Jason Bakker of Metal Arcade writes:
It’s becoming quite the trend to remake things these days. Whether they’re full-fledged, built-from-scratch updates like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD, or simple gussied-up HD collections, it seems like a month hardly goes by without mention of a new classic getting the hi-res treatment. It makes sense from a business standpoint: take a tried and true formula that’s proven to sell millions, put a small amount of effort into some upgraded modeling and texturing, and voila. A license to print money. Some of these games are best left to our memories, as age hasn’t been kind to them. But sometimes, a game is so classic that even the hands of time can’t blemish its greatness. Considering that PlayStation gamers have had backwards compatibility yanked out from under them, Tony Hawk HD is the best (and only) way for fans to relive a late-90s classic.
PC Aficionado: "Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD will be taken down from Steam next week, on July 17. You can get it for 80 percent off now."
That bad huh? Not even worth $1.99 bad? I would have sworn that there was a new Tony Hawk Pro Skater game in development, I might be confusing that with this "HD remaster" however. Loved the 1st two THPS games back in the day, they were tons of fun with killer soundtracks! "If you like to gamble, I tell you I'm your man, You win some, lose some, it's all the same to me, The pleasure is to play, makes no difference what you say, I don't share your greed, the only card I need is The Ace Of Spades!"
I remember buying my little brother the 1st Skate game after it released, he was big into skateboarding at the time. I didn't have a lot of experience with the game but what I played was fairly realistic, with great visuals and physics for the time. Skate 3 released back in 2010 so we're way overdue for a worthy skateboarding game, a Skate 4 could be really good with today's gaming tech. advances and hardware capabilities. It will never happen but could you imagine a skateboarding game utilizing a physics engine like Euphoria that's used exclusively in Rockstar games, it would be incredible.
Saying you like the first two THPS and quote a song from THPS 3 lol. Anyways, I really want a true remake of THPS 4 or THUG 1.
@madforaday I thought Ace of Spades was in THPS 1 or 2, didn't know it was in 3. I liked 3 as well. All 3 games had excellent soundtracks. It's been so many years since I've played them though, it's easy to get them mixed up.
It's worse than the games before it in the series (ignoring Tony Hawk Shred) but it's still worth $2.
Neil writes "This week's Xbox Live Deals With Gold sale is now here and it brings you the chance to grab a number of discounted titles. But which are the best Xbox One and Xbox 360 offers on the table between the 31st May - 6th June 2016...and which are the worst?"
It's not a great sale and doesn't bode well for Battleborn being price cut already.
Here are this week’s games and add-on deals on the Xbox Games Store. Discounts are valid now through June 6th 2016.
Spent hours playing Tony Pro Skater 1-4 (maybe 3) and the bmx game that came out by the same company (Dave Mirra?) great games Jet Moto needs the same treatment.