{"id":36172,"date":"2012-04-18T00:08:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T22:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36172"},"modified":"2012-04-18T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T12:06:10","slug":"tony-hawk-gets-nostalgic-with-hd-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36172-tony-hawk-gets-nostalgic-with-hd-remake","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hawk gets nostalgic with HD remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prolific skateboarder Tony Hawk hasn&#8217;t had the best of luck with his video game franchise, as the <a title=\"Activision\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11841-Activision-Blizzard\">Activision<\/a> published series&#8217; golden-years seem to be behind us, with more recent iterations, such as Ride and Shred, being abysmal at best.<\/p>\n<p>The Birdman seems to be aware of this and news regarding a mashed-up HD remake of his earlier games hit the internet <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/29396-tony-hawk-pro-skater-hd-arriving-in-2012-as-digital-release.html\">late last year<\/a>; but now we&#8217;re finally getting a glimpse of the digital resurrection in action.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Hawk, along with the help of street skating phenomenon Chris Cole, show off the THPS HD remake and visit two very familiar levels that fans will recognise: THPS&#8217;s Warehouse and THPS 2&#8217;s School.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4h5HHnP2HnM\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The downloadable game will not be an HD porting of the original Tony Hawk&#8217;s Pro Skater, but rather a blend of levels from the first two installments, remade in a brand new engine designed for the <a title=\"Playstation 3 (PS3)\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19888-Playstation-3-(PS3)\">PS3<\/a> and <a title=\"Xbox 360\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19882-Xbox-360\">Xbox 360<\/a>. Confirmed playable characters include Tony Hawk, Chris Cole, Eric Koston, Nyjah Huston, Andrew Reynolds, Rodney Mullen, Lyn-z Adams Hawkins (Pastrana), and Tony&#8217;s son Riley Hawk.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the Warehouse and School 2 levels from the original games, the Mall, Phoenix, Hangar, Marseilles, Downhill and Venice Beach have also been confirmed for the remake.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/29396-tony-hawk-pro-skater-hd-arriving-in-2012-as-digital-release.html\">Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD arriving in 2012 as digital release <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/5598-tony-hawk-to-drop-in-on-iphone-and-ipod-touch.html\">Tony Hawk to drop in on iPhone and iPod Touch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Birdman shows off some gameplay from upcoming THPS HD remake. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":36176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,587,3557,3556,3554,1540,3555],"class_list":["post-36172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-activision","tag-robomodo","tag-skateboarding-game","tag-thps-hd","tag-tony-hawk","tag-tony-hawks-pro-skater-hd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36199,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36172\/revisions\/36199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}