Tony Hawk Professional Skater 1+2 was such an surprising franchise resurgence that it had many followers, previous and new, excited for no matter Vicarious Visions was slated to do subsequent on the planet of skateboarding video video games.
The logical subsequent transfer, or no less than what appeared logical to everybody, was for Vicarious to make Tony Hawk Professional Skater 3+4.
Effectively, in line with YouTuber and online game historian Liam Robertson, whereas investigating different cancelled initiatives, Vicarious Visions did certainly pitch THPS 3+4 to Activision, who rejected the pitch as a result of they wished Vicarious to proceed doing assist work on the Name Of Obligation franchise.
“Round launch there was a short flicker of hope that Vicarious Visions would get to satisfy their ambition of revamping Tony Hawks Professional Skater 3+4, however that quickly light,” Robertson explains.
“A pitch for such a undertaking was offered to Activision’s head shortly after the primary two have been completed, they usually [Activision] declined to greenlight it, once more telling the studio that they wished them to deal with supplementing their bigger franchises.”
Activision turning its groups into Name Of Obligation assist studios isn’t all that shocking as we’ve appear it earlier than, and whereas Robertson’s claims will seemingly at all times stay rumours on an official degree, it’s not too tough to consider that Activision killed any undertaking that in its eyes would’ve taken an excessive amount of time away from work on Name Of Obligation.
Supply – [Liam Robertson via VGC]