Most, but not all, of the first two games' songs have returned. Depending on your GPU manufacturer, however, you can toggle different types of "low latency" modes.
Description of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Windows. Other brands or product names are the trademarks of their respective owners. Before we begin putting arms around each other as a bunch of PlayStation skateboarding fans, screaming classic pop-punk songs and praising this week's new Eight years later, the series' handlers at Activision are back with another crack at the first two Having spent the past day playing a lot of the remake's PC version, I can report that the rebuilt-from-scratch controls and physics are (mostly) on point—with every major difference hinging on a jump from the original game's refresh rate. You can arguably play this level over and over and over and get your money's worth. The game's new achievement system rewards players with in-game cash and experience points. Hit insane trick combos with the iconic handling of the Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™ series.Play all the original modes and go head-to-head with local 2-Player modes. After making this switch, I did indeed start doing better. (Again, this is just the animation before your skater actually hops. Want to remove some of the QoL tweaks and have the game better resemble either THPS1 or THPS2?
One of the facial options feels very, very 2020.
PC video options, part one. Mostly, I've had to come to terms with how the series' classic controls and timings feel different when your character's animations run that much more smoothly. (Ars Technica may earn compensation for sales from links on this post through
All the pro skaters, levels, and tricks are back and fully-remastered, plus more. Play the fully-remastered Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™ & Tony Hawk’s™ Pro Skater™ 2 games in one epic collection, rebuilt from the ground up in incredible HD.Skate as the legendary Tony Hawk and the original pro roster, plus new pros. On a 144Hz monitor, those 16 frames equate to roughly 0.11 seconds. In my case, I went into an Nvidia Control Panel, switched "low latency" mode to "on" (not "ultra") and tried again. One of the more dramatically lit remastered levels.
That's an option.
Lots of shadowy portions as you look for tables and schoolbells upon which to grind.
Milliseconds matter. Non-US transactions through Epic Games International, S.à r.l.
You'll need both experience levels and in-game cash to unlock some of the fancier cosmetics, like a series of skateboard graphics that animate.
PC video options, part two.
The Digital Deluxe Edition includes the complete Tony Hawk's™ Pro Skater™ 1 + 2 Game, 'The Ripper' skater from Powell-Peralta®, unique retro outfits for Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero and Rodney Mullen, and unique retro content for the Create-A-Skater mode.The United Pack includes an exclusive set of apparel, skateboard decks and accessories to outfit your Create-A-Skater character.Widescreen support 21:9 / Remappable controls / Uncapped frame-rate / G-Sync / FreeSync support© 2020 Activision Publishing Inc. ACTIVISION and PRO SKATER are trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. Tony Hawk is a registered trademark of Tony Hawk, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are property of their respective owners.© 2020, Epic Games, Inc. All rights reserved. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 PC impressions: No pretending for this Superman A successful return to basics with a slick coat of paint, sensible QoL improvements. Epic, Epic Games, the Epic Games logo, Fortnite, the Fortnite logo, Unreal, Unreal Engine, the Unreal Engine logo, Unreal Tournament, and the Unreal Tournament logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Epic Games, Inc. in the United States of America and elsewhere. What once natively ran at under 30 fps can now run at an unlocked rate at arbitrary resolutions, and I've seriously enjoyed the results on my 144Hz monitor.On default monitor and GPU settings, my PC version of the game shows roughly 16 frames between a button tap (using an Xbox One gamepad, connected via 2.4GHz wireless adapter) and a significant in-game animation beginning (in my test's case, a mild bending of the knees before pulling an "ollie" hop on a skateboard).