This game introduced the revert, a trick that allowed for vert combos to be tied together with a manual. Tapping a button when landing in a quarterpipe would allow the combo to continue. (In the prior 2 games, landing in a quarterpipe would finish a combo.) The game also added hidden combos, where if you tapped a button combo in the air or performing a lip trick, a slightly different trick would be performed. (If you attempted a kickflip and double tapped the flip button, you would perform a double kickflip.) This system would later be refined in Pro Skater 4.
Kareem Campbell and Shaquil "Star" Rashad's "Time For Some Axion" can be heard on Kareem Campbell's skate video in THPS 3.
Trivia
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 was the first game in the series to include brands such as McDonald's, Nokia, Jeep and others as sponsors. Prior to this game, only skating-related brands were featured.
Bam Margera made his video game debut in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. This would help propel him to worldwide notoriety, along with his Jackass TV series which was becoming popular at the time.
Ollie the Magic Bum was available as an unlockable character for the first time. (Ollie was part of a level goal in the Venice Beach level of THPS2 (Ollie the magic bum 5x) and was also a NPC in THPS4
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 was the first multi-platform game in the series to allow players to create female skaters. (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x allowed the creation of female skaters, but was only released for Xbox.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 has earned a perfect 10 at GameSpot, which was later confirmed to be a mistake by the reviewer Jeff Gerstmann, who has reviewed all the Tony Hawk games.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 was the last N64 game ever released. It was released in August 2002, 10 months after the most recent prior US release.
Several objectives were cut out of the airport level, due to them revolving around terrorists because it was to soon after the september 11 attacks. [[Citing sources citation needed]]
