The peaceful Suburbia map in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 hides many secrets and you need to uncover them to get the Suburbia secret tape.
Old and new fans can skate around in classic maps like Suburbia in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4. The two titles are receiving the modernizing treatment that the first two games got five years ago, but keeping the series DNA by challenging players to complete a number of goals to progress in the campaign. Among these, finding the secret tape has always been one of the most difficult missions in the games.
In this Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 guide, we show you how to get the secret tape in the Suburbia map, covering all the steps you need to go through to reach the tape.
How to get the secret tape in the Suburbia level in THPS 3
Suburbia’s secret tape is floating on a flag pole above the big tree in front of the ramp from where we begin the level. The big question is how to reach it.
First, you need to complete the “Help the Thin Man” goal. You don’t need to complete the Thin Man’s mission and collect the tape in the same run. Focus on first completing the “Help the Thin Man,” then in the next run you can try getting the secret tape.
The Thin Man is a quite suspicious figure who is standing next to the haunted house beside where the secret tape is. To help him, you need to collect an axe that is stuck in a piece of wood in the construction site area. Slide on the wood or just pass close to the axe to grab it. The axe won’t stay in your inventory if you don’t manage to get it to the Thin Man before the level ends. So if you run out of time, you’ll need to start a new run and grab the axe again.
Delivering the axe prompts a short cutscene and opens a passage to a secret area behind the house. This passage will always be open after you have completed this goal. It will take you through a corridor that ends in a a vertical ramp. Use it to propel you to the hidden area on the other side of the wall.
In the new area, there is a bow that you need to gain velocity and reach a window at the backside of the house that you can break to enter a new corridor. Once you get there, you can jump from the other end to reach where the secret tape is.