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Tony, Gear, Skating, Etc.
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Mac Addict
Hawk says that he did a Switch ad for Apple because “somehow Apple found out” about his love for Macintosh computers. “It was an honor to be chosen for the campaign,” he says, “but my only switch was from Amiga to Macs. I have never used PCs.” His current hardware complement features an upgraded PowerBook, a 17” iMac, a 20GB iPod, and AirPort Extreme to keep his home network running without wires. He says that he’ll probably add a 17” PowerBook to his arsenal in the near future. He keeps his iPod loaded with his favorite music, which he says currently includes cuts from Transplants, 50 cent, Beck, Coldplay, The Used, The Clash, Pixies, Dr. Dre and The Vines because “they all get me fired up.” On the software side, he says that he’s using “Safari because it’s more intuitive than any other browser, Adobe Photoshop 7 because it’s finally available for Jaguar, and Final Cut Pro 4 because the best keeps getting better.” If You Build It, They Will Skate Like its predecessor, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 comes with an editor that allows you to build skate parks and share with them friends, even those who use PCs. Hawk says he’d rather “see what other people come up with and test them out” than build his own, though. Dee Brown, whose company Beenox ported the game from consoles to PC and Mac (Aspyr publishes both versions), says that the “editor is simply done better in THPS 4. There’s more stuff to do and more choices to make.” If you ever built skate ramps as a kid, the editor will seem like a childhood dream come true to you. Just about every element in THPS 4 — from lava pits to half pipes to pools to random bits of scenery — is available for you to place somewhere. You can also decide where to set gaps, player start points, and flags for multi-player capture-the-flag games. “We receive a ton of parks daily,” says Flores. “Some of the best ones get listed on a special page of favorites. We even gave one user a showcase of all his parks because you could tell he put a lot of time and effort into them.” You can switch to test mode at any time while building your park and see how well it works. Flores recommends this highly: “Make something that you think is fun and then test it, refine it, and keep doing that until you’re happy. “Don’t let your park be constrained by reality or what someone says it’s supposed to be,” he adds. “A good piece of advice, though, is don’t have rails or quarter-pipes that send players directly into walls or pits of lava. It sounds obvious, but there are a lot of parks out there like that. That’s just not fun.” Cheat If You Must What would a Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game be without cheats? As before, you can unlock secret levels and skaters, turn on moon gravity and fly high, pull off perfect manuals, and more. This time, though, you can do all that with one code: Enter “watch_me_xplode” (without the quotes) in the Cheats menu that’s located inside the Options area. That will turn on all the cheats in the game. When you begin skating, pause the game with the Escape key and select the Cheats menu. From there you can turn various cheats on or off (unlocked skaters and levels will show up on those selection screens). Sure, you won’t have the satisfaction of pulling off the tricks on your own, but even the most uncoordinated gamers will be able to rack up huge scores while skating around as Jango Fett on his hoverboard. |
 Skater Fett. Hidden characters abound. Unlock them all.  Comin’ Through. Don’t worry, they’ll move out of the way. Probably.  Stay On Your Toes. Over-correct your balance and you could be all wet.  Ride the Rails. You can grind just about anything. |
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System Requirements Subject to change by the publisher.
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