This game was quite the disappointment.

The same problems that plagued the earlier Tony Hawk games were still there, but the developers seem to have forgotten the limitations of their medium - making everything needlessly more difficult at times simply for some shadow of authenticity to the game.

The first time I opened up the game, I played it for about five minutes before Alt-F4ing out of it in disgust. The jokes are absolutely terrible and juvenile, to the point where it's just annoying - perhaps this is appropriate for a 10 year old, but the humor lacks the subtlety it had in the earlier games. This was the first problem. The objectives that you have to complete have become much more frustrating over the point of the last few games - one comes to mind where you have to skate through a coliseum and knock down five "jocks" in one combo, and another where a stereotypical Frenchman obnoxiously declares, "you stupid skater-person ha-ha-ha-ha" repeatedly until you beat him in an incredibly nonintuitive tennis game. After this, a bum instructs you to kill a series of imaginary pink elephants. Now, I realize Tony Hawk himself is probably nearing 50 years old now, but this is no excuse for such stupid objectives. I've been skating since I was in fifth grade, and it seems like these games are distancing themselves further and further from the reality of skating and its associated culture. It was extremely hard to get into repeatedly knocking down a bunch of football players running in circles, and my disgust at the task got worse each time.

If you're going to keep iterating versions of what's basically the same game, Neversoft, you need to work on actually improving the game instead of adding a whole bunch of irrelevant crap. For your own sake, whoever's reading this review, don't buy this game, it's terrible.

I'm an old guy; my son is 6. Together, we had so much fun learning and mastering Pro Skater 3 that we couldn't wait to try Pro Skater 4. Unfortunately, as advanced as the game is in terms of graphics and intensity, it's just too much for my son and I to enjoy together. I've tried and tried, using the strategy guide as my source book, but the game is just too difficult to master or enjoy. The game interface is so far beyond what a simple guy like me and my young son can do together. Teenagers may love it, but it's just too much right now.

It's true that this game can't last very long after you beat it in the first two weeks; however, it's fun to come back to once in awhile. This game is different than the first three Tony Hawk games. You start off in the level free-skating and can approach people who will give you goals to accomplish. There are about sixteen goals per level and around ten or thirteen levels. I would recommend this game to anyone, even those who don't like skating, like myself. I would advise you to buy this game used for an incredible price. I personally would not pay more than fifteen dollars for it, yet it will definitely provide you and your friends with some entertainment.

Well, people expect too much of this game but i can say that it is a huge jump from the classic 2 minute mode where you've to do tasks to an open escenario where you've to find the tasks to do (21 on every level) and every skater has his own final pro challenge that makes the game longer 'cause you want to see the other skaters "ending".

I can say that this game is just part of the history of TH, if you look back to the amazing and incredible THPS 3 you'll see a great game, excellent graphics and incredible soundtrack, but it has the simplicity of the old TH games from PS1, but the game received the score of 10 over 10 in most magazines and game websites, you can check gamespot or ign if you don't believe me, 'cause when the game came out it was like the most incredible game ever created (and i found that only 4 or 5 games on all the history of PS2 have received the Perfect score), and this game is no exception, of course that if you've played TH underground 1 or 2 you'll find a lack of history here, but the game is great anyways and is a step on the ladder, but it has a lot of challenges and tasks to do, and i can assure you that after you play this game a lot, and after you beat it, there will always be something that you couldn't do and you'll find yourself playing this game after years (it happened to me) 'cause somebody told you that you have to bother the elephant to open the aquarium in the zoo (i replayed it after beating TH underground and in the middle of TH underground 2 just to open the aquarium and it was incredibly satisfactory to do it).

This is part of the ladder of TH, part of the history, if some people think that this game is over rated or it isn't a good game, well, i think they don't see the true value behind this title, but as a collector and a huge fan of the TH series i can tell you buy this game before you see it in a friend's house or in a rental and with a great desire check to buy it and see the terrible world "unavaliable", i think you can trust me on this. I almost pay 80 bucks for the collectors item "THPS3" just when the gentle people of activision put the game again on the streets for 17 bucks, you can check my review on THPS 3 for the whole story.

Tony Hawk 4 is the best PS2 game I've ever played. It's about a million times better than Tony Hawk 3 and Tony hawk 2. I've had this game for 2 years and I just can't stop playing it. Even though there's Tony Hawk Underground, Tony Hawk Underground 2, and American Wasteland, I haven't bought them I know they can't beat this game.

Graphics: I know everyone says the graphics could be better, I still think they're great, especially for a game made that long ago. I probably think this because alomst all of my 52 PS2 games were made at least a year ago. These graphics are better thanthose in sly 3 and thats a brand new game.

Multiplayer: Good enough. Horse is fun and playing online is too. King of the hill is my favorite and trick attack is good also.

Cheats: If you type in watch_me_xplode at the beginning it will give you all of the cheats, levels, and skaters. Most of the cheats stink but Perfect rail, manual, and skitch, cool specials, hoverboard, flame, and stats 13 are really useful. I beat the game the first time without cheats and then I beat again with cheats, the first time took me a month. I think I beat it the second time in 2 days.

Levels:

Colledge: a fun and easy level with lots of vert and street stuff
San Fransisco: Bleh. I don't like this level because it has way too many open spaces and street stuff.
Alcatraz: My favorite level, cool challenges, high rails, it's a vert level
Kona: Better than San Francisco, very street, hard challenges, an ok level.
Shipyard: ohhh this level is so bad it hurts to play it. impossible challenges and way too much water.
London: a good mix of street and vert, pretty easy.
Zoo: I love zoo. My 2nd favorite level. fun challenges, another great mix of street and vert

The levels you have to buy

Carnival: Some fun challenges, otherwise a lot like shipyard
Chicago: this level is so hard you cant even do it with cheats. Otherwise pretty fun.

Characters: Most of them are pretty good. Unlock Jango Fett and they'll all seem like toddlers that are desperatly trying to skateboard. Created players are fun to use because you can give them any tricks you want. Even Jango Fett's. Even though Tony Hawk is the best skater you can use (without cheats) his pro challenge at the end of the game is pretty hard, just a warning. Jamie Thomas's pro challenge is so easy a 2 year old could do it, no offence to those of you who are stuck on it. There are different names for created characters that will do different things to them. One of these names is kraken, try it out.

Create-a-park: So fun, so addicting. I spent all of today building parks. If you are going to play against your friend, you can make the park so you have the advantage. Better than playing at a normal park, especially shipyard.

If you want to buy this game, I encourage you to because it is truly a great game