{"id":376329,"date":"2026-08-29T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=376329"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:41:34","slug":"tony-hawks-pro-skater-3-is-still-the-best-sports-game-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/tony-hawks-pro-skater-3-is-still-the-best-sports-game-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater 3 is still the best sports game in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neversoft and Activision released <a href=\"https:\/\/skate.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater 3<\/a> on PlayStation 2 on <strong>October 30, 2001<\/strong>, and more than two decades later, it still belongs in the conversation about the best games ever made, sports genre or otherwise.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PlayStation 2 version holds a <strong>97\/100 Metascore<\/strong> on Metacritic, where it\u2019s tied with <a href=\"https:\/\/grand-theft-auto-iii-the-definitive-edition.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Grand Theft Auto III<\/a>. IGN called Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater 3 \u201ca masterpiece\u201d and praised its perfectly balanced gameplay, and at the height of skateboarding culture the game felt authentic, fast, and effortlessly cool.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its biggest addition was the revert. That one move let players <strong>link vert tricks<\/strong> into manuals and stretch combos far longer than before, so chasing points became less about isolated runs and more about building creative lines across an entire level, which pushed arcade sports games to a deeper level than most of the genre had reached.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contemporaneous sales reporting says it had sold more than <strong>2.1 million<\/strong> PlayStation 2 copies in the U.S. by July 2006, and it also launched on PlayStation, GameCube, Xbox, and Nintendo 64, where it ended up as the system\u2019s final release. The soundtrack, with Mot\u00f6rhead, Ramones, and Del the Funky Homosapien, worked as a gateway into punk, rock, hip-hop, and skate culture.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to see how the genre changed, <a href=\"https:\/\/skate.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater 3 + 4<\/a> is worth picking up on modern platforms, and Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater 3\u2019s legacy is all over the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/the-return-of-tony-hawks-pro-skater-is-confirmed-with-a-highly-anticipated-remake\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 remake<\/a><\/strong>, in the preserved feel, the updated visuals, and the online play, even if the game\u2019s impact outside North America and the UK, along with Neversoft\u2019s soundtrack work, still doesn\u2019t get much coverage.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neversoft and Activision released Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater 3 on PlayStation 2 on October 30, 2001, and more than two decades later, it still belongs in the conversation about the best games ever made, sports genre or otherwise. The PlayStation 2 version holds a 97\/100 Metascore on Metacritic, where it\u2019s tied with Grand Theft Auto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/tony-hawks-pro-skater-3-is-still-the-best-sports-game-in-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tony Hawk\u2019s Pro Skater 3 is still the best sports game in 2025&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":376328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-376329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376330,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376329\/revisions\/376330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376329"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=376329"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=376329"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=376329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}