Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 is a 2002 skateboarding game and the fourth game in the Tony Hawk franchise, it was published by Activision O2 and developed by Neversoft.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The graphics are great for a game in 2002.
 * 2) Instead of being linear like the preceding games, the game is now fully open world with various locations, now the objectives are given from a bunch of NPCs rather than being all activated at the same time.
 * 3) Great soundtrack, especially "TNT" by AC/DC, which plays in the game's intro, as well as other bands like Flogging Molly and Iron Maiden.
 * 4) Lots of playable characters, like the previous games it has hilarious additional characters, this time Eddie the Head (the mascot for Iron Maiden).
 * 5) The game has a nice selection of player customization.
 * 6) It has many amazing tricks that could be really dangerous in real life, although they still look awesome.
 * 7) For addition to the franchise now they are minigames, like tennis and baseball.
 * 8) Very responsive controls.
 * 9) Now you can grab on cars.
 * 10) Decent use of product placements.
 * 11) You can practice by choosing it in the Character Select screen, and when you do you will skate on the game's menu background.
 * 12) The multiplayer mode like last time is very fun.
 * 13) The objectives aren't just exactly the same as they we're in the previous games. The objectives are much more on its own, for example as trying to warm the skaters due to an officer trying to stop them.
 * 14) There are even skating competitions and are still fun.
 * 15) The game inspired Toys for Bob to create a Disney licensed game which is as good as this game called Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure which uses the same game play and graphics engine as this game.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) After beating most objectives, all you get is one stat point.
 * 2) Despite being a good game and being enjoyable, it is a bit of a step down from the previous games and wasn't as well regarded.
 * 3) The PS1 version while still enjoyable, was inferior for many reasons.

Reception
While it wasn't as well regarded as its preceding games, it still received positive reviews and sold well.

Trivia

 * This was the last Tony Hawk game to use the Activision O2 label, though not the last game overall.