Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3+4 was formally introduced earlier this week and whereas it seems to be to be an excellent remake of some standard PS2-era skateboarding video games, one large change involving timed challenges in THPS4 is likely to 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 ready to launch in July. And whereas it can characteristic the previous maps, songs, skaters, and methods followers keep in mind from the basic video games, there can be at the very least one large change involving THPS 4‘s profession mode.
Kotaku was in a position to verify with Activision that THPS 3+4 won’t embody 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 degree will characteristic an inventory of challenges to finish in a 2-minute run.
This isn’t the way it labored within the unique 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 have been free to skate round, discover, and accumulate cash.
When information of this primary broke on the Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater subreddit, there was a number of disappointment from followers of THPS4. That they had hoped that the extra freeform profession mode—which later advanced 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 gained’t in a position to full degree challenges in that mode. For some gamers this can be a dealbreaker, with some complaints stating that this sport is actually only a remake of THPS3 with ranges from THPS4 added in as a bonus.
Personally, as somebody who at all times discovered THPS4 to be the oddball of the basic video games—inferior to THPS3 and never as recent 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 a giant bummer.
Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3+4 launches July 11 on Xbox, Sport Go, PlayStation, Swap, and PC.
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