The gaming community will not seem to be screaming for another in the “Tony Hawk” skateboarding game series, given the lackluster sales and critical mauling given to the most release, but that’s not deterring the famed athlete – that’s right, another game is on the way, this time a direct sequel to the spectacularly unsuccessful “Tony Hawk: Ride”, which was released last November.
Despite its critical panning and commercial failure (selling barely a hundred and thousand units in the US in its debut month, despite massive promotion), Hawk says a sequel is now all but a certainty. “We have already started that process,” he told GameSpot UK back in November. “As far as I’m concerned, it’s all systems go with trying to make at least a sequel for this because I feel like we’ve only just really tapped what’s possible with this technology.” Given the sales, one could be forgiven for thinking that optimism might have fallen, but just yesterday Hawk reported via his Twitter account that all systems were still go for the next installment. “Just met with @robomodo about our next project and it’s already much better than expected,” he tweeted, saying only that more information would be available “soon”.
The online gaming community has reacted with predictable disdain for the news, the comments section on computerandvideogames.com flooded with disparaging remarks about the proposal. “Why? Just why?” asked user , Thefatness16 , while Cwagmire21 summed up the general consensus with “I don’t get it. The last good TH game was in 2002. Why do they keep making them?”
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I think the media is getting it wrong about the sales. It’s done quite well despite the bad reviews. Kids on the Wii love it evidently.