![]() ![]() The flavour of the action is pure arcade. There, loosed from the grip of logic, you find the familiar quarters of daily life-the school, the mall, the street-hauled out of the humdrum into a realm of heightened abstraction. ![]() The game’s pleasures lie in the zone just above it, gliding over its rails and grazing its concrete. Given that this marks the third occasion on which the first two entries have been re-released-after Pro Skater 2x and Pro Skater HD-you may wonder why on earth you should bother. Here we’re told exactly what we’re getting for our money, pitched as simple arithmetic: 1 + 2 = a trip back to the series’ happy height, on the PlayStation, when its ramp-strewn world was wrought by Neversoft, and seemed a fair reflection of our own, as skating culture reached a clattering peak in the early 2000s. ![]() Nor any graceless appendages, like Spyro Reignited Trilogy or Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled. Not for Mr Hawk the brain-draining blur of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, another Activision-published release, whose name takes after its subject, spreading disinformation and mass confusion. What, then, to make of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2? Well, the title is to be commended. Senescence seemed to set in, rather fittingly, around the time of Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam-followed by a long noseslide, from mediocre to outright mess. But then, I can’t imagine him doing anything as uncouth as ageing as someone who has forged a career from a polite but firm disagreement with gravity, why should he succumb to the touch of time? I like to think that he, like Dorian Gray, struck a deal: whereby the games that bore his likeness would wither in his stead. In fact, he spent most of the time in the floor, flailing through a fog of asphalt, thanks to a welter of glitches: hardly a dignified position for a man in the grind of middle age. The last we saw him, in Pro Skater 5, he spent most of the time on the floor. ![]()
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