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Yes, you've all heard it. Tony Hawk, arguably the best skateboarder ever and star of no less than four games spread across six machines, was recently had his likeness signed up by Activision until 2015. When we heard the news, no doubt we laughed even harder than when Acclaim announced a new Turok game...but was it such a stupid idea after all? Core has Lara Croft, the most famous female in gaming. Sega has Sonic, the greatest hedgehog ever to grace our screens. So, could Tony Hawk be the man to lead Activision into the gaming elite? Almost certainly. What, you didn't think we were just going to see 13 skateboarding games, did you!?
Tony Hawk's 5 - of course, there will be SOME skate-em-ups. Hawk's is one hell of a license, not to mention the best damned extreme sports title around, so it should come as not surprise when I inform you that before number four has even been finished, work is starting on the fifth installment. There will be radical changes abound, with the men from Activision saying that they are now taking the franchise in a whole new direction - that's right, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 will be cell-shaded! You will be able to thrash around two dozen bright-coloured forests, dungeons and town-squares as a twelve year old Tony Hawk, in a quest to look cool. There will also be an all new gameplay element added, never before seen in videogame history ever at all: Slo-Mo-In-The-Zone-Time. Completely different to the options in Max Payne, Dead to Rights and Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth, Tony will be able to slow down time in order to bust tricks with increasingly silly names, such as the 'limp foxtrot' and '43.102'.
Mortal Komhawk - see what they did there? Swapping bat for hawk? Tony Hawk? Anyways, with Tekken stuck in a rut, the Dead Or Alive gang busy playing volleyball in tiny bikinis and Virtua Fighter being rubbish, a new beat-em-up is needed. Enter Activision, with their newly acquired Tony Hawk license. All your favourite characters such as Barry Burnquist and that skater guy from Jackass are included, introduced in the brilliant FMV explaining their complicated reasons for joining the Iron Skateboard tournament, which include missing sisters, a quest to win the heart of a fair maiden, and closet homosexuality. The detailed character models will include baggy trousers actually having the bottoms eroded as they sweep against the floor through the course of battle, and chains that can inadvertedly swing round from your pocket and hit you in the knackers when jumping. Including weapons such as grip tape and Korn CDs, and just plain stupid amounts of blood, Mortal Komhawk is shaping up to give all fighting games a run for their money.
Grand True Crime on Two Wheels - with titles like Vice City, Mafia and The Getaway all getting ready to turn mild-mannered 10-year olds into crazed, bloodthirsty lunatics, Activison are getting in on the act too with their very own crime spree simulator...skating style! That's right, you assume the role of Tony Hawk, just released from a stretch in jail for not wearing a helmet and protective padding whilst on his board. You're out to rebuild your once-high reputation, and the only way to do it is by stealing skateboards, grinding over old ladies and catching phat air off of police cars. You take a series of varied missions from various underground skateboard promoters, which include taking out the bolts from a rival's trucks, and stealing a hooded Limp Bizkit sweatshirt from the shops. Naturally, due to the graphic scenes of ridiculousness in Grand True Crime on Two Wheels, the game will get an 18 certificate - but who cares? This could be the killer-app to not only surpass GTA3, but kickflip over it!
Gran Tonysmo - watch out V Rally 3! Be careful, TOCA...there's a new kid in town! Gran Tonysmo sees you starting out as a lowly teenager with long greasy hair and no skateboard sponsor; but then, you take some trials and soon enough you're grabbing a used board from JJB Sports for less than 20,00 credits! Build your way up from street skater to board god by winning time trials, rallies and tournaments. Featuring an intricate power-up system for your deck, allowing you to put funny little stickers on the bottom and paint the wheels green, Gran Tonyismo could quite possibly be THE game to beat in this genre. Already, Activison has revealed that somewhere within the region of 200 boards are available to be unlocked, and that there are plans for expansion packs, including concept skateboards and even...*gasp*...scooters!
Sim Tony Hawk - the latest Tony Hawk game is also the best. Riding the huge wave of success owed to EA's The Sims, Activision has reveleaed their very own God game where you can have your very own pet Tony Hawk! You can customize his clothes (and even make your own with the planned costume editor), build him a house and even create a skate park in his backgarden! But beware, if you can't keep Tony happy then he may take his skateboard and bludgeon himself to death! With the promise of unpredictable shock events such as sudden paralysis, you'll never play the same game twice! With oodles of replay value, plus the fact that this is the only game where you can pressure Tony Hawk into killing himself, this is going to be the Game of the Year for sure!
