all classic, in the last game for some reason I was never excited when I used Darth Maul or Wolverine, but in this one the secret characters are bunches of fun, and their moves are very...unique. I've got no reason not to make it so, so gameplays probably as perfect as it always was.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4 is by far better than the first 3 titles of the series. Everything that was in THPS3 is in THPS4 but, with newer and better levels.Sound The sound is not as good as THPS1 and 2, but better than THPS3. Effects are ok as well.All in all, this game is fun for about 2 days then you just want to trade it in and get Evolution Skateboarding after you will say EVO Skate sucks. So if you are going to buy it just stick with it and after a week you would possibly want to play it again. If I was you I would only rent this game. Go out and buy Kelly Slaters Pro Surfer or Velocity X. You will thank me later that I reviewed this game. Gameplay A REMAKE OF THPS3 but with better levels and more of a trick system. If you like the 3rd title for the series then you might want to buy it. I personaly think Kelly Slaters Pro Surfer is better but, in the skate department this game rocks! I have only one problem with this title. LASTABILITY!!!! You will get bored of skating around and doing tricks, and eventually you will just throw the game case down because it is so so so so BORING... Its the same as THPS3.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member. Summary This game is the best tony hawk yet by a long shot.Sound ok soundtrack, but they need to go back to more rock, i don't think alot of people who play this game wana listen to rap for every song. skaters voices are good.Gameplay The gameplay is awsome, with the new career mode I won't beable to beat this game in a week like i have all the other ones. I like not having a time limit at first it seemed like it would be to easy but its not you still only get 2 minutes to get your goal, and talking to the people especialy Bam (from jackass) is hilarious.Would you like to Comment? Join VideoGameReview for a free account, or Login if you are already a member.
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