Slap!Ĭall it deathmatch on skateboards-or just call it Slap! The skaters may not be armed with rocket launchers or rail guns, but the concept is still roughly the same as a free-for-all deathmatch mode found in most any first-person shooter. Today, we'll focus our attention on the two new online multiplayer games in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3: Slap! and King of the Hill. Beyond the pure technical polish that the game displays, the four gameplay modes found in the online component of Tony Hawk 3 are shaping up nicely as well. Not all the terrain-altering effects were accessible in the build we received, but we could still trigger the earthquake in LA. But Tony Hawk 3 puts the technical capabilities of the PlayStation 2 to good use, as the multiplayer levels are virtually identical to the single-player levels-the only major difference being the absence of pedestrians and moving vehicles. The multiplayer levels in the first two Tony Hawk games were trimmed down versions of the single-player levels, sometimes sacrificing large chunks of the level for the sake of competition.

Even when playing with the maximum capacity of four skaters on a level, the characters still animate well, the action still moves fluidly, and exhibits of slow-down or lag are rarities.

Two great things that go great together.Īs the first functioning online PlayStation 2 title to come through the GameSpot offices, it's fairly impressive to see how well the online multiplayer mode in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 works on a technical level.

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