"With the addition of Tony Hawk, our Dreamcast 2000 line-up is one of the strongest in the industry," said Holly Newman, Executive Vice President of Publishing. "The Dreamcast version will take full advantage of the systems features, including highly enhanced graphics and 4 player split screen play."

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater has been a top 10 U.S. PlayStation title according to TRST Data since the game's release by Activision, Inc. in September. The game lets gamers perform the radical moves of the most famous skater in the world, Tony Hawk. Additionally, they can try out signature tricks of nine other pros including Bob Burnquist, Kareem Campbell, Rune Glifberg, Buck Laskey, Chad Muska, Andrew Reynolds, Geoff Rowley, Elissa Steamer and Jamie Thomas. Gamers can ride the pros' decks in more than nine environments that include real world competitions and obstacles. Players can ollie and grind in a variety of realistic skateboard settings, including a skate park, elementary school, downhill course and half pipes, plus urban environments such as a San Francisco downtown area and a shopping mall. Each environment is littered with secret areas, short cuts, ramps and interactive objects allowing players to ride off of just about everything they see.

The game features hundreds of signature moves, allowing players to skate forwards, backwards and perform combos on the fly including airs, grabs, slides, grinds, kick-flips and landing tricks. An intuitive game interface and easy learning curve lets players gradually progress to more difficult stunts. The game also features Hawk's 900° (two and half rotations while airborne) -- a move that has never been accomplished until he recently performed it at the 1999 ESPN Summer X-Games.

Offering several modes of play, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater's four-player split-screen trick attack mode gives skaters the ability to interact with other players, allowing them to compete on ramps and in skateparks for style points, race between various obstacles on the tracks or play a rad game of tag. The game also features two additional multiplayer modes, including S-K-A-T-E (skaters' version of basketball's H-O-R-S-E) and Graffiti mode in which two players "tag" different obstacles in an environment by pulling big tricks off of them. If one player has tagged an obstacle, his opponent can steal it back by pulling a bigger trick off the same object. When time runs out, the player with the majority of the environment tagged wins. The game also features a replay mode where players can view the highlights of each run.

Game Features

• Fast skateboarding action powered by Dreamcast game engine featuring realistic physics models and high res graphics (640x480) at a steady 30 frames per second.
• 400+ polygon character models with every real details down to the orange strips on Tony's sneakers.
• 10 of the hottest skateboarding pros including the legendary Tony Hawk allow you to skate with the speed and agility and perform all the tricks of a seasoned skate pro!
• 9 real world courses including skateparks and downhill courses, plus street locations such as a school, metropolitan city and a shopping mall with secret areas, short cuts, ramps and interactive objects that allow players to ride of everything in the course.
• Multiple game play modes including 2-player Points Attack modes, Graffiti and HORSE, and an in-depth 1-player Career mode where players perform suicidal stunts and enter brutal competitions in an effort to become the highest rated skate pro.
• Robust and easy-to-learn trick and combo system allow you to pull off hundreds of combinations of airs, stunts, slides, grinds, kick-flips and landing tricks on-the-fly.
• Stunning special effects including real-time skid tracks, water reflections and effects-laden instant replays showing your best stunts.
• Motion-captured animation and smooth skinned characters capture the realism of the sport including signature tricks of all the top skating pros, plus multiple wipeout animations that make you feel the pain of a fall.
• Authentic skateboard manufacturers, products and sponsors, plus hip-hop and alternative music soundtrack and video walls.

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