A substandard port of a decent Tony Hawk revival.
Playing it, however, I have found that maybe this series wasn't worth the revival. The controls on this game feel a little bit clunky at times, and it makes it hard to get a certain letter or item. Your character usually goes flying out of quarter pipes when you are trying to exit a bowl or half pipe. This is extremely irritating in Marsielle, where you need to exit a bowl to get on top of a pillar. I blew through the career, because most of the goals are recycled from previous games. Literally. The first level is pretty much the exact same goals from the game it was originally from. Also, there are no competitions of any sort. Which is very strange, because there are competition levels involved, but now they have goals to do. Graphically, THPSHD looks great, and half of the fun of the game is seeing old levels in a new light. But, that might be part of the problem as well.
As well as career, there are Projectives, and they are basically the hardest goals that weren't in the career, and now, you have one minute to do them. Projectives piss me off to no end, and I haven't gotten very far, thus. There is a Big Head Mode, which is probably my favorite part of the whole game. In this mode, your head increases in size, and the only way to keep it from exploding is to score points by pulling off big combos. It starts off nice and halcyon, but gets harder and harder, as the rate of head growth increases over time. You get money for surviving a certain amount of time, and it isn't very hard to get the "Sick Score" for each level, provided you can get a good combo going.
The rail detection is kind of wonky, and every now and then, you'll be grinding on a rail and jitter all over the place. Annoying.
Let me give you a little run down of the DLC that was just released today on the PC. It's awful. The levels look good for the most part, but the Airport looks awful. The benches in this level and some of the walls have a mucus green color, and it makes me sick. There has been an addition of Steve Caballero, Geoff Rowley, and oddly enough, the lead singer/rythm guitarist of Metallica, as well as the bassist, Robert Trujillo. I have no idea at all why these rockers would be in a Tony Hawk game, but it is kinda cool, but makes you wonder why they would not put a Metallica song in the game, but band members. At this point, the DLC is decent, I mean, kind of odd why the Airport has a mucus theme, and the random characters are fine, but the Revert is TERRIBLE. It looks the exact same as just switching your stance, and it is just plain awkward. It's not even fun to pull off, because it is so poorly set up. If you have ever played Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 on the Nintendo 64, it looks and feels the same. On the Nintendo 64, it was excusable that the Revert was so bad, because it was an old system, and the Revert wasn't even in the Playstation 1 version of the game. But, this isn't the age of Nintendo 64 anymore, and the fact that the Revert is so bad is just pathetic. The DLC is not worth downloading, needless to say.
As far as ports go, this one is lacking. It doesn't have multi-player available at this time, and it seems kind of ridiculous that PC players do not these options at this time. You can use a gamepad, which I highly recommend, as it is a million times easier than using a keyboard.
This game can be fun, but usually only a few minutes at a time.