Tony Hawk Takes A Ride
The skateboarding legend discusses new skating peripheral
Tony Hawk is a skateboarding legend, who created the skating game in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater when it released a decade ago. The franchise has since boomed and created eight more titles. Tony Hawk sat down in an interview with Digg, and while discussing skating in general, the new Tony Hawk game, the tenth of the series, worked its way into the conversation.
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Tony Hawk's interview was based on questions that were submitted by the Digg community and were voted the best. While most of the questions were mostly related to Tony Hawk's skating career, one question asked by the Digg community asked Tony Hawk if he ever played EA's Skate, one of Tony Hawk's only competitors. This spawned a conversation with Tony Hawk, where he began to talk about how Tony Hawk: Ride is going to take skating games to the next level.
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For those unfamiliar, Tony Hawk: Ride will ditch the controller, and use the new board peripheral (pictured above) for an even more immersing experience. Players will skate in-game by actually performing forms of the tricks on the board peripheral itself.
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Tony Hawk went on to elaborate on the intricacies of the board itself, talking about how it was built for more than one game. "I think that what we've created now with Ride and the board peripheral, it's got so much technology packed in that it's not going to become passé anytime soon. I feel like that's a flagship for more skate games, and possibly other types of games." What other types of games does Tony Hawk have in mind exactly? Possibly snowboarding, surfing, and other board sports, but also something more surprising, Wii Fit.
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Tony Hawk is quite set on the idea of stepping into the exergaming world. So much so in fact, that Tony Hawk commented on the potential saying "It's [the Ride board] way more advanced than the Wii Balance Board, and so, there's so many other uses for it." Them's fightin' words to me. Sounds like Tony Hawk has just thrown down the gauntlet and announced his launch into Nintendo's territory.
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To see more of the interesting interview, click here.