More than 25 years after the first Tony Hawk skirt Place ski games on the map, developers still find new ways to explore skiing in video games, especially in 2025. Skater Tony Hawk’s Pro 3 + 4 remake It is scheduled to be launched in July and EA to launch it online only, Free to play skating alive this year.
In 2022, my colleague Andrew Webster wrote that We are in a golden age of skiing gamesAnd things did not really slow down. So what makes skiing well for video games, and allows many different expressions of sports from different studios?
“I think skiing is one of those things that are always great,” Thps 3 + 4 The game manager tells Court Telmanz freedom. “It is a permanent green imagination, in both real life and games. Being the ski board is a sign of what is great.” “There is a reason because we are all in awe of what these people can do,” he says. Part of what makes skiing great is that music, fashion, art and video allows people to experience ski culture, says Telmanz.
Also, “It is safer”, Andrew Shemil, one of the top producers of snow, creators Skate series. He says there are many people who may like skiing but they don’t want to risk bone breaking. “To be able to dive into a fictional world where you can act on it, the dire consequences and not being exposed to them are like immediately.”
It helps games take many different skiing methods. “The ski community is very diverse, so it makes sense that there is appetite for all different types of games – some are more realistic, some corridors, some are more cross,” says. skating Executive product Mike McCartney. New skating“It is all about re -creating a skiing experience that reflects the freedom of exploration, discovery and expression that you see in the culture of skiing. We really wanted to respect the roots of the concession, while presenting the game forward.”
Tony Hawk skirt Games will always have in the title: “They got Tony Hook, and they have professional skiers,” says Telmanz. This includes things like their patterns and characters – even the special tricks of skiers are a representation of their style in real life. Tony Hawk is very involved, even with 3 + 4 Reshaving. Hawk “where the culture comes from” and has a “real eye for details” about what is happening in games. “He knows that this game is the dictionary of skiers during the next few years,” according to Telmanz.
the Thps The series also strikes a great mixture of ARCADE-Y experience and ski simulation. It has physics and realistic sites in general, but it also allows you to start from strange tricks, and seek to achieve the goals of the video game (skiing, anyone?), And playing as some Unreal characters in Foolish places.
to Skate Games, the Snownman team had a lot of thinking about how to make skiing on a mobile phone. The first was launched as the Apple Appr Arotes, and City ski: New York Shmemel says that there is currently exclusive, so the Snowman team had to discover a plan to control the mobile phone “Feel the novel and fit with sport” that could also be friendly to serve a wide audience. Your thumb represents your front and back foot, and you beats with your thumb to simulate the tricks with skiing on skiing.
The developers with whom you spoke believe that there are still many ways that ski games can grow. “Ski skiing does not stop developing and will not play us,” skatingJeff Simster, head of creativity, says. “The creativity of the skiers constