@comicbookhoarder Where is Tony Hawk 4? that's my favourite non standard, otherwise 2

I'd probably go with 2. For me, I think that was the sweet spot.

Your poll is missing 4, my personal favorite. I jumped from THPS2 on psx to THPS4 on PS2 with the network adapter. The graphics, the tight gameplay, being able to play online, it was great.

People have done some crazy stuff with the PC versions of those games if you want to relive the magic. THPS3 PC has a level mod which adds the levels from THPS1, THPS2, THPS2x (xbox version) and some of THPS4 into one game. Tony Hawk's Underground 2 has the THUG Pro mod which adds all the levels from THPS4, THUG1 + others like Andy's Room from Disney's Extreme Skateboarding.

I have the fondest memories with 2 but I played 4 waaaaaaay more than any other Tony Hawk. That game had a lot of content.

Plus you get to ride around in a shopping cart on Alcatraz, so there's that.

Yeah 2 without a doubt. I didn't much like the innovations in 3. I thought the game was better when it wasn't possible to be doing a trick for the entire two minutes without letting up.

3 fo' sho', but I'd accept an argument for 2.

Also, Project 8 is surprisingly fun. I picked it up a couple months ago for five bucks just to scratch the itch and move on, but it's actually quite decent. Also gotta give it props for beating Skate to the punch on a few features.

I feel sorry for the people that voted for THUG 2. Only getting to play one Tony Hawk game your entire life and it was THUG 2, damn.

@thepullquotes: I just forgot. :-) The first Tony Hawk game I played was pro skater 3 on my aunt's PS1. I remember using Eric Koston most of the time. Never played the 1 or 2 just the 3 and maybe 4.

2, 3, 4 and Project 8 are all pretty close for me. I went with 3.

Eric Sparrow is the greatest villain in video game history.

Pro Skater 3 is the only answer. I spend an absurd amount of time playing that game.

I voted for THPS3, but only because you somehow left out THPS4. 2 comes close as well, being my original entry point for the series, but I preferred those two overall.

Tony Hawk 3 is the best Tony Hawk game. Tony Hawk 2 is my favorite Tony Hawk game.

I voted for THPS3, but 2, 3, and 4 are all close to perfect.

Depending on the day, I would say 3 or 4. Probably one of those. I probably played 4 more than every other Tony Hawk game combined except maybe Underground. 4 just had so much content.

Man, 3, 4, Underground are all pretty great, but ultimately I'm voting for 3.

Also, the poll is missing Shred, which apparently fixes the control issues that Ride had. They had a skateboarding physics professor fine tuning it for months.

My favorite is Underground. As goofy and stupid as its concept could be, I think it was just straight up the most fun I had with the missions and the overworld.

While its a tough choice, I would say that THUG is my favorite Tony Hawk game. Followed closely by 4 and then 2X (the Xbox mashup of 1 and 2). Didn't actually have 3 growing up.

I did everything in 2 and 3, and it's pretty much a toss up between the two. Refined mechanics in 3, but I feel like 2 was more of a challenge. I think THUG and THUG 2 were too much of a departure and I lost interest from there. Also, fuck Bam Margera.

First 3 are amazing, I think I'll go with 3. 4 was SUCH a disappointment after having played a ton of 3, it got too silly and the open world format made the level design suffer.

Tony Hawks American Wasteland by far.

I really liked 4 and can't fathom why, in retrospect, some twelve years out.

I'm voting for 2, though. Kickflipping TC's Roof Gap to Guerilla Radio was a transcendent moment.

For me it will always be 2. The soundtrack very much shaped my musical tastes in the early 00s as I was a teenager too.

However, as a complete package I might vote for 4 instead. I voted 2 in the poll. Would like to play 2X some day, despite it not getting a PAL release.

THPS2, it had Spider-Man and "When the Worlds Collide" by Powerman 5000.

Other games may have been better, but I will always go back to 2 over any of the other ones.

Pro Skater

That is the one I played the most and have the fondest memories of. I was never the biggest fan of these games, really only played 1 & 2 when they came out but I remember enjoying them.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 gets my vote. That game landed at a pretty perfect time for me, its release coinciding with when real-life skateboarding started getting popular amongst my peers, and consequently within my group of friends. I would quite often spend afternoons after school skating with my buddies, then when it started to get dark I'd head home, throw on THPS4 and continue skating in a virtual space. I'm also a big fan of the game's more open-ended level and mission structures - THPS1-3 all felt unnecessarily restrictive to me with the mandatory time limits, whereas THPS4 let you explore and tackle objectives more or less at your own pace. Finally, I think THPS4 was the 'tightest' of the games that I played (I split from the series after THUG). Its controls and mechanics were about as close to perfect as the series got in the time I spent with it.

In my circles there are two types of THPS fans.

Those who played those who played ungodly amounts of 1 and 2 who consider 2 the best, and those who missed 1, played ungodly amounts of 2 and 3, and consider 3 the best.

My favourite is THPS 4. I played an insane amount of THPS 1, slightly less of two, then I skipped 3 because I wasn't feeling another Tony Hawk game. One day i picked up THPS 4 for a few bucks and fell in love all over again. I played 3 right afterwards, but I felt like it was a step backwards. Four might not have innovated much in the gameplay aspect, but it was definitely the smoother playing, less janky version of the two titles and the open-world nature made it more fun to goof off in.

I'll say 2. I think 4 is probably the sweet spot for me, in terms of how the trick system progressed. I have some appreciation for what Underground 2 did, by splitting the game into two with story mode and a classic 2 minute mode with goals.

Also, what's with the Pro Skater HD omission?

@thepullquotes: Good thing I didn't encounter him. Didn't play the Pro Skater 2 much. lol

Favorite single player: THPS 3

Favorite multiplayer: THPS 4

2 and 3 are a dead heat for me. I guess I'm inclined to say 3 because it was the first one on new tech at the time, and while both games were really solid in just about every other way, 3 was a lot more technically impressive than 2 was. I guess?

I would have to say the OG trilogy.

Public enemy number one

Five-O said freeze and I got numb

Can I tell em that I really never had a gun

But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun

Tony Hawk 2, brosef. School 2! Streets 2!

T Hawk 2

He's from the Underground series, be very happy you didn't have to play that.

3, Underground and Project 8 were profound releases for me.

I really enjoyed the early games till I played them too much and there didn't feel like anything else there for me.

I like Project 8 and proving ground (which I remember getting really cheap at $10 because it was Clarence pretty quickly at my local Target) because I had fun keeping combos alive for ridiculous amounts of time and the online was fun. It became like an old arcade game, how long can you keep the points going.

But the series really was fun to me and I'm not a huge skater. I was definitely able to appreciate stuff from the series that some might think made it flawed.

I also thought Underground 2 with the Jack ass guys was funny.

Playing as James Hetfield from Metallica in the re release of the 1st game was epic to!!

THPS3 was the best in the series, no contest.

As for the best OST in the series, now that's an unending debate to have. So many great punk and hip-hop tracks I was exposed to over the course of each game, from the Dub Pistols to the Reverend Horton Heat.