Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Remake | Warehouse Level Gameplay - video Dailymotion

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We got to ollie our way onto the beloved Warehouse level of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (hello, fellow kids.)  But how did it feel revisiting an iconic Tony Hawk level? And what does this level say about the potential for the full Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2 remake?

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00:00I didn't think that the warehouse level in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater would be able to capture my

00:17undivided attention. Not again. Not now that I'm a 30-year-old equipped with bad knees,

00:22a million miles away from the wannabe Rodney Mullen that spent many a night eating sh**

00:27on these same spots two decades ago. I expected to dip in, have a little fun, eventually get annoyed

00:32with the cadence of John Feldman's voice and dip out. So believe me when I tell you that I don't

00:37know what happened. I sat down with a demo after work and the next thing I knew it was 1am. Time

00:42erodes all things, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater is the one constant. I honestly couldn't tell you if the

00:48Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2 remake handles exactly as it used to, but I can tell you that it handles

00:53exactly as I remember it did. I don't have a Playstation, Dreamcast or N64 to hand, but if

00:58I had made a retro library my priority for the pandemic, I wouldn't be surprised to find the

01:03conversion was close. Truth be told, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2 remake looks and feels exactly

01:08as I remember it did too. There's something so strangely satisfying about stumbling upon all

01:13these special spots from 20 years ago. It's as if they've been preserved in a small cordoned off area

01:18of my brain for later use. A dopamine hit released every time I hit one of those lines or gaps that

01:23is enshrined in blue on the combo chain. The warehouse demo is missing the glowing SKATE letters

01:29and the secret VHS tape, but I already know where they'll be in the final game from Instinct alone.

01:34And in their absence, I'm still having a bloody great time smashing past the sick score boundary

01:39and hitting a 5-0 on the big rail. Some things never change. That's because there's something to the

01:44speed and momentum here in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 and 2 remake. It invites competition and escalation

01:50in a way few other games have been able to achieve. The hangtime is as satisfying as ever too,

01:55lingering long enough to tempt you into inserting a faceplant through your combo. The magnetic snap

01:59to rails and the drag of grip-take across concrete, your weight shifting in tandem with that of the

02:04balance meter. Listen, I don't know how much you can ultimately divine from one demo, but if this is

02:09truly representative of the wider experience, then this will be the Tony Hawk's game we've been waiting

02:13a long time for. And that's the tricky thing with nostalgia, because we have been waiting not

02:18for something new necessarily, but for something old. It's put the developer Vicarious Visions in

02:23the unenviable position of needing to recreate a feeling, rather than the experience itself.

02:28And it has to do this while it works to both erase Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 from living memory,

02:33and establish a platform for the series to make an endearing return. Thankfully, the studio charted this

02:38path once before, as it revived Crash Bandicoot alongside Toys for Bob in 2017. The N-Sane Trilogy

02:45is a success story few could have predicted, although it has established a precedent for retro revivals

02:50within Activision. After an evening with the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 and 2 Remake Warehouse demo,

02:55I can't wait to drop into School 2. I can't wait to hit Downtown and Venice Beach and Hangar.

03:00Vicarious Visions has made me want to play more Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and that's something I never

03:05thought I'd find myself saying again. There's enough in here that makes me wonder whether

03:08Vicarious Visions is actually capable of picking up where Neversoft left off, in its pro skater years,

03:13had it avoided an American wasteland of its own design.

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