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General THPS(X) / Canceled Skate or Die Reboot's Influence on Tony Hawk series
« on: June 20, 2017, 08:57:56 am »
A new article on Unseen64 talks about how EA Games commissioned Criterion Games to develop a Skate or Die reboot for Xbox and Playstation 2 in 2002. The game would have allowed you to get off your board and walk; a feature that was not included in a Tony Hawk game until the 2003 release of Tony Hawk's Underground. It was also planned to feature skate shops that you could walk into and buy boards, like in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. There is a good chance that Neversoft was inspired by the planned features for this game. It may have even inspired the changes that took place between Pro Skater 3 and Pro Skater 4, since talking to pedestrians to start goals was one of the planned features for the Skate or Die reboot, prior to the release of Pro Skater 4.
I'm not sure if anything was publicly known about the Skate or Die reboot at its time of development, but it sounds like the developers at Criterion were pretty angry at EA because of their unrealistic demands. Criterion may have shared their work with Neversoft out of spite for the way EA was treating them, or they may have just wanted their work to live on in some form.
https://www.unseen64.net/2017/06/20/skate-die-reboot-xbox-ps2-cancelled/
I'm not sure if anything was publicly known about the Skate or Die reboot at its time of development, but it sounds like the developers at Criterion were pretty angry at EA because of their unrealistic demands. Criterion may have shared their work with Neversoft out of spite for the way EA was treating them, or they may have just wanted their work to live on in some form.
https://www.unseen64.net/2017/06/20/skate-die-reboot-xbox-ps2-cancelled/
