Following the immense success of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1+2, Vicarious Visions was planning on giving Pro Staker 3 and 4 the remaster treatment as well, but Activision pulled the plug.
That’s according to none other than Tony Hawk himself. During a Twitch live stream with former Neversoft designer Andy Gentile, Hawk stated that Pro Skater 3+4 was real until Vicarious Visions merged with Activision Blizzard.
“That was the plan; even up until the release day of , we were going 3+4,” Hawk said. “And then Vicarious got kind of absorbed, and then they were looking for other developers, and then it was over.”
Vicarious Visions, the studio behind Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1+2, became part of Blizzard and made Diablo 2: Resurrected.
“The truth of it is, they were trying to find someone to do 3+4, but they just didn’t really trust anyone the way they did Vicarious ,” Hawk continues. “So they took pitches from other studios, like ‘what would you do with a title?’ and they didn’t like what they heard, and then that was it.”
A crying shame, really. Many consider Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 the best entry in the series. It had playable Darth Maul, for goodness sake!
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.