Faces of gaming: Real vs Virtual

Above: Tony Hawk's face, and Tony Hawk's face in Tony Hawk's the game

"Tony Hawk's what?", you might ask in reference to the tab, and so giving us a perfect 'in' to this bit of text. Tony Hawk's unfortunately fish-faced digital counterpart from Proving Ground, we would then reply. Which the both of us would then sadly gaze upon, feeling sorry for real-life Tony that his game image should look so... weird.

The devs have certainly done a super job on his tousled hair, though - digital Tony looks like he's just walked out of a digital Toni and Guy salon. Where, presumably, all the mirrors have been removed so that digital Tony isn't horrified by his own awful appearance. Poor real Tony. He's far more handsome thanProving Ground gives him credit for.

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.