Disappointing news has emerged via Activision who have confirmed to Kotaku that the career mode for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 has been scrapped in favour of timed-based challenges. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 is under development by established team Iron Galaxy and is scheduled to be released on the Nintendo Switch and other platforms on 11th July.
“Kotaku was able to confirm with Activision that THPS 3+4 will not include the original career mode seen in the OG version of THPS4 on the PS2. Instead, like in the first three games, each THPS4 level will feature a list of challenges to complete in a 2-minute run.
This isn’t how it worked in the original THPS4. That game let players skate around levels freely and find challenges to complete. While many of these challenges did have timers, between those challenges players were free to skate around, explore, and collect money.”
Not a deal-breaker for me
This might be a deal breaker had i not already pre ordered THPS 3 & 4, but i’m not gonna cancel my pre order. Time based challenges might be an interesting concept.
It’s a shame but not the end of the world. Should be noted that assuming it’s very much like THPS 1+2, that game had a free skate mode, so you will have the option of free skating around the THPS 4 (and 3) levels, just the challenges from the original won’t be present.
BRING BACK BAM MARGERA!
Idc about this news, but screw the media for shitting on this man.
VIVA LA BAM! 💥
Well, no money.
I was really looking forward to 4 specifically because of the free roaming story mode. It was so much fun you could get off your board and run around and get your perfect set up or just mess around. This is probably a deal breaker for me because I am not dying for 3 and now 4 isn’t the game I liked from before. Bummer.
I can get behind that reason. It’d be like removing the open world from a remaster of the original NFS: Most Wanted.