
The game was unusual for having advertising in the form of billboards while the previous games in the series featured advertising, non-skating brands can be seen for the first time (since the level Downhill Jam in THPS1). It was the first game released for the PlayStation 2 supporting online play, and the last game released on the Nintendo 64 in the United States. In 2002, it was published for the Nintendo 64, Xbox, PC and Game Boy Advance. It was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision ( SUCCESS Corporation in Japan) in 2001 for the Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Color, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation. And by all time, they mean time itself as the tournament will have the skaters travel to different locations all over time including previous games and even previous versions of the pro skaters from those games.Janu(US) Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, often called THPS3 or Tony Hawk 3, is the third video game in the Tony Hawk's series.

The television turns on to a image of a group of hooded figures, who speak to the camera telling the pro skaters that the reason that they're there is because of a skating tournament to prove the best skateboarder of all time.

When the protagonist and the pro skaters wake up they're in a dungeon type place with a large television screen. Cops arrive on the scene but are too late and the van has already driven off.

The protagonist decides to investigates the mysterious van and is pulled in by a mysterious arm, causing the fans to scream and the pros to rush in and attack but are pulled in themselves. Scores are calculated by adding the sum of the point value of each trick strung together in a combo and then multiplying by the number of tricks in the combo.įive years after the events of Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Tony Hawk and a group of pro skaters including the protagonist are skating in a skate park being cheered on by fans until a van shows up in the middle of the ramp and almost hits Tony Hawk, the protagonist, and the other pro skaters. The gameplay in Underground 3 is similar to that of previous Tony Hawk games: the player skates around in a 3D environment modeled after various cities and attempts to complete various goals. Most goals involve skating on or over various objects or performing combos.
