After the launch of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 in 2020, developer Vicarious Visions reportedly pitched a second remake for the third and fourth video games, however these plans have been nixed in favor of the developer working as a Call of Duty assist studio. That is in keeping with online game historian Liam Robertson at Did You Know Gaming (through VGC), who reported that Vicarious Visions initially deliberate to incorporate THPS 3 and 4 within the remake, earlier than the studio realized simply how large the undertaking was.
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“We settled on including some dealing with options from the later video games to replicate the way in which folks keep in mind the previous Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater video games,” considered one of Robertson’s VV sources claimed. “The enhancements from THPS 3 appeared to bleed into folks’s recollections of the primary two. Finally, it turned clear that we did not have time for greater than 1 + 2, so the concept that we might proceed on and launch 3 + 4 in some trend was on the desk.”
Regardless of the success of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, Activision reportedly handed on the pitch in order that VV might help on Activision’s greatest franchise, Call of Duty. The studio was finally absorbed into Blizzard as a assist group in April 2022 and rebranded to Blizzard Albany. In distinction, Toys for Bob just lately parted methods with Activision Blizzard and it has reportedly reached a take care of Microsoft to fund its subsequent title. As Microsoft now owns Activision Blizzard, there’s additionally the likelihood that this pitch could possibly be revisited sooner or later now that the studio and the franchise is technically underneath new administration.
Whereas the Tony Hawk franchise seems to be dormant for now, there are a number of different skateboarding video games to take a look at proper now. Session: Skate Sim and Skater XL present a extra lifelike strategy to the style, and EA’s Skate collection is about to relaunch as a free-to-play title. It is presently aiming to kickflip its approach onto consoles and platforms (*4*).