After having started in 1999 with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, the Tony Hawk series of video games has enjoyed its fair share of highs and lows. None perhaps higher than its fantastic Pro Skate series, which lasted from 1999 until 2002 with four games released in the series, and none lower than 'RIDE' in 2009, which came with an awful skateboard motion-control peripheral, making for all-round pretty average game.
What the series started and ended as are two different things, with Tony Hawk 'retiring' from games following the critical and commercial failure of 'SHRED' in late-2010, the second game in as many years to use the ill-fated skateboard controller.
His retirement wouldn't last long, though, with the world-renowned skateboard champion revealing 'Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD' and this past weekend's VGAs.
PC Aficionado: "Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD will be taken down from Steam next week, on July 17. You can get it for 80 percent off now."
That bad huh? Not even worth $1.99 bad? I would have sworn that there was a new Tony Hawk Pro Skater game in development, I might be confusing that with this "HD remaster" however. Loved the 1st two THPS games back in the day, they were tons of fun with killer soundtracks! "If you like to gamble, I tell you I'm your man, You win some, lose some, it's all the same to me, The pleasure is to play, makes no difference what you say, I don't share your greed, the only card I need is The Ace Of Spades!"
I remember buying my little brother the 1st Skate game after it released, he was big into skateboarding at the time. I didn't have a lot of experience with the game but what I played was fairly realistic, with great visuals and physics for the time. Skate 3 released back in 2010 so we're way overdue for a worthy skateboarding game, a Skate 4 could be really good with today's gaming tech. advances and hardware capabilities. It will never happen but could you imagine a skateboarding game utilizing a physics engine like Euphoria that's used exclusively in Rockstar games, it would be incredible.
Saying you like the first two THPS and quote a song from THPS 3 lol. Anyways, I really want a true remake of THPS 4 or THUG 1.
@madforaday I thought Ace of Spades was in THPS 1 or 2, didn't know it was in 3. I liked 3 as well. All 3 games had excellent soundtracks. It's been so many years since I've played them though, it's easy to get them mixed up.
It's worse than the games before it in the series (ignoring Tony Hawk Shred) but it's still worth $2.
Neil writes "This week's Xbox Live Deals With Gold sale is now here and it brings you the chance to grab a number of discounted titles. But which are the best Xbox One and Xbox 360 offers on the table between the 31st May - 6th June 2016...and which are the worst?"
It's not a great sale and doesn't bode well for Battleborn being price cut already.
Here are this week’s games and add-on deals on the Xbox Games Store. Discounts are valid now through June 6th 2016.
cant wait, best skater series in the biz.
well so far they got the name of the game right in my opinion.
It would not be the same without the amazing soundtrack.
1st 2 were great... downhill after that.
I'm gonna give it a try. I miss tony hawk games.