Most of the images in this review were captured using a mixture of a third-party application plus Nvidia Ansel. Skateboard culture is heavy on getting photos and video clips of tricks and sessions, and in a time where photo modes are becoming more popular in modern video games, this feels like a huge missed opportunity to capitalize on the social media sharing culture. The high-quality textures and post-processing are certainly something that impresses, but there’s no official photo mode function, which is something that feels baffling. And with updated graphics, levels now look a lot more complex with glass doors revealing interiors, puddles reflecting the environment, lights glimmering off of objects, and more clutter scattered about. Levels are laid out exactly as I remember them: small and compact with level design that ensures you’re always no more than a kickflip and a manual away from the next object to continue your combo chain. Everything feels familiar, and it just looks better. After jumping back into the first two games through this remake, I found myself quickly rummaging through my muscle memory and within minutes was chaining combos like I used to back in the day. My time with the Tony Hawk games started to dwindle sometime after the release of Tony Hawk’s Underground 2. But you can absolutely expect to see the original levels in all-new detail and the original soundtrack alongside brand-new tracks from modern artists. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 -perhaps one of the most annoying ways of titling a game- is a complete remake of the original two games, keeping every part of its arcade-themed gameplay veterans will remember intact, while also introducing new elements to cater the experience to a modern audience. While I’m sad it’s not a brand new iteration in the series, I’m incredibly stoked to have been able to relive my childhood. In fact, people who haven’t skated in years have been picking up boards again and getting back into it. Everyone from the ’90s has some vivid memories of the classic arcade skateboarding title. The game not only influenced future skateboarding hits such as Skate, Skater XL, and Session, but it influenced nearly every skateboarder that I either know personally or know of. It is, without a doubt, remarkable how much influence on the skateboarding scene that Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater had when it launched in 1999.
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