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Tony Hawk’s facing revamp

Ben Parfitt

by Ben Parfitt
Friday, February 8th 2008 at 11:25AM GMT

US publisher Activision has pledged to reassess its Tony Hawk’s franchise and introduce a number of new innovations into the next instalment, which is expected to hit shelves later this year.

EA recently claimed that its new extreme-sports contender Skate had outsold Activision’s Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground by a ratio of 2-to-1.

Skate turned the skating genre on its head last year with it’s revolutionary twin-stick control method. After nine years of Tony Hawk’s this fresh approach proved to be both a critical and commercial success for EA.

Tags: Activision , ea , revamp , skate , refresh , rejig , tony hawk's

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