![]() “And we wanted to spend a good bit of time making sure the environments looked lush. “The animators spent trying to capture the nuance of how a skater moves, as opposed to having these really sharp turns that were very arcady back in the day,” says Vicarious Visions studio head Jennifer ONeal. It's meant to be just like the old games, but with a glossy new HD paint job. OG fans will immediately recognize the original levels and characters, or be able to jump in to Create-A-Park mode seamlessly. The attention could be focused on the details. Having some of the original code from Neversoft in place made the process much more seamless than it was 21 years ago. With games as beloved as THPS 1 and 2, Vicarious Visions wanted to make sure that these remastered versions were as close to the source material as possible. We felt like we could bring something that much more exciting to it.” We're literally four consoles further than we were on the first game. “There's been so much technology advancement since then. Once we actually said the word ‘remaster,’ it was all systems go,” Hawk told Complex. The fans are always asking about doing these remasters, that was kind of it. "I was working on a fundraiser for the and the whole thing was sort of a celebration of THPS as a series and I needed Activision's approval or support to do it. ![]() Sane Trilogy remaster, hope to bring millions back to that time and introduce millions more to it with the launch of the remastered Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 video game. Installments in more recent years caused the series to sputter out, but everyone loves some nostalgia, and plenty have been yearning for a new THPS game to satisfy their appetitie. Today, publisher Activison and developer Vicarious Visions, the same company responsible for 2017’s acclaimed Crash Bandicoot N. For a lot of people, just that sentence alone might be enough to bring memories flooding back of the hours spent playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater with their buddies growing up, collecting yellow “S-K-A-T-E” letters, and finding the secret tape on each level.ĭebuted in 1999, the game bearing Hawk’s name was the beginning of one of the most iconic franchises in the history of video games that has sold billions of copies to date and brought skateboarding to the mainstream in a way it never was before. Breaking through a rectangular glass window and bombing a hill into a warehouse filled with half pipes and handrails while “Superman” by Goldfinger blasts through your television screen is a sequence etched into the minds of plenty of kids and teens who grew up in the late ‘90s. ![]()
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