All are customisable with new outfits and boards that you purchase with cash earned in-game, and you can create your own skater too, with optional face mask – naturally. Most of the original lineup remain (all portrayed as their current age), and are now joined by a modern-day roster that includes Leticia Bufoni, Lizzie Armento and Nike SB poster boy Nyjah Huston. Seeing a very obviously middle-aged Tony Hawk pull off his trademark trick, perfectly animated, hasn’t stopped making us grin after 20+ hours of play.
Just as impressive are the skateboarders themselves, who in 2020 look like human beings rather than a collection of baggy jeans-wearing shapes. The levels in the THPS 1+2 remaster now look like you probably imagined them to when playing the originals 20 odd years ago, a similar graphical magic trick to the one Final Fantasy VII Remake pulled off earlier this year.