Tony Hawk Working with Activision on a Console Version of the THPS Series

[Gramps91]

I really hope it does well. I put so many hours into THUG1 and 2 as well as American Wasteland.

[JazzMan]

I'm dying for Skate 4, but if we could get a return to a THPS/THUG style game, I'm all for it.

[darkknightrises]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

... has nothing to do with this conversation. It is interesting that they completely ditched a mobile effort. Are the first two THPS games available in the PSX store? I would get THPS 2 for Vita in a heartbeat. Outside of career, my friend and I played Tag at the school on THPS 2 for hours on end, literally.

I made a joke about I don't know what is more likely madden to be good again or tony hawk to be good again and someone said something about how 2k games have there problems and how some people think madden is good so it had to do with that.


I don't even now how much time I played tony hawk 3,4, underground 1 and 2 and wasteland but it was a lot.

[AUChase]

I haven't played a Skateboarding game in a long time.

If it's along the lines of Underground 1-2 that would be awesome.

After those two, I haven't enjoyed any Tony Hawk games that much.

Skate, on the other hand, has been amazing.

It's not as popular of a thing, but a BMX game would also be welcome (Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX, anyone ? ), but that's a discussion for another day

[jyoung]

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Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX, anyone?

The first two Dave Mirra games were actually better than Activision's competing Matt Hoffman titles at the time -- probably because Activision was farming out their BMX series to some smaller studios instead of giving them to Neversoft.

I loved the "Biggest Bail" competition in the original Dave Mirra where it would judge how hard you crashed, how many bones you broke, and how far your rag doll body flew.

Dave Mirra 2 was a huge improvement on the original. You could free roam through the entire level at once instead of being limited to a series of 2-minute runs.

I never played Dave Mirra 3 on Wii, so I dunno how that one turned out. It wasn't made by the original team (Z-Axis).

Z-Axis also made Aggressive Inline, which remains one of the best extreme sports games ever made.

[Blzer]

BMX XXX had bad gameplay, but boy did I love renting that game...

[jyoung]

BMX XXX...what a disaster that was. It was the game that finally finished off Acclaim and put them into bankruptcy.

Dave Mirra himself took Acclaim to court to get his named removed from the series after he found out about the "adult" direction they were taking the game.

Then Acclaim spent a ton of money promoting BMX XXX that they never made back in sales, as the game was banned in some countries and not stocked at all in most major American retailers.

Supposedly it sold less than 100,000 units worldwide on PS2, Xbox, and GameCube combined.

[darkknightrises]

I rented either projected 8 or proven ground on ps3 years ago and the graphics where great but man the game play sucked and form what I heard sheard and ride where a lot worse. I wonder when we are going to get are first info for this game?