All of these games will be coming out on all three next generation consoles in 2003, with the exception of Sim Tony Hawk, which is only available on PC. Or, you know, I could have just made them all up =D
Thanks for reading, and I hope nobody did this already when the deal was first announced.
-swander87
Tony Hawk's 5 - of course, there will be SOME skate-em-ups. Hawk's is one hell of a license, not to mention the best damned extreme sports title around, so it should come as not surprise when I inform you that before number four has even been finished, work is starting on the fifth installment. There will be radical changes abound, with the men from Activision saying that they are now taking the franchise in a whole new direction - that's right, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 will be cell-shaded! You will be able to thrash around two dozen bright-coloured forests, dungeons and town-squares as a twelve year old Tony Hawk, in a quest to look cool. There will also be an all new gameplay element added, never before seen in videogame history ever at all: Slo-Mo-In-The-Zone-Time. Completely different to the options in Max Payne, Dead to Rights and Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth, Tony will be able to slow down time in order to bust tricks with increasingly silly names, such as the 'limp foxtrot' and '43.102'.
Mortal Komhawk - see what they did there? Swapping bat for hawk? Tony Hawk? Anyways, with Tekken stuck in a rut, the Dead Or Alive gang busy playing volleyball in tiny bikinis and Virtua Fighter being rubbish, a new beat-em-up is needed. Enter Activision, with their newly acquired Tony Hawk license. All your favourite characters such as Barry Burnquist and that skater guy from Jackass are included, introduced in the brilliant FMV explaining their complicated reasons for joining the Iron Skateboard tournament, which include missing sisters, a quest to win the heart of a fair maiden, and closet homosexuality. The detailed character models will include baggy trousers actually having the bottoms eroded as they sweep against the floor through the course of battle, and chains that can inadvertedly swing round from your pocket and hit you in the knackers when jumping. Including weapons such as grip tape and Korn CDs, and just plain stupid amounts of blood, Mortal Komhawk is shaping up to give all fighting games a run for their money.
Grand True Crime on Two Wheels - with titles like Vice City, Mafia and The Getaway all getting ready to turn mild-mannered 10-year olds into crazed, bloodthirsty lunatics, Activison are getting in on the act too with their very own crime spree simulator...skating style! That's right, you assume the role of Tony Hawk, just released from a stretch in jail for not wearing a helmet and protective padding whilst on his board. You're out to rebuild your once-high reputation, and the only way to do it is by stealing skateboards, grinding over old ladies and catching phat air off of police cars. You take a series of varied missions from various underground skateboard promoters, which include taking out the bolts from a rival's trucks, and stealing a hooded Limp Bizkit sweatshirt from the shops. Naturally, due to the graphic scenes of ridiculousness in Grand True Crime on Two Wheels, the game will get an 18 certificate - but who cares? This could be the killer-app to not only surpass GTA3, but kickflip over it!
Gran Tonysmo - watch out V Rally 3! Be careful, TOCA...there's a new kid in town! Gran Tonysmo sees you starting out as a lowly teenager with long greasy hair and no skateboard sponsor; but then, you take some trials and soon enough you're grabbing a used board from JJB Sports for less than 20,00 credits! Build your way up from street skater to board god by winning time trials, rallies and tournaments. Featuring an intricate power-up system for your deck, allowing you to put funny little stickers on the bottom and paint the wheels green, Gran Tonyismo could quite possibly be THE game to beat in this genre. Already, Activison has revealed that somewhere within the region of 200 boards are available to be unlocked, and that there are plans for expansion packs, including concept skateboards and even...*gasp*...scooters!
Sim Tony Hawk - the latest Tony Hawk game is also the best. Riding the huge wave of success owed to EA's The Sims, Activision has reveleaed their very own God game where you can have your very own pet Tony Hawk! You can customize his clothes (and even make your own with the planned costume editor), build him a house and even create a skate park in his backgarden! But beware, if you can't keep Tony happy then he may take his skateboard and bludgeon himself to death! With the promise of unpredictable shock events such as sudden paralysis, you'll never play the same game twice! With oodles of replay value, plus the fact that this is the only game where you can pressure Tony Hawk into killing himself, this is going to be the Game of the Year for sure!
All of these games will be coming out on all three next generation consoles in 2003, with the exception of Sim Tony Hawk, which is only available on PC. Or, you know, I could have just made them all up =D
Thanks for reading, and I hope nobody did this already when the deal was first announced.
-swander87
Yet more Tony Hawks games, great, just what we needed. I still haven't got any of the previous TH games, every time I decide to buy one, Activision announce another sequel, so I decide to wait for that one instead. Not interested in the series anymore, I'll stick with snowboarding and racing games from now on.
