TheCleric

I had a chance to peruse this new gem at my friends house today. Overall its a great game, the new ps2 graphics make it beautiful, the gameplay is still as good as the others, and of course there are new players, levels and specials you can unlock.

A new thing that is kind of hard to get used to though is the meter for grinding. Unlike thps1 and thps2 where you just judge your characters balance by their leaning alone now there is a meter that pops up when you start to grind something. It takes awhile to get used to but once you do it becomes quite the asset when linking huge grind trick combonations.

Speaking of linking tricks a new link has been added for when your coming down a halfpipe called a revert. The revert allows you to regain your stunt where you left off, unlike thps1 and thps2 where once you went up your trick is done. This allows for some crazy link combos, which allows for you to utilize all of your specials.

The create a skater mode is a lot better looking, and now you can have up to 9 special tricks, if you unlock them with your character.

And now with sonys new technology on the ps2 you can buy a modem or hook your ps2 up to an ethernet card and go online to gaming servers where you can play other people with thps3. Pretty rad eh?

And also Bam Margera from Mtv's Jackass is in it, and he has some awesome moves, like the human dart grind.

I give this game a definite 10, and suggest all those with a ps2 to purchase it or beg for it for christmas :P

Cleric

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