It looks like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4 are getting remade, for real this time.
After one skater blurted out he’s in the next Tony Hawk game, and a teaser spotted in Call Of Duty Black Ops 6’s new map, and an active countdown is ticking on the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater website, all signs are showing that the follow-up to Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2, presumably titled as Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4, is coming.
A new post by the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater account shows a group picture of the birdman himself alongside fellow skaters Steve Caballero, Kareem Campbell, Eric Koston and Rodney Mullen with a big banner simply stating a date: 3.4.25.
All of the skaters mentioned, all of them growing older by the time, are featured as playable characters in the original release of THPS 3 and THPS 4.
It won’t be long until March 3 (since publisher Activision operates in the US, the date is displayed in the mm/dd/yyyy format) where we likely know what exactly is happening.
It would be cool that it’s a full remake of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4, with most if not all of the licensed content (they can totally get the Doom Slayer be a hidden skater again especially now that Activision and Bethesda are under one roof). It would be lame if it’s literally adding new parks from THPS 3 and 4 to the existing THPS 1+2.
THPS 3 is the last of Tony Hawk games to use the 2-minute time limit as the main gameplay loop. This title is also the first to grace the 5th-gen consoles (PS2, OG Xbox, Gamecube).
Meanwhile, THPS 4 was a paradigm shift. The career mode removes the time limit in favour of a fully explorable open world where you skate to people and initiate missions instead of doing as many objectives under 2 minutes. That game released in 2002, a year after GTA III was released and influenced many games after it with its approach to open world game design.
The original developers of THPS 1+2, Vicarious Visions, has now been subsumed into Blizzard.