Additionally, the player can unlock four other playable characters Jango Fett from Star Wars, Eddie, the ubiquitous mascot of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden, Mike Vallely, who is a professional skater and wrestler, and Daisy, a female skater visually based on and voiced by Jenna Jameson. The game features fifteen professional skateboarders. Instead, the basic trick-set the player gets is allocated depending on what type of move set the player defines for their character. The game is also the only one in the series where the player does not have to buy tricks. As with trick extensions, this would be standard in the next game in the series where it was much simpler to do. Also included was the ability to do grind and lip extensions by tapping a direction and grind while grinding or lipping, which can also grant the player bigger combos as they can do a grind extension into a special move, for example.

The 'hidden combos' for turning some tricks into slight variations in Pro Skater 3 turned into a standard feature, albeit not as advanced as the system would turn out in the next game in the series, where it was finalized. The game also features skitching, which lets skaters hang off the back of moving vehicles.

New to the game is the spine transfer, in which the player can press the shoulder button to transfer between quarter-pipes connected back-to-back, or otherwise self-right themselves to exit quarter-pipes or prevent bailing should they fly off them. All of the combos from the previous game make an appearance, as well as some new tricks that can be performed to better navigate parks and areas. The game builds on the success of the gameplay in the previous games in the series. This Career mode would be later seen as the Story modes of the Underground series, American Wasteland, Project 8 and Proving Ground. 4 instead featured a Career mode more similar to Free Skate mode, in which there was no time limit to explore the level, the goals are usually offered to the player to attempt by characters found in the level. Pro Skater 4 is a departure from the previous three games' Career mode, in which the player had a set amount of time in order to find and complete goals.

See also: Gameplay in the Tony Hawk series

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