One of the best things about Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 was the split screen. Four players was amazing fun, so it’s bound to be in the new HD remake due next month, right?
Well, no.
“That was a tough decision for the team’, says Robomodo’s Josh Tsui in an interview with PSU. “Given the limited scope of the game we had to make some choices on what goes into game. Split screen was talked about heavily but in the end we had to really look at the way people play nowadays which is more online.”
“Having both split screen and online would have sacrificed a lot of time and quality to work in the amount of time that we had.”
Understandable reasoning, but disappointing all the same.
On a related note, the Achievements are out. If you want to know whether you’re still up to the job, check out the requirements for the Gamerscore below, courtesy of Xbox360A.
Completist 100
Completed all Projectives with one characterRace to the finish lines 35
Reached the end of the Mall 3 times in a single Big Head Survival runI don’t want no 2 minute Man 35
Held a combo for 30 seconds after the time is up in MarseilleThe Best, Around 35
Got 500,000 points in one run in Venice BeachAin’t ‘fraid of no ghosts 35
Collected all pellets in one combo in Hawkman in The HangarGap Skiing 35
Completed the 100 Ski Jump gap in Downhill JamManual Master 20
Performed 15 manuals in one combo in School II with Rodney MullenBringing home the bacon 20
Unlocked Officer DickOld School 20
Scored 200,000 points without performing a single manual in one run in WarehouseThis. is. SKATEBOARDING! 20
Won a match online
There are 6 secret ones, too, worth between 5 and 10 points each. The game is out on the 18th of July for 360, a month later for PlayStation 3.
Roynaldo
How moronic.
Thats all that needs to be said.
Die.
DJ Judas
Unfortunately that’s a sale lost from me and a couple of my friends. Split-screen makes or breaks a lot of our purchase decisions nowadays.
jediryan123
I’m not getting it without split-screen, I have skate for my non-splitscreen skateboard gaming needs.
JBoo
If the HD updates is not the same as the original i won’t buy it, so a no buy from me(+ i love split-screen games anyway)
colmshan1990
I’m still going to buy this mind.
It’s just the game dropped 2 review points in my mind.
stage1
First it’s a timed exclusive for xbox and now there’s now local split screen.
Two words for you Activision. The first one begins with F and second one is “You”.
+1 less sale.
stage1
*no
tactical20
Not that fussed about split screen tbh. In fact I don’t really remember playing split screen back in the day either? Think we just took it in turns? But then being a bunch of real life skateboarders, we weren’t bothered about high scores. I’m still more concerned about the moon physics! That could ruin it, imo.