Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3+4 was formally introduced earlier this week and whereas it appears to be an important remake of some well-liked PS2-era skateboarding video games, one large change involving timed challenges in THPS4 could be a dealbreaker for some gamers.
After some teases and rumors, Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3+4 was introduced on March 4. The sport, like 2020’s THPS 1+2, is a full remake of two previous video games from the Tony Hawk franchise, particularly Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 and 4. The brand new remake is being developed by Iron Galaxy and is about to launch in July. And whereas it’ll characteristic the outdated maps, songs, skaters, and methods followers bear in mind from the basic video games, there will probably be at the least one large change involving THPS 4‘s profession mode.
Kotaku was capable of verify with Activision that THPS 3+4 is not going to embrace the unique profession mode seen within the OG model of THPS4 on the PS2. As an alternative, like within the first three video games, every THPS4 stage will characteristic a listing of challenges to finish in a 2-minute run.
This isn’t the way it labored within the authentic THPS4. That sport let gamers skate round ranges freely and discover challenges to finish. Whereas many of those challenges did have timers, between these challenges gamers had been free to skate round, discover, and acquire cash.
When information of this primary broke on the Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater subreddit, there was lots of disappointment from followers of THPS4. They’d hoped that the extra freeform profession mode—which later developed into the open world of Tony Hawk’s Underground—could be recreated for the brand new remake. That’s not the case.
There’ll nonetheless be a free skate choice in THPS4 ranges, letting you freely skate round and discover, however you received’t capable of full stage challenges in that mode. For some gamers it is a dealbreaker, with some complaints stating that this sport is absolutely only a remake of THPS3 with ranges from THPS4 added in as a bonus.
Personally, as somebody who all the time discovered THPS4 to be the oddball of the basic video games—not so good as THPS3 and never as contemporary as THUG—I’m not too upset about these modifications. However I can perceive that for followers of THPS4, the modifications to profession mode are an enormous bummer.
Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3+4 launches July 11 on Xbox, Recreation Cross, PlayStation, Swap, and PC.
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