Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 + 4 Director on Including a Ninja Turtle and a Surreal Pinball Park | IGN Live 2025

After the occurrence of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 remake, much classical games successful the beloved franchise are acceptable to get revamped with the impending merchandise of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4. At IGN Live, the game’s director, Kurt Tillmanns, was connected manus to speech astir what this postulation has to connection successful presumption of mixing caller and aged elements - including 1 agleam greenish caller inclusion successful the signifier of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle's nonmigratory enactment dude, Michaelangelo.

Said Tillmans, astir including specified an offbeat and notable caller skater connected the roster, “It was awesome moving with Nickelodeon connected getting Mikey successful here. We were ace passionate. Everyone who gets an accidental to beryllium portion of a Tony Hawk crippled is conscionable incredibly gracious and excited to beryllium a portion of it. They're fantastic collaborators. You know, we took large pridefulness successful gathering him for the game. He's besides got 3 turtle-themed peculiar tricks successful the crippled that you tin get erstwhile you unlock him, and you tin equip those onto immoderate different skater successful the game. So, that's a ton of amusive by itself!”

When it came to adding a two-minute timer constituent to this mentation of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, Tillmans remarked, “We’re rebuilding 2 of the champion games of each clip from the crushed up. And we wanted this to beryllium 1 game. It's got the conception from 2 awesome games, but it truly is 1 game. So that means that Tony Hawk 3 is going to get immoderate features and things that Tony Hawk 4 had and Tony Hawk 4, on with the classical goals that you remember, is going to beryllium capable to beryllium played with a two-minute timer. That timer tin really beryllium extended up to an hr for radical who privation to play much astatine their ain pace. We've besides got each of the classical crippled modes returning, truthful you tin skate astir successful the 4 parks and escaped skate azygous league oregon velocity tally and proceed to bash things astatine your ain gait successful those modes.”

Tillmans said helium was excited by the online play facet of the crippled due to the fact that helium felt, for Iron Galaxy, “That is the practice of our studio. So, we are highly excited to beryllium bringing this crippled to 7 platforms. We’ve got some PlayStations, some Xboxes, some Switches, and 3 PC stores. And not lone that, we are going to diagnostic cross-play crossed each azygous platform. So that's huge. This crippled is coming to the widest audience, to the widest subordinate basal that immoderate Tony Hawk crippled has ever had."

Asked astir processing the Switch 2 mentation of the game, Tillmans laughed, “I mean, honestly, what's 1 different level erstwhile we’re already doing six, right? As soon arsenic we knew that we were going to beryllium successful the model and it was going to beryllium imaginable for america to beryllium capable to enactment it, we conscionable jumped astatine the opportunity.” As for the show of the crippled connected the caller console, helium noted, “We're going to tally astatine 60 FPS connected Switch 2 connected each park, truthful it's going to beryllium astonishing performance.”

The soundtracks person ever been a large portion of the Tony Hawk games, and Tillmans said that for the remake of Pro Skater 3 + 4, “We person a ton of radical who are conscionable ace passionate astir the soundtrack. Obviously, erstwhile you commencement making a Tony Hawk game, that's 1 of the things that radical are astir excited about. We instrumentality it precise seriously. Tony Hawk himself has a batch of opinions astir the soundtrack and helium astir apt knows much astir the euphony that skaters are listening to than anyone other successful the world, truthful we evidently clasp his sentiment successful precocious esteem."

As for what it was similar moving with Hawk himself, Tillmans said, “He’s an awesome collaborator. He's large to enactment with. He takes this being benignant of the lexicon for skating precise seriously. He plays the crippled often and helium volition often archer us, ‘Hey, deliberation this instrumentality sanction is present called thing else. Let maine cheque with immoderate people.’ And helium volition marque definite that the instrumentality list, which has been updated from 1 + 2, represents the connection and the verbiage that skaters are utilizing today."

Regarding the caller skate parks the crippled includes, Tillmans said, “It’s a immense grant for america to beryllium capable to add, for the archetypal clip successful implicit 10 years, 3 marque caller parks into a Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game. The crippled is going to diagnostic the h2o park, the movie studio, and the pinball park. And the pinball parkland is ace exciting. It fits successful with that benignant of park, similar Roswell oregon Area 51 and Skater Heaven, wherever lone Tony Hawk games could truly instrumentality the skater into these fantastical places..”

As Tillmans explained, “When we travel up with ideas for these parks, we deliberation astir the types of things that mightiness beryllium a forbidden spot for a skater to spell and skate, similar a unopen down h2o parkland that truly fulfills that skater fantasy. And besides those fantastic places, similar a pinball parkland wherever the skater is really similar the size of a pinball successful the instrumentality skating around. The shot volition ping pong astir everyplace and hitch you out. And if you look up, there's really a elephantine Tony Hawk playing the pinball instrumentality that you're in. Then he'll respond erstwhile you bail and screen his eyes. It's great."

So, present that Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1-4 person gotten the remake treatment, should we expect the 5th game, Tony Hawk’s Underground, next? When asked that question, Tillmans remained mostly tightlipped, but helium fto it beryllium known the involvement is surely there, replying “We’re focused connected shipping [3 + 4]. I'm getting substance messages close present from radical moving connected the game. So we privation to vessel this game. We can't hold to get 3 + 4 retired to the audience. Beyond that, we would perfectly emotion to support moving connected this.”

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 volition beryllium released connected July 11, 2025, and you tin cheque our archetypal impressions of the remake close here.

"Remakes and remasters are precise overmuch an 'in' happening astatine the moment, and portion it's nary astonishment that we would yet spot what are arguably 2 of the champion entries successful the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater bid marque their mode to modern platforms, I decidedly didn't expect this bundle to beryllium arsenic robust of a remake arsenic it's shaping up to be," Our previewer, Nick Maillet said.