Good afternoon ladies, gentlemen and those of a non-binary nature, my name is Daibhi and this is the Gamerhub. For those gamers among us of a certain vintage, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games were the daddy of multiplayer games. Yes, Medal Of Honour was cool, Goldeneye 007 made for a great party game, but nothing came close to watching your best friend faceplant after performing the sickest of sick combos. For a lot of us, our love of extreme sports and hard rock music came from this game. Naturally, I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t do their best Bon Scott impression when hearing the opening of TNT by AC/DC. Neither should you. Not only did the Pro Skater game open up new worlds for a certain era of delinquent young gamers, it revolutionised how we saw competitive gaming.
This is even more impressive when you realised that online gaming really wasn’t a thing. Pro Skater 3 is widely regarded as the zenith of this era, but sadly, Pro Skater 4 is unfairly maligned. After all, with the exception of introducing spine transfer tricks, this game didn’t do much to change the formula. Simply put, the game had gigantic skate parks, a free roam mode to explore and work out your next trick route and more hidden tricks than you could shake a broken skateboard at.
In 2020 (the year from Hell itself), we got the remaster of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skaters 1 +2 in the form of one single game with a whole lot of new tricks. I reviewed it on here in the September of that year, and while we didn’t have the ratings system as down as we do now, I gave it a very good review, whilst criticising the price point. However, being fair, we were all locked inside and I didn’t deal with it as healthily as others did. It remains one of my most played games on my Xbox and I love playing it on my Nintendo Switch as well. I adore that game, and tonight, on the 4th of March 2025, the sequel’s trailer dropped onto social media. The internet, and social media, understandably, is having kittens. So this article is just going to tell you what we know, and then a little bit of punditry.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4 is getting released to the general public on July 11th this year. The game is being developed by Iron Galaxy, who made Killer Instinct. From my perspective, that’s a good thing. Here at Gamerhub, we love Iron Galaxy. They’re brilliant, and we love to review their games. It means that the remaster of two of the games that helped me stave off growing up are in safe hands. If I can break the fourth wall any more than I already am doing, when I read through the information we can share at this moment, reading that Iron Galaxy were in charge of making this remaster made me sigh an audible sigh of relief.
In terms of price points, this game is not as expensive as I thought it might be. We’re now entering an era where getting the latest video game is incredibly expensive, but you won’t have to break the piggy bank too much for this. For a standard version, you’ll have to pay $49.99, and for the deluxe edition, it’s $69.99. The collector’s version, which I imagine a lot of people will want, it’s going to set you back $129.99. So let’s talk about what your money gets you. Pre order this game, like I will be doing in May, and you’ll get to play this game 3 days early on the 8th of July. The standard version is exactly that: The game itself. No bells and whistles. If you want bells and whistles, the deluxe version will get you skins for the game. Doom Slayer and Revenant skater skins to be precise. It will also bring you some exclusive in-game decks and create-a-skater options not available in the standard version. There is one thing I haven’t mentioned yet that might sway nostalgic gamers to buy the Deluxe version- The Deluxe version includes a full-band version of the original Doom E1M1 them song, which definitely appeals to us here at The Hub.
What comes with the Collector’s Edition deserves its own paragraph. Throughout the years, Collector’s editions have given us all sorts of knickknacks. From the “19 inches of Venom” model in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, to the frankly abysmal stuff people paid far too much for in their Collector’s Edition of Fallout 76. This game seems to be a lot more of the former and less of the latter. If you’re willing to shell $129.99 on the Collector’s Edition of this game, you’ll also get an exclusive physical skate deck by Birdhouse. Imagine being able to skate on a board designed for the game in real life, and you have the idea.
If you pre-order the game right now: You can get access to two parks and two skaters in a demo available right f**king now. That’s right, you can play a part of this game as I type this on my PC. It comes with two skaters, two parks and apparently a good chunk of the soundtrack. I know for me, personally, I’m looking at my wallet and wishing I could afford to pre-order it now.
This game is due to launch on every major console and PC. That means Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series family of consoles, and PC. For those who don’t use Steam, fear not. This game is also available to get on Battle.Net and Microsoft Store. One big point for the Xbox gamers among us is that if you have Xbox’s Game Pass- You can play this game as it becomes available on day one! Yup, day one. Here at the Hub, we don’t engage in console rivalry, but we reckon a lot of Xbox gamers might be feeling particularly smug here.
So, that’s all we can tell you right now about the game, although as we get more news, we will of course, let you all know. We love these games, and we know you do too. At least if our inboxes are to be believed, anyway.
For the Gamerhub, I’ve been Daibhi and you are all legends.
Time to go and play through the old games again
