You can't simply perform endless halfpipe trickery because after one or two reverts you'll be moving too slowly to get much air at all. The downside of the revert is that it slows you down a good bit. This means that vert work can be combined with flatland action. After the pivot, you have an opportunity, albeit a very small one, to link another trick to your chain. A revert is a 180-degree pivot performed near the flat while coming down from a vert trick. In the third iteration we get the revert, a subtler but nonetheless useful move. The addition of the manual to the second Hawk title revolutionized play the move became a staple of the game, not simply a slick trick. Most tricks are accomplished by some combination of the D-pad and one of the four main action buttons: ollie, grind, flip, and grab. The trick system is much like it's been since the first Hawk title reared its lovely head. The powers that be were smart enough to leave well enough alone and didn't monkey around with this mode. Network action is nice and all, but the real thrill of THPS3 is the single player game. And while the network play is damn fun, I'm not sure if it's robust enough to warrant the $50.00-or-so expenditure. Not only is the online play the sole improvement, but it is also the only reason to invest in the PC port. Firstly, does the PC game bring anything new to the table? Secondly, is it a worthwhile investment if you already own a console version of the title? The answer to both questions came from same feature: online play. (The Xbox Hawk, for example, boasts a whole new level and a new character.) After going through the PC version, I realized that the review had to address two main concerns.

And while a few of my coworkers wondered how the game was still any fun for me, the main reason to play it on different consoles, or, in this case, on the PC, is to discover new features.

My weapon of choice is the PS2, mostly because of the Dual Shock 2, which I think is the perfect controller for THPS3, but there aren't any bad versions of the game. I've put in my time with this game on the PS2, GCN, Xbox, and now PC.

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