With Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 old times are brought back to life. After all, the game brings back the classic, super-fast gameplay from the old Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games in a spectacular way. However, maybe you are getting to know the skate series for the first time or you have forgotten some of your skills after all these years. In this article we will help you on your way so that you will be a virtual pro skater (again) in no time.
Of Gamer.nl Review leave no doubt about the quality of this remaster: “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 really impresses as a remaster. As a fan of the original, I can hardly believe that everything comes out so well. This game feels just like it did then. At the same time, it is great how ‘faithful’ the innovations of Vicarious Visions feel. It’s as if the new park goals have always been there. ” In this article we will teach you step by step how to perform as well as possible in the game.
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Take your time for the tutorial
The game includes a short tutorial explaining the basics of the controls. You might think you know what you’re doing after all these years playing Tony Hawk, but it may have been a while, so it doesn’t hurt to go through the tutorial anyway. That way your memory will be refreshed and you may notice a little trick here and there that you had forgotten. It will take you at most half an hour.
When you first start the game, you will be asked if you want to do the tutorial. If you have skipped it, you can still bring it up via the menu.
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First do the easy challenges in levels
In each level you will be given a list of challenges to complete. That can be quite overwhelming when you first arrive in a level. And then you only have two minutes on the timer! Inhale, exhale: you can replay the level as many times as you want and you don’t have to complete all the challenges in one round. So take up the easiest challenges first. Getting the lowest score and finding all the SKATE letters are relatively easy challenges.
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Get to know a level through Free Skate
An even better way to eventually complete all those challenges is to explore a level first via Free Skate. Then there is no annoying timer on the screen that makes you nervous, but you have an infinite amount of time to go through every ramp, rail and gap to jump into the smallest details. Of course: the various challenges cannot be found in the levels in Free Skate, but when you already have a good grasp of a level, it suddenly becomes a lot easier to complete as many challenges as possible in two minutes. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater is sometimes like a platformer, where your knowledge of the environment is essential!
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Alternate tricks
Once you know a level well, it is especially important to rake in high scores, especially when you participate in tournaments where medals can be earned. Repeating tricks yields fewer and fewer points, so it’s essential to perform all kinds of different tricks. With the bottom action button you make an ollie (jump), and the other action buttons can be used in combination with the eight different directions on the four-point push button or analog stick to do different moves. The left action button is for flips, the right action button for grabs and the top action button for grinds.
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Link tricks together for combos
Once you get through the different skate tricks, the next important step is to create combos. For example, if you jump off a bar after a gravel and you are on your way to the next place to do a trick, it is important to perform a manual during that trip by quickly pressing up and down on the analog stick once. or four-point push button. In fact, a manual counts as a link between two different tricks. This keeps the counter running. Every new move you throw out doubles the score and in no time you can score hundreds of thousands or even millions of points in one go.
But how do you do that when you’ve just jumped and come down on a disaster? You have to do a revert before you use a manual. By immediately pressing a trigger when you come down from a disaster, you start the revert. Immediately after that, do a manual (quickly press up and down, remember?) And you have created a link between your previous and upcoming trick.
That takes some practice, but just like with real skating: practice makes perfect! It is the only way to get really high scores for the challenges in levels and when you compete against other players online.
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That takes some practice, but just like with real skating: practice makes perfect!
Fall as little as possible
Falling into Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 (also called a ‘bail’) is a mortal sin! It takes you extra time during the short two minutes you have and it resets your Special meter, forcing you to rebuild it. In addition, when you fall, points are subtracted from your score during tournaments. The most important thing during tournaments is to never fall off your skateboard. And should it happen, don’t forget to press X or A to get back on your board as soon as possible.
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Always keep the Special meter full
As mentioned, your Special meter is empty in one fell swoop when you fall. You build up the Special meter by performing tricks and thus raking in scores. Once full, the meter gives you the chance to perform some special moves. You can set those special moves in the menu of your skater. Throughout your career you will unlock more space to assign special moves, so check that regularly in your skater’s menu.
Special moves button combinations are a bit more complicated than regular tricks, but once done properly they will earn you a lot more points, so it’s definitely worth it. And the more special moves you combine, such as different special grinds and special grabs, the faster your score will increase. When your Special meter is filled, you are also slightly faster and you also jump a bit higher. A full meter is therefore essential for optimal skate sessions! Oh, and not unimportantly: the soundtrack also sounds a bit more dynamic with a full Special meter.
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Watch your stance
Every skater has a ‘stance’, namely regular or goofy. That determines which foot is at the front and back of the board. Every skater can stand both regular and goofy on a board, but has a favorite stance. Tricks work just a little better if you take the right stance. You can see whether you are using the correct stance at the top right of the screen. However, you can upgrade your skater with experience points so that he skates equally well in both regular and goofy, but that is of course something for the long term.
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Make smart use of your stats
Whether you play with a well-known skater like Tony Hawk or your own self-made skater: each character has his or her own stats. You can adjust this in the skater menu. In each level there are also individual stat-points hidden for each skater. Get those ASAP so you can spend them on your skater! That way you get faster and faster, you jump higher or you stay in balance longer during a grind or a manual. It is also useful that you can change the stats you add in between games. So if you are faced with a challenge and, for example, just cannot reach a certain location, it pays to temporarily throw all your stats into your airtime.
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Practice makes perfect
With the above tips you will become a virtual pro skater in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 in no time. The most important thing is never to give up: keep playing the game because every moment you play it, your fingers will learn to better recognize the feeling of ‘skating right’. It’s like learning to ride a bike: once you get it, you can’t unlearn it. And not unimportantly: make sure you enjoy it!
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