Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 will be available through Steam now that its three year exclusivity agreement with Epic Games has expired.
Originally released in 2020, the remakes will come to Steam on October 3 though no price point has been announced. As well as a standard edition, there is a digital deluxe edition of the game that features a handful of in-game items for players to unlock.
These are The Ripper skater, a set of retro outfits for skaters Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero and Rodney Mullen, and “unique retro content for the Create-A-Skater mode” including retro skateboard decks.
In NME‘s five-star review of the remakes, the games were described as a “a love letter to a forgotten genre that is bound to inspire a whole new generation of skaters”.
“When the muscle memory comes back and you start to string together impossible lines throughout the game’s exotic, remastered environments, you really feel like a skateboarding superhero,” wrote Jordan Oloman.
Last year, it was revealed that remakes of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 were originally on the agenda before Vicarious Visions was merged with Activision Blizzard.
“[Activision] were trying to find someone to do 3 + 4 but they didn’t trust anyone the way they did Vicarious,” explained Tony Hawk in a Twitch stream. “So they took other pitches from other studios, like ‘what would you do with the THPS title?’ and they didn’t like anything they heard, and that was it.”
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