Tony Hawk says that had been a brand new game in his Pro Skater line to return out at the moment, he would welcome the chance to discover its esports potential. Speaking on the Laureus World Sports Awards (through Front Office Sports), the skater acknowledges that current adjustments within the business might need produced very totally different games.
A complete of 19 Tony Hawk games have been produced, with the latest, ‘Tony Hawk’s Skate Jam’, launching on cell only a few months in the past. However, the sequence’ biggest success (throughout the minds of the PCGN staff, at the very least) got here out within the very totally different gaming surroundings of the early 2000s.
Hawk says that “if we would have first come out on consoles within the last five years or so, the online element would be much, much bigger and would have probably given it more longevity.” Quite how that each one would have come collectively in an fascinating thought experiment, however does reckon that an official Pro Skater esports league “would be great,” and even goes on to say that “there’s still hope” for it someplace down the road.
As a lot as I’ve loved Tony Hawk games through the years, I’m undecided they might have competed with the likes of Overwatch and League of Legends. The games may be fashionable, however as some followers have identified, recognition and an exploitable factors system don’t essentially make for aggressive depth.
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That mentioned, the current cell game does include a contest mode, and has an internet aspect, which means that somebody, someplace, is probably going contemplating the idea.
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