Skate aficionados will claim he was always the main man, but surely even he will have to concede that much of his fame has come through his game endorsement, possibly even more so than Colin McRae.

Whereas a lot of people dabbled with skating at the end of the ’70s, grazed their knees and went back to Scalextric.Tony Hawk stuck with it to become a world-renowned king of the plank. It’s an addictive affair, and one that has you frantically slapping the keyboard to have another two minutes of controlling a pretend man on a child’s toy. We might as well be working on a f'**ing building site.Ī straight port of last year’s console hit, Tony’s third game manages that rare trick of being hugely frustrating yet infuriatingly compelling. And me? Long periods of silence punctuated by intermittent bursts of foul and abusive language. For example, during the extensive testing of Tony Hawk's 3 in the laboratory, Richie was simultaneously swearing his way through Jedi Knight II while Dave and Anthony traded rockets and insults during a head-to-head bout of Quake III. Paradoxically, it seems that the better they are, the angrier they make you.

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