Adults on skateboards....
it's almost enough to make a man cry.
it's almost enough to make a man cry.
Pop.
Asher D wrote:
> Won't Tony Hawk have died by 2015?
...he's not even 50 yet.
> Won't Tony Hawk have died by 2015?
...he's not even 50 yet.
Won't Tony Hawk have died by 2015?
Yes, you've all heard it. Tony Hawk, arguably the best skateboarder ever and star of no less than four games spread across six machines, was recently had his likeness signed up by Activision until 2015. When we heard the news, no doubt we laughed even harder than when Acclaim announced a new Turok game...but was it such a stupid idea after all? Core has Lara Croft, the most famous female in gaming. Sega has Sonic, the greatest hedgehog ever to grace our screens. So, could Tony Hawk be the man to lead Activision into the gaming elite? Almost certainly. What, you didn't think we were just going to see 13 skateboarding games, did you!?
Tony Hawk's 5 - of course, there will be SOME skate-em-ups. Hawk's is one hell of a license, not to mention the best damned extreme sports title around, so it should come as not surprise when I inform you that before number four has even been finished, work is starting on the fifth installment. There will be radical changes abound, with the men from Activision saying that they are now taking the franchise in a whole new direction - that's right, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 will be cell-shaded! You will be able to thrash around two dozen bright-coloured forests, dungeons and town-squares as a twelve year old Tony Hawk, in a quest to look cool. There will also be an all new gameplay element added, never before seen in videogame history ever at all: Slo-Mo-In-The-Zone-Time. Completely different to the options in Max Payne, Dead to Rights and Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth, Tony will be able to slow down time in order to bust tricks with increasingly silly names, such as the 'limp foxtrot' and '43.102'.
Mortal Komhawk - see what they did there? Swapping bat for hawk? Tony Hawk? Anyways, with Tekken stuck in a rut, the Dead Or Alive gang busy playing volleyball in tiny bikinis and Virtua Fighter being rubbish, a new beat-em-up is needed. Enter Activision, with their newly acquired Tony Hawk license. All your favourite characters such as Barry Burnquist and that skater guy from Jackass are included, introduced in the brilliant FMV explaining their complicated reasons for joining the Iron Skateboard tournament, which include missing sisters, a quest to win the heart of a fair maiden, and closet homosexuality. The detailed character models will include baggy trousers actually having the bottoms eroded as they sweep against the floor through the course of battle, and chains that can inadvertedly swing round from your pocket and hit you in the knackers when jumping. Including weapons such as grip tape and Korn CDs, and just plain stupid amounts of blood, Mortal Komhawk is shaping up to give all fighting games a run for their money.
Grand True Crime on Two Wheels - with titles like Vice City, Mafia and The Getaway all getting ready to turn mild-mannered 10-year olds into crazed, bloodthirsty lunatics, Activison are getting in on the act too with their very own crime spree simulator...skating style! That's right, you assume the role of Tony Hawk, just released from a stretch in jail for not wearing a helmet and protective padding whilst on his board. You're out to rebuild your once-high reputation, and the only way to do it is by stealing skateboards, grinding over old ladies and catching phat air off of police cars. You take a series of varied missions from various underground skateboard promoters, which include taking out the bolts from a rival's trucks, and stealing a hooded Limp Bizkit sweatshirt from the shops. Naturally, due to the graphic scenes of ridiculousness in Grand True Crime on Two Wheels, the game will get an 18 certificate - but who cares? This could be the killer-app to not only surpass GTA3, but kickflip over it!
Gran Tonysmo - watch out V Rally 3! Be careful, TOCA...there's a new kid in town! Gran Tonysmo sees you starting out as a lowly teenager with long greasy hair and no skateboard sponsor; but then, you take some trials and soon enough you're grabbing a used board from JJB Sports for less than 20,00 credits! Build your way up from street skater to board god by winning time trials, rallies and tournaments. Featuring an intricate power-up system for your deck, allowing you to put funny little stickers on the bottom and paint the wheels green, Gran Tonyismo could quite possibly be THE game to beat in this genre. Already, Activison has revealed that somewhere within the region of 200 boards are available to be unlocked, and that there are plans for expansion packs, including concept skateboards and even...*gasp*...scooters!
Sim Tony Hawk - the latest Tony Hawk game is also the best. Riding the huge wave of success owed to EA's The Sims, Activision has reveleaed their very own God game where you can have your very own pet Tony Hawk! You can customize his clothes (and even make your own with the planned costume editor), build him a house and even create a skate park in his backgarden! But beware, if you can't keep Tony happy then he may take his skateboard and bludgeon himself to death! With the promise of unpredictable shock events such as sudden paralysis, you'll never play the same game twice! With oodles of replay value, plus the fact that this is the only game where you can pressure Tony Hawk into killing himself, this is going to be the Game of the Year for sure!
