Despite getting terrible reviews from pretty much every corner of the gaming community, Robomodo has today deemed Tony Hawk: Ride a “retail success”. Wait, what? Yep, you read that right, Robomodo has said that the company has grown by 20% since the games release and is looking to expand an additional 17%.
President Josh Tsui had the following to say:
“Our culture is focused on enabling game designers and artists to innovate, while providing them with proper management oversight and technology support. As evidence from our recent game release, Robomodo supports out-of-the-box thinking and new creative ways to approach gameplay.”
Creative ways? Yes. Playable? Not so much. Robomodo better get their act together and get that Tony Hawk: Ride sequel up to tip top shape before releasing it to the public or they are going to fold as fast as they grew.
via thatvideogameblog
If you’ve read anything about Tony Hawk Ride you’ll know that is, well, wasn’t very good. Sure, it was a cool concept but the execution was poor due to the controller being non responsive. However, it looks like the bad reviews haven’t stopped Activision from pushing forward as they have just announced that a brand new Tony Hawk game utilizing the board controller will be out this holiday season.
Activision’s CEO Mike Griffith basically said the first game wasn’t very good because they spent more time optimizing the hardware than they did the software. Whatever the case, let’s just hope the next game is much better.
via kotaku
Tony Hawk: Ride seemed like an awesome idea, control an onscreen skater with a skateboard deck. Unfortunately the idea of the game is about where the awesomeness ends as it really failed to deliver. The skateboard deck was unresponsive to the point where the game was damn near unplayable and it wasn’t exactly eye candy.
However, the game’s not-so-successful launch hasn’t put a damper on Tony Hawk’s drive as he’s already talking with Robomodo about the next game. Below is a tweet from Tony Hawk that let us in on the information:
“Just met with @robomodo about our next project and it’s already much better than I expected”
If you’ve been paying attention, Tony Hawk was pretty optimistic about the first game as well. Let’s hope Mr. Hawk and Robomodo give us something we can actually play this time around.
Tony Hawk Ride, the skateboarding game posed as a resurrection of the series, complete with an actual skateboard peripheral, has seen somewhat disappointing sales since it was released on November 17. The game has sold just under 116,000 units, 67,000 on the Wii, 30,000 on the Xbox 360 and 16,000 on the PS3, according to NPD. The price of the game — $120 — also has a great impact on sales, naturally.
The biggest reason for this seems the board which comes with the game, which isn’t accurate nor responsive enough for a game like skating, which requires lots of accuracy and responsiveness. Our own review confirms this, which will be published later today.
If you’ve been around for a while you may remember Kelly Slater’s Pro Surfer, a surfing title from Activision for the PS2, GamCube, Xbox and various other consoles. And, if you were a fan of the game you may have noticed that there were never any sequels which may have left you a bit discouraged, but don’t worry as Tony Hawk feels the same way.
In the same GameSpot interview that he talked about a Tony Hawk Ride sequel, Mr. Hawk said the following:
“I think that the first priority, beyond skateboarding, would be snowboarding because that would lend itself [to the board] a little bit easier [than other genres], and beyond that I’d love to do a surfing game. I always thought that Kelly Slater’s [Pro Surfer] was an underrated title for the PlayStation 2. I thought that people didn’t really give it the attention it deserved.”
So, does this mean a possible sequel? If so, they will unfortunately use the board peripheral from Tony Hawk Ride which hasn’t exactly recieved the best reception.
If you didn’t know, Tony Hawk Ride hit store shelves just about a week ago with little to no media coverage (probably considering the fact that it wasn’t, well, very good). The title’s biggest selling point is the skateboard peripheral that it uses exclusively but the fact that the board only works with one game had gamers a bit unsure as to whether or not they will purchase it.
Luckily, Mr. Hawk himself has come forth today in an interview with GameSpot UK to let us know that not only is a sequel to the game in the works, but that the board will be utilized for future surfing and snowboarding titles.
There’s no telling on when these new titles will be hitting the shelves but we’ll be sure to keep you posted as more information is made known.
It was recently announced that those who preorder Tony Hawk Ride at GameStop will be rewarded with the ‘Quiksilver All ’80s All Day Level’ for use with the game.
According to the press release this level mimicks a Quiksilver event help in December 2008 where Mr. Hawk himself took gold. Furthermore, it allows players to “skate on a full 80′s style vert ramp, dressed in an authentic Quiksilver retro wardrobe, executing a special, vintage trick list” along with come face to face with an “’80s version of Tony Hawk”.
Will this help spurr Tony Hawk Ride sales? Maybe, but not as much as top notch game play would. Will it deliver? We’ll have to wait until November 17th to find out.
via gonintendo
It looks like Modern Warfare 2 isn’t the only game Glu will be developing for mobile handses as it was recently announced that the studio will also get their hands on Blur, Guitar Hero 5, and Tony Hawk: Ride.
There are absolutely no details regarding gameplay for any of these games but we do know that they will be released this year for Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile, and Java-based handsets.
Anyone excited? I still don’t understand why they aren’t releasing these games for the iPhone.
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When Activision first announced that Tony Hawk Ride would feature a bundled skateboard controller, gamers everywhere rolled their eyes and pictured the peripheral collecting dust next to their Rock Band drums.
Well, according to Robomodo’s president, Joshua Tsui, you might want to keep the skateboard dusted off a bit longer:
It’s really important to us that when people buy this package that they understand that, right now we’re concentrating on Tony Hawk Ride, but we want to make sure that people have a good return on their investment so there are many games that are planned for this peripheral. We look at it less as a peripheral, as more of a platform. The obvious ones are snowboarding and surfing and such, but there are a lot of games that can be used with this board, and we’re really excited to start working on those.
Tony Hawk Ride will be released for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii later this year.
Please, oh please Robomodo, simulate the hoverboard found in Back to the Future and let us zoom around New York City. Please?
Read (VideoGamer)
Here is an announcement that probably won’t apply to the majority of you, but for those whom it does concern Robomodo has recently announced that the controller for Tony Hawk Ride will allow for use by gamers 300 pounds and under. Anything over 300 pounds and the controller will presumably turn to dust.
Then again, just as Joystiq points out, if you are over 300 pounds playing Tony Hawk Ride is probably the least of your concerns.
Robomodo’s Tony Hawk Ride is expected to hit store shelves sometime in the fall of this year for around $120 bundled with the skateboard controller.
