This was followed by the 2020 Remake of the first two games which was universally praised for faithfully capturing what made the series so great. The last mainline game in the series Pro Skater 5 received negative reviews from critics and fans alike, being a top contender for many worst games of 2015 lists. The Tony Hawk video game franchise has skated along a rocky road for the past few years. Like, ‘What would you do with the THPS title?’ And they didn’t like anything they heard, and then that was it.”

“The truth of it is that were trying to find somebody to do 3 + 4 but they just didn’t really trust anyone the way they did Vicarious, so they took other pitches from other studios. Hawk went on to say that Activision did look for other developers to work on the remake but was unimpressed by any of the pitches they were given. “And then Vicarious got kind of absorbed, and then they were looking for other developers, and then it was over.” “That was the plan even up until the release day of, we were going 3 + 4,” said Hawk.

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