"In the world of Gaming, 2000 was actually a pretty kick ass year. We were all able to get our hands on the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo sold it’s 100,000,000th Game Boy system.

Looking Glass Studios (System Shock 2, Thief series) went out of business. Bungie was bought by Microsoft (to the eternal embarrassment of Apple's Steve Jobs, to be sure), and Red Storm Entertainment became the new property of Ubisoft. Volition, the development house behind FreeSpace 2 and Summoner (and later Saint's ..."

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"Before the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, most skateboarding video games had you either performing the most basic of tricks in a 2D half-pipe (Skate or Die), or had you doing truly non-skateboarding things like racing across country (2 Xtreme). The original THPS changed all that, adding a much-needed focus on tricks and in the process single-handedly sculpted the skateboarding genre that we all know today.

But what if the Tony Hawk games weren't the best skateboarding games on the PlaySt..."

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