Whereas now we have been seeing a little bit of a resurgence in reputation for the basic skateboarding collection Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater with the upcoming launch of 3 + 4, the skateboarder lending his title to the franchise has stated that he would additionally like a remaster of Tony Hawk’s Underground occur in some unspecified time in the future. In an interview with ScreenRant, Tony Hawk spoke about how he was attempting his greatest to get the story-based skateboarding sport remastered.
“I all the time have aspirations,” Hawk stated. “It’s less than me usually. I’ll marketing campaign all I can, however I’m working with a a lot greater firm that’s loads smarter than me.” It’s price noting, nonetheless, that Hawk additionally stated that discussions about remastering Tony Hawk’s Underground haven’t really occurred at Activision but. The corporate is probably going ready to see the industrial response to Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 earlier than it makes any selections about bringing again later video games within the franchise.
When later requested about whether or not discussions had begun but, Hawk additionally famous that it was too early proper now, since Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 hadn’t been launched but. “Yeah, we haven’t even launched this sport,” he stated.
Tony Hawk’s Underground was the follow-up to Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 4. Launched all the way in which again in 2003, the sport was initially launched on PS2, GameCube and Xbox again within the day. There was additionally a model made for the Sport Boy Advance. Moderately than staying with the franchise’s extra arcade-styled loop, Tony Hawk’s Underground as an alternative centered on telling a narrative with the participant’s personal custom-created skateboarder.
All through the story in Tony Hawk’s Underground, gamers would get to fulfill and skate with quite a lot of skateboarding legends as they travelled everywhere in the world to participate in skateboarding competitions. Borrowing some features from THPS 4, Underground additionally featured a extra open method to its goals, with the participant needing to finish quite a lot of missions from NPCs within the zone they had been in earlier than they might proceed with the subsequent chapter of the story.
As for Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4, Activision not too long ago confirmed that Bam Margera could be a part of the sport’s roster as one among its Secret Skaters. The announcement was made with a trailer, the place Margera spoke about first taking part in Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 2 and getting so enthralled with it that he ended up lacking a number of flights.
A hearsay from again in March indicated that Margera was added to the roster of Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 on the insistence of Tony Hawk himself. In response to The Stay Membership podcast co-host Roger Bagley, Hawk insisted to Activision that Margera be included within the roster, which reportedly ended up with Margera having to fly to the studio to get body-scanned for the sport.
Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 is slated for launch on July 11, and can be coming to PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Collection X/S and Nintendo Change.