'Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD' to blend parts of first two Hawk titles in early 2012 on 'digital platforms'

by Ben Gilbert on Dec 10th 2011 6:19PM

We cornered skateboarding figurehead Tony Hawk on the red carpet at this year's Spike Video Game Awards to get the skinny on that big announcement he has planned for the show -- as it turns out, the announcement is ... a Tony Hawk game! "Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD" will apparently take "select" levels from the first two Tony Hawk titles, HD-ify them, and wrap it all up in a neat digital package for "digital platforms" sometime in the first half of 2012.

Hawk told our man on the ground, Mike Schramm, that classic levels "School" and "Downhill" would make appearances, but didn't let on any more. The game will assuredly get a blowout tonight as the VGAs commence, so stay tuned! Or, uh, go watch old trailers of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 and 2. Either/or.

Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD will be the first entry in the series after an ambiguously worded shuttering of the franchise by publisher Activision late last year. Clearly the series isn't quite dead yet!

Update: Tony says the game will apparently arrive sometime during the summer, and will be priced "under $20." Also, we saw a brief bit of gameplay, and it looks pretty!

Tags: activision, q2-2012, release-date, spike-vga-2011, spike-vgas, spike-vgas-2011, tony-hawk, tony-hawk-pro-skater-hd, tony-hawks-pro-skater-hd

Reader Comments (51)

If Officer Dick is in it, day one buy.

@blackangel209

There will be hell to pay if he isn't. YOU HEAR ME ACTIVISION?!

Wait...first two? So they are skipping 3? TH3 was the best and should really be a part of this pack.

@Ellimem Should've been included, but doesn't rule out the possibility of a DLC addon at some point.

@Dekkadekka

This became overly complicated very quickly.

Let's hope this digital package is full of stuff and delivers a classic THPS experience.

@Dekkadekka

I am slightly okay with remakes of 10-year-old games. I don't think I am at all okay with DLC for remakes of 10-year-old-games.

@Ellimem
Exactly, TH3 was the best! I want an HD remake of the Tokyo level!

@Ellimem 100% agree

@Dekkadekka
DLC? From Activision? No way!

/s

@Ellimem that's when the series started to suck. The first two and possibly underground 1 were the only good ones.

@totalysharly Underground came after 4, which added the last worthwhile thing in the series: Spine transfers. 3 added tons of features that weren't in 2 and was a much better overall game than both 1 and 2.

In short: You couldn't be more wrong with that statement.

Please have the original soundtrack.

@Awkwardhugs

PRO SKATER 2 was AWESOME!!! I will gladly buy this game Tony.

@Awkwardhugs Superman by Pennywise, or no sale.

@(Unverified) Might want to change those aspirations of yours. Superman by Goldfinger, you mean.

What about our boards full of technology? Are they useless now?

@psnkillstrike
As if implying there was ever a use to begin with for them...

Besides swatting away pesky door-to-door solicitors of course.

I guess that's what happens after you can't sell new iterations of your $hi7y games.

YES this is what everyone has been asking for forever. Just please throw in reverts and it's a deal!

This in HD...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUrUBlyEhO8

@CaptainProtonX They don't make commercials like that anymore..

If they don't include the soundtracks, no buy. I still have my ps1 along with the first two games and still play them regularly because I love the music in the games

Should have redid Part 2 and 1 together.

THPS2 brings back so many memories.

@neoand12

"...levels from the first two Tony Hawk titles"

Sorry my comment is void.

I like the sound of this!

I'm guessing TH3 is seen as valuable enough to release as a remastered version by itself. 1 and 2 are similar enough to be combined, 3 is a bit more of a leap from what I can remember (basically nothing despite having played the **** out of the first 3 and some of 4).

@Dick Socrates they could be testing the waters and if this sells they should remaster 3 which was a great game imo and the best stake boarding game ever.

@Dick Socrates

I wouldn't be surprised if they have DLC of levels from the third game in a bundle that costs as much as a new retail game.

Oh look... We have a once great series. This series decided to be dumbed down and jump away from its roots, in hopes of better profits.

That series died off because of the switch. The publisher in order to bring it back to life, has return to their roots.

Seriously? Publishers and Developers need to keep their IPs onto their roots. Ditching them means you are ditching your loyal fanbase and negativity arises, which is a no no.

Not that hard, innovate within your roots. Don't Ditch Them!!!

But once they see the $$$ roll in from this I'm sure the men in suits will come up with the 'brilliant new idea' of THPS5.

Goddamn THPS3 was the greatest in the series. THE ACE OF SPADES, THE ACE OF SPADES!!!

While playing as Darth Maul. Good times.

@LinkRazr Wasn't 3 the one where they went ultra-goofy, the haunted house and the airport shite?

I think 2 was the summit for the series, but I don't know if I'm remembering correctly with all you guys saying 3.

@picaso trigger Well, I think the point everyone's agreeing on is that 3 was the best gameplay-wise, even if it got a little goofy. Reverts added a ton to the combo system without stretching it out in unneeded directions, like Nail the Trick or on-foot sections. It made vertical skating viable for big combos, which I always found missing from 1 and 2.

THPS3 was on GC/PS2 (probably Xbox), THPS2 was on PSA1/N64.

@Once known as Shadsy You, sir, speak too much sense for these comments. We don't take kindly to your fancy logic and reason.

@LinkRazr Heck yeah IF YOU LIKE TO GAMBLE RAH RAH RAGH RAGH *dun nuh nuh nuh nuh, dun nuh nuh nut nuh* THE ACE OF SPADES THE ACE OF SPADES

@Once known as Shadsy

Yeah, but it just says they're taking levels from 1 and 2, which is fine by me I hated the levels in 3 ... even with gameplay advances.

I kind of expected something like this to come from EA and the Skate franchise, where'd they go back and make a retro version with all the skaters we grew up with... but this as Arcade download is fine too.

wasn't tony hawk pro skater 2 the first game to be playable online with ps2? i remember taking a unoffical usb adpator to connect online with online to play.

@abercrombieco2 That's THPS3 you're remembering. :)

@slickie ah my bad =) , they should do pro 3 and underground together then.

Please let the game have old-school physics...

This joker doesn't need another video game. Skateboarding games in general needs to go on hold. Time for a new BMX game. Dave Mirra or Matt Hoffman need to make a come back.

School was my favorite level, AWESOME!

@Master Troll
School and Venice, FTW!

I just keep telling myself...

There's no way they can screw this up, there's no way they can screw this up, there's no way to screw...

This announcement - genius. I loved Tony Hawk games, but they started to wane and the last one "Ride" - I didn't even try...

Can't wait for this... will purchase if price is right.

No love for THPS3 :(

Ohhh man I hope this will have School II as well, because I loved skating The Leap Of Faith and the Carlsbad gap in one level!

Day 1. THPS and THPS2 remain my two most-played games ever. Wish the levels were ALL there, tho.

THPS3 would be great, but if I was a betting man I would say the inclusion would break game mechanics. 3 was the first that you could do hip-transfers. There were a lot of levels in 1&2 that could likely be broken with that in there.

Extra points if they include the park editor from 2.

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