Status Yungbeck Nov 5, 2023
Out of the 12 levels in THPS3, I think CANADA is my favourite. Perhaps the sleepy suburbs with its rough pavements and dirty snow hugging the roadside reminds me of my own neighbourhood growing up, each year with a very limited time frame to be outside skating.
The somber glow from the cabins at dusk to the distant buzzing of …
Out of the 12 levels in THPS3, I think CANADA is my favourite. Perhaps the sleepy suburbs with its rough pavements and dirty snow hugging the roadside reminds me of my own neighbourhood growing up, each year with a very limited time frame to be outside skating.
The somber glow from the cabins at dusk to the distant buzzing of teenagers chasing each other on snowmobiles is a wonderful touch to the environmental shenanigans that goes on in each stage. This is one of my favourite aspects of the Tony Hawk games and their level design.
You can skate anything from heavy machinery and dirty parking lots to snow covered, wooden paths to a straight up Native totem pole. There's rude, Canadian bullies that mock you and throw snowballs at you when all you're trynna do is land that nollie heel krooks on the cabin roof. There's public urinators, rude and hostile signs everywhere and cops that just drive around doing nothing...something tells me somebody at Neversoft had a real problem with their northern neighbours. Me? I love Canada. So does Darth. Look at him!
