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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 is a video game of skateboard simulation with a strong arcade style emphase at the expense of realism of the practice of this sport. The goal of the game is to get a score by coaching and succeeding various skateboard tricks, such as slides, flips, etc. The control system remains exactly the same as in the first opus: four buttons, one for each type of figures, whose variety can be obtained with the direction keys. If the player performs several figures in the same movement (without pause), the trick becomes a combo and the score is multiplied by the number of tricks in the combo. If the player replaces his motion on the ground (i.e. he lands without falling), the score is acquired. If the player falls to the ground at the end of the combo, the score is not added to the score of the current game.

To this, a few novelties, like revert, a trick that allows to make combos as for manual. For example, out of a quarter-pipe the player can chain on a revert To make a combo.

The game also allows to make hidden combos (hidden combos in English), these are combos varying from those of base according to the keys supported by the player during a trick. If the player tries a kickflip and press twice on the button ?, he'll make one double kickflip. This system will be redesigned in the following episodes (cf. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4).

The game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 is however the only opus to indicate the name "Hidden Combo" on the left of the screen as well as the particular noise of special tricks when making a hidden combo. It is also the last episode where it is possible to perform the Kickflip To Indy.