i’ll take it over any tony hawk game after american wasteland
(angrily glances at pro skater 5)
Five was a hack job cash-grab.
Activision was sitting on the rights to publish Tony Hawk games, but stopped doing so after the series stopped being popular right up until the contract was about to expire. In order to rush a "game" out the door, they technically published a game that had nothing but a tutorial level on it even though it was basically still in alpha, then had an 8 gb day one "update" that was the actual game (and after the servers shut down, the game disks became coasters). The whole thing was basically asset reuse, and they never fixed most of the bugs because they didn't care about burning the franchise down when they no longer owned rights to it (and Tony Hawk himself wasn't aging well, anyway). They just shoveled out something as cheaply and quickly as possible to squeeze just a couple more pennies out of a dying franchise.
Activision was sitting on the rights to publish Tony Hawk games, but stopped doing so after the series stopped being popular right up until the contract was about to expire. In order to rush a "game" out the door, they technically published a game that had nothing but a tutorial level on it even though it was basically still in alpha, then had an 8 gb day one "update" that was the actual game (and after the servers shut down, the game disks became coasters). The whole thing was basically asset reuse, and they never fixed most of the bugs because they didn't care about burning the franchise down when they no longer owned rights to it (and Tony Hawk himself wasn't aging well, anyway). They just shoveled out something as cheaply and quickly as possible to squeeze just a couple more pennies out of a dying franchise.
look at the bright side: we have thug pro and the upcoming “session” game
Activision was sitting on the rights to publish Tony Hawk games, but stopped doing so after the series stopped being popular right up until the contract was about to expire. In order to rush a "game" out the door, they technically published a game that had nothing but a tutorial level on it even though it was basically still in alpha, then had an 8 gb day one "update" that was the actual game (and after the servers shut down, the game disks became coasters). The whole thing was basically asset reuse, and they never fixed most of the bugs because they didn't care about burning the franchise down when they no longer owned rights to it (and Tony Hawk himself wasn't aging well, anyway). They just shoveled out something as cheaply and quickly as possible to squeeze just a couple more pennies out of a dying franchise.
Then they did the 1 + 2 remake, so at least they did something with the license once they'd renewed.