All of these games will be coming out on all three next generation consoles in 2003, with the exception of Sim Tony Hawk, which is only available on PC. Or, you know, I could have just made them all up =D
Thanks for reading, and I hope nobody did this already when the deal was first announced.
-swander87
Tony Hawk's 5 - of course, there will be SOME skate-em-ups. Hawk's is one hell of a license, not to mention the best damned extreme sports title around, so it should come as not surprise when I inform you that before number four has even been finished, work is starting on the fifth installment. There will be radical changes abound, with the men from Activision saying that they are now taking the franchise in a whole new direction - that's right, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 will be cell-shaded! You will be able to thrash around two dozen bright-coloured forests, dungeons and town-squares as a twelve year old Tony Hawk, in a quest to look cool. There will also be an all new gameplay element added, never before seen in videogame history ever at all: Slo-Mo-In-The-Zone-Time. Completely different to the options in Max Payne, Dead to Rights and Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth, Tony will be able to slow down time in order to bust tricks with increasingly silly names, such as the 'limp foxtrot' and '43.102'.
Mortal Komhawk - see what they did there? Swapping bat for hawk? Tony Hawk? Anyways, with Tekken stuck in a rut, the Dead Or Alive gang busy playing volleyball in tiny bikinis and Virtua Fighter being rubbish, a new beat-em-up is needed. Enter Activision, with their newly acquired Tony Hawk license. All your favourite characters such as Barry Burnquist and that skater guy from Jackass are included, introduced in the brilliant FMV explaining their complicated reasons for joining the Iron Skateboard tournament, which include missing sisters, a quest to win the heart of a fair maiden, and closet homosexuality. The detailed character models will include baggy trousers actually having the bottoms eroded as they sweep against the floor through the course of battle, and chains that can inadvertedly swing round from your pocket and hit you in the knackers when jumping. Including weapons such as grip tape and Korn CDs, and just plain stupid amounts of blood, Mortal Komhawk is shaping up to give all fighting games a run for their money.
Grand True Crime on Two Wheels - with titles like Vice City, Mafia and The Getaway all getting ready to turn mild-mannered 10-year olds into crazed, bloodthirsty lunatics, Activison are getting in on the act too with their very own crime spree simulator...skating style! That's right, you assume the role of Tony Hawk, just released from a stretch in jail for not wearing a helmet and protective padding whilst on his board. You're out to rebuild your once-high reputation, and the only way to do it is by stealing skateboards, grinding over old ladies and catching phat air off of police cars. You take a series of varied missions from various underground skateboard promoters, which include taking out the bolts from a rival's trucks, and stealing a hooded Limp Bizkit sweatshirt from the shops. Naturally, due to the graphic scenes of ridiculousness in Grand True Crime on Two Wheels, the game will get an 18 certificate - but who cares? This could be the killer-app to not only surpass GTA3, but kickflip over it!
Gran Tonysmo - watch out V Rally 3! Be careful, TOCA...there's a new kid in town! Gran Tonysmo sees you starting out as a lowly teenager with long greasy hair and no skateboard sponsor; but then, you take some trials and soon enough you're grabbing a used board from JJB Sports for less than 20,00 credits! Build your way up from street skater to board god by winning time trials, rallies and tournaments. Featuring an intricate power-up system for your deck, allowing you to put funny little stickers on the bottom and paint the wheels green, Gran Tonyismo could quite possibly be THE game to beat in this genre. Already, Activison has revealed that somewhere within the region of 200 boards are available to be unlocked, and that there are plans for expansion packs, including concept skateboards and even...*gasp*...scooters!
Sim Tony Hawk - the latest Tony Hawk game is also the best. Riding the huge wave of success owed to EA's The Sims, Activision has reveleaed their very own God game where you can have your very own pet Tony Hawk! You can customize his clothes (and even make your own with the planned costume editor), build him a house and even create a skate park in his backgarden! But beware, if you can't keep Tony happy then he may take his skateboard and bludgeon himself to death! With the promise of unpredictable shock events such as sudden paralysis, you'll never play the same game twice! With oodles of replay value, plus the fact that this is the only game where you can pressure Tony Hawk into killing himself, this is going to be the Game of the Year for sure!
All of these games will be coming out on all three next generation consoles in 2003, with the exception of Sim Tony Hawk, which is only available on PC. Or, you know, I could have just made them all up =D
Thanks for reading, and I hope nobody did this already when the deal was first announced.
-swander87