From the game’s earliest days to even now he’s always been allowed to have his voice heard on what direction developers were going to take the franchise. Not only because it has his name on the box, but because he’s always been very closely involved with the direction of the franchise. If anyone is going to have the inside scoop on what is going on with the franchise, it’s Tony Hawk.

So they took other pitches from other studios like ‘what would you with the THPS title?’ and they didn’t like anything they heard and that was it.” Then Vicarious got kinda absorbed and they were looking for other developers and it was over…the truth of it is they were trying to find someone to do 3 and 4 but they didn’t really trust anyone the way they did Vicarious. Even up until the release date of this, we were going 3 and 4. Activision is going through all their stuff so I don’t know what’s next.” Hawk said on stream. “I wish I could say we had something in the works, but Vicarious Visions got kinda disbanded. Hawk was asked about the status of a Pro Skater 3+4 and he explained how the merger of Vicarious Visions into Blizzard eventually led to plans for a sequel getting shelved. Recently, Tony Hawk appeared on a Twitch stream with streamer andyTHPS. Unfortunately for us fans of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2, it sounds like that’s exactly what happened. We never heard about any more remakes or sequels after that, and it was assumed that the merger ended any chance of a sequel ever happening. Unfortunately, despite the success of Pro Skater 1+2, the developers of the franchise - Vicarious Visions - were later merged into the Blizzard umbrella of Activision Blizzard. Those of us at UPROXX loved it so much we made it our Game of The Year for 2020.Īfterwards, the immediate question on everyone’s mind was if the other two Pro Skater games, 3 and 4, would get the same treatment.

The result was a game that both longtime fans and newcomers to the franchise could play and enjoy. The remake of the first two Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games managed to perfectly find that ground between how we all nostalgically felt the games should play, while also modernizing itself to feel really good on modern day consoles. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is one of the best skateboarding games ever made.

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