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The Guardian
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 review – a gnarly skating time capsule
It's 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's 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. In 2020, the first couple of Tony Hawk's 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's THPS3 and 2002's THPS4 rock up here alongside newer stars of the sport (including Riley Hawk, son of the eponymous skating celebrity – I found this oddly touching). I remember these places so well – the factory, the college campus, the snow-dusted Canadian skate park, the time capsule of central London. Weirdly, the zoo level is now empty of animals (why?), but otherwise these compact arrangements of grindable, trickable urban obstacle courses are very much as they were. (The skater-punk soundtrack, unfortunately, is not as it was – there are a great many omissions, a disappointment only partly softened by a slew of new tracks.) Between grabs, spins, flips and manuals you can string together insane and risky combos across their entire geography, skidding across power lines, along walls and finding hidden half-pipes. I do not remember all of this being so hard, however. My first few hours with these games were a humiliation, as I grappled with the controller and baled over and over again trying to meet even the minimum required scores in each two-minute run. Was I always this bad at these games? Whatever muscle memory I once had is gone, but I am slowly building up a respectable set of virtual-skating skills again. There are more complex moves and traversal tricks to keep in mind here than there were in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2, which is a more arcadey experience, and a better place to start if you weren't there for these games the first time round. Like the real sport, it's about perseverance and repetition: when the combos started to flow again for me after a few hours, it felt so freeing. I still don't think there's a better skating game out there than old-school Tony Hawk's, even after all this time – and there's certainly no better time capsule of this pivotal moment in the history of the sport. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 is out July 11; £39.99


The Guardian
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 review – a gnarly skating time capsule
It's 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's 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. In 2020, the first couple of Tony Hawk's 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's THPS3 and 2002's THPS4 rock up here alongside newer stars of the sport (including Riley Hawk, son of the eponymous skating celebrity – I found this oddly touching). I remember these places so well – the factory, the college campus, the snow-dusted Canadian skate park, the time capsule of central London. Weirdly, the zoo level is now empty of animals (why?), but otherwise these compact arrangements of grindable, trickable urban obstacle courses are very much as they were. (The skater-punk soundtrack, unfortunately, is not as it was – there are a great many omissions, a disappointment only partly softened by a slew of new tracks.) Between grabs, spins, flips and manuals you can string together insane and risky combos across their entire geography, skidding across power lines, along walls and finding hidden half-pipes. I do not remember all of this being so hard, however. My first few hours with these games were a humiliation, as I grappled with the controller and baled over and over again trying to meet even the minimum required scores in each two-minute run. Was I always this bad at these games? Whatever muscle memory I once had is gone, but I am slowly building up a respectable set of virtual-skating skills again. There are more complex moves and traversal tricks to keep in mind here than there were in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2, which is a more arcadey experience, and a better place to start if you weren't there for these games the first time round. Like the real sport, it's about perseverance and repetition: when the combos started to flow again for me after a few hours, it felt so freeing. I still don't think there's a better skating game out there than old-school Tony Hawk's, even after all this time – and there's certainly no better time capsule of this pivotal moment in the history of the sport. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 is out July 11; £39.99


Fashion Network
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Depop enters gaming in link-up with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4
Digital fashion resale platform Depop is dropping into the gaming world with a new collaboration that brings fashion and skateboarding culture together 'like never before'. As part of the video game franchise launch of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4, Depop 'is stepping inside the game, offering players new ways to express their style while skating through the streets of London and San Francisco'. In the new game, players can access a Depop-branded 'Create-A-Skater' pack, featuring 15 branded styles and skateboards inspired by real pieces and Depop merchandise. Depop even features across the game, with pop-up-style moments and street-inspired branding 'bringing the fashion marketplace's brand energy directly into gameplay'. Depop users will also have the opportunity to shop exclusive edits with more than 5,000 items, inspired by the closets of pro-skaters, Riley Hawk, Nora Vasconcello, Sammy Montano, Sierra Prescott, and Henri Yoro. In addition to these edits, Depop will also launch an exclusive, collaborative in-app shop with artist NeckFace, known for his graffiti-meets-streetwear aesthetic. Dropping on 11 July, the limited collection of one-of-one unique womenswear pieces has been personally designed by the artist from secondhand items sourced on Depop, 'that blend graffiti art, fashion, and skate'. The campaign is fronted by pro-skaters Riley Hawk and Nora Vasconcello, 'who represent a new generation of athletes blending fashion, identity, and freedom of expression', we're told. Steve Dool, senior brand and marketing director at Depop, said: 'Skate culture has always involved exploring your personal style - and Depop is built on self-expression. This partnership is a celebration of the common interests between both communities.'


Fashion Network
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Depop enters gaming in link-up with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4
Depop even features across the game, with pop-up-style moments and street-inspired branding 'bringing the fashion marketplace's brand energy directly into gameplay'. Depop users will also have the opportunity to shop exclusive edits with more than 5,000 items, inspired by the closets of pro-skaters, Riley Hawk, Nora Vasconcello, Sammy Montano, Sierra Prescott, and Henri Yoro. In addition to these edits, Depop will also launch an exclusive, collaborative in-app shop with artist NeckFace, known for his graffiti-meets-streetwear aesthetic. Dropping on 11 July, the limited collection of one-of-one unique womenswear pieces has been personally designed by the artist from secondhand items sourced on Depop, 'that blend graffiti art, fashion, and skate'. The campaign is fronted by pro-skaters Riley Hawk and Nora Vasconcello, 'who represent a new generation of athletes blending fashion, identity, and freedom of expression', we're told. Steve Dool, senior brand and marketing director at Depop, said: 'Skate culture has always involved exploring your personal style - and Depop is built on self-expression. This partnership is a celebration of the common interests between both communities.'


Fashion Network
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Fashion Network
Depop enters gaming in link-up with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4
Digital fashion resale platform Depop is dropping into the gaming world with a new collaboration that brings fashion and skateboarding culture together 'like never before'. As part of the video game franchise launch of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4, Depop 'is stepping inside the game, offering players new ways to express their style while skating through the streets of London and San Francisco'. In the new game, players can access a Depop-branded 'Create-A-Skater' pack, featuring 15 branded styles and skateboards inspired by real pieces and Depop merchandise. Depop even features across the game, with pop-up-style moments and street-inspired branding 'bringing the fashion marketplace's brand energy directly into gameplay'. Depop users will also have the opportunity to shop exclusive edits with more than 5,000 items, inspired by the closets of pro-skaters, Riley Hawk, Nora Vasconcello, Sammy Montano, Sierra Prescott, and Henri Yoro. In addition to these edits, Depop will also launch an exclusive, collaborative in-app shop with artist NeckFace, known for his graffiti-meets-streetwear aesthetic. Dropping on 11 July, the limited collection of one-of-one unique womenswear pieces has been personally designed by the artist from secondhand items sourced on Depop, 'that blend graffiti art, fashion, and skate'. The campaign is fronted by pro-skaters Riley Hawk and Nora Vasconcello, 'who represent a new generation of athletes blending fashion, identity, and freedom of expression', we're told. Steve Dool, senior brand and marketing director at Depop, said: 'Skate culture has always involved exploring your personal style - and Depop is built on self-expression. This partnership is a celebration of the common interests between both communities.'