Now that Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 is lastly out, gamers have begun discovering that the soundtrack for the title may really feel like a little bit of a disappoint in case you’ve been a long-time fan of the franchise. As caught by VGC, the soundtrack for Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4, which incorporates 64 tracks, solely contains 10 songs coming back from the unique THPS 3 and 4.
For the sake of comparability, because of this 54 of the tracks within the remake’s soundtrack are new songs. The ten songs that did return occur to be fan favourites, together with tracks like 96 Fairly Bitter Issues by CKY, My Adidas by Run-DMC, and Amoeba by Adolescents. Different fan-favourites, nonetheless, like AC/DC’s TNT and Alien Ant Farm’s Want didn’t make it into the remake.
To make up for this, nonetheless, developer Iron Galaxy and writer Activision have managed to herald some genre-appropriate new songs to the sport by artists like Run The Jewels, 100 Gecs and Idles.
In an Instagram put up asserting the soundtrack, Tony Hawk had posted about how the choice to herald a mixture of returning observe together with extra present music was one he had made. He famous that, by means of this, he wished to introduce Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 gamers to new sorts of music whereas additionally giving them a blast of nostalgia from listening to the classics from the unique soundtracks.
“It was my alternative to select some completely different songs by the identical artists featured in THPS3+4 OST,” wrote Hawk. “I’m hoping that discovery is half the enjoyable, and a giant purpose that these soundtracks resonated within the first place. So hear and benefit from the journey. Extra to return… each outdated and new.”
Celebrating the launch of the sport, Iron Galaxy has additionally detailed the entire accessibility choices and customisation choices for sport issue in a latest put up. The studio has confirmed that Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 contains a complete tutorial that teaches gamers all of the ins and outs of the fast-paced arcade model gameplay, whereas additionally giving them methods to change the sport to their liking.
The sport additionally permits gamers to make use of the setting to tune issue to be tougher for them, akin to by growing the gameplay velocity all the best way as much as triple its customary velocity, and even making balancing tips like Manuals and Grinds be more difficult to keep up.
With Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 now out, it’s also price noting that Tony Hawk himself additionally needs to some day have Tony Hawk’s Underground get remastered. In an interview from again in Might, Hawk spoke about his aspirations for the remaster. “I all the time have aspirations,” Hawk mentioned. “It’s lower than me typically. I’ll marketing campaign all I can, however I’m working with a a lot greater firm that’s loads smarter than me.”
Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 is out now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Sequence X/S, Nintendo Swap and Nintendo Swap 2. For extra particulars, right here’s every part you could know concerning the sport.
