Levels called Suburbia and Downhill appear in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, but they don't bear any resemblance to the originals (although Downhill does have a skate park at the bottom of the hill, like the original). The version hidden in the PC version of Tony Hawk's 2 has the differently colored bus from that game's Philadelphia level instead. In the beta of the first game, Freeway has a bus appear out of nowhere and fly off into the air. Freeway can be accessed via hacking in the PC version of Tony Hawk's 2 (which also features the levels from Tony Hawk's 1). Suburbia was an early version of the San Francisco level that was heavily changed in the final version. Classic Concrete was a physics test with various types of terrain in it. Freeway was removed because it wasn't finished. The last section, a large warehouse with a pool in it, was implemented into the Chicago level in the final game. Downhill was removed because of its length, in addition to resembling a level from Sega's arcade Top Skater. The first game's beta featured levels called Downhill, Freeway, Classic Concrete and Suburbia which were changed or removed in the final release.Later competition came in the form of EA Black Box's Skate. Ironically enough, Skate and Destroy developer Z-Axis would wind up being acquired by Activision in 2002. Dueling Games: With the Rockstar Games-published Thrasher Presents Skate and Destroy, which was released a few months after the Pro Skater.Then 9/11 happened about a month before release, and terrorists in an airport was too touchy a subject, so they were replaced with pickpockets. Distanced from Current Events: Originally, the Airport level in the third game was planned to have objectives where you had to stop a group of terrorists.
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