Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 Review (Benjo)
If you are a casual THPS player you will probably love this. Most of the content is quality and to a decent standard akin to THPS1+2
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If you are a die-hard fan, or have any nostalgic connection to THPS4 you will find this game miserable.
It's missing 2 THPS4 parks (even after plenty of marketing stating ALL parks are returning.) Kona and Zoo are now competition levels, Zoo has about 20% of the level cut (aquarium and some surrounding areas). Along with some needless changes to the level geos in most of the THPS4 levels, they overall play worse than in the original game (or THUGPRO/RETHAWED).
The THPS4 career is replaced with the classic timer style (with some poorly designed goals)
The soundtrack is gutted. 6 Songs from the original THPS3 and 4 songs from THPS4. The rest of the 59 new songs make possibly the worst THPS soundtrack to date. Including some genuinely bizarre songs that don't fit the tone of the game. (Admittedly there are some bangers)
There is no set custom restart function (the devs when interviewed about this straight up didn't know what that was)
Multiplayer has no lobbies, no text chat, same game modes as 1+2. No custom parks in Multiplayer either.
There are no "secrets". There are 3 skaters that can be bought from the start of the game. 2 unlocked from progressing the game. No levels, no returning secrets from the original 3+4. Even some of the fun challenges from THPS1+2 (The secret high scores) are nowhere to be seen.
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There are 3 new maps added that were not in the original 2 games. They are part of the THPS4 "tour". They are poorly designed levels and it shows nobody at Iron Galaxy understand Neversoft's level design principles. There are plenty of grinds that lead to walls, ramps with weird jump angles, broken transfers, etc.
It has also been confirmed no major post-launch support. So outside of exploit and bug fixes don't expect the missing levels to return, or any new substantial content. I expect the multiplayer in this to be dead within a month.
Wait for a deep sale, or play on Gamepass.