Tony Hawk Ride, the reinvention of the franchise with a skateboard controller, released to retail on November 17, 2009. While initial reviews for Tony Hawk Ride have been mixed, GameSpot is reporting that the titular skater is chomping at the bit to work on the rumored sequel.
"We have already started that process, but who knows what the future holds. I've never had a master plan, especially with our old series, of how many we could do, or how far we could take it. It really was all about the fans and the console technology,” said Hawk. “As far as I'm concerned, it's all systems go with trying to make at least a sequel for this, because I feel like we've only just really tapped what's possible with this technology."
"I think that there are certain ways to play the game that we could definitely improve on in a sequel," he added. "Especially the way that you transition from the vert mode to the street mode…I'm sure there's more of a seamless way to do that, but we had to separate it for this first one, just because we wanted to get it finished and get it tight."
According to Hawk, developer Robomodo isn’t limiting itself to skateboarding for the sequel. "[It’s] up to Activision and myself as to what we do with this next and what kind of games we create. I think that the first priority, beyond skateboarding, would be snowboarding because that 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 PS2. I thought that people didn't really give it the attention it deserved."
