Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 remasters were in the works but they were scrapped after Vicarious Visions was merged into Blizzard. It’s disappointing and a little frustrating to confirm that Vicarious Visions intended to develop Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 prior to the decision to merge it into Blizzard, especially if Activision had no backup plan for how to continue the franchise without this team. The merger was announced to be officially complete this past April. Play as a professional skater or create your own and skate around. It was announced in January 2021 that Vicarious Visions was being fully absorbed into Blizzard, where they would collectively develop Diablo II: Resurrected. Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3: With Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Kareem Campbell, Rune Glifberg. So they took other pitches from other studios, like, “What would you do with the THPS title?’ And they didn’t like anything heard, and then that was it.” And then Vicarious got kind of absorbed, and then (Activision was) looking for other developers, and then it was over.” Hawk went on to elaborate, “The truth of it is they were trying to find someone to do 3 and 4, but they just didn’t really trust anyone the way they did Vicarious. In a livestream with andyTHPS, Hawk explained, “Even up until the release date of ( Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2), we were going 3 and 4. And according to legendary skater Tony Hawk himself, that was actually the plan - until the merger of Vicarious Visions into Blizzard cut those plans short. This is what future entries continued to build on, but it was already very well done in its first iteration here.After publisher Activision Blizzard and developer Vicarious Visions released the well-received remake Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2, speculation naturally arose that a 3 + 4 remake would come next. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 is the game-changer of the bunch though, as it was the one that introduced an open career mode that was more like Free Skate mode. Even so, the third entry continued to improve on the first two and offered a barrage of fun challenges for players to complete. They introduced a lot of new ideas to the series, such as the 'revert' in THPS 3, which was actually added into the remasters of the first two games to make them feel more fully-fledged. THPS 3 and 4 were both great games that would be glorious to see realised on modern hardware. What better way to show that than by bringing back a much-requested game like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4? While we do not know to what degree Microsoft and Xbox will be taking part in day-to-day decisions once they own Activision Blizzard, there is no question that they will want the companies under them to fulfil their own vision of games for everyone.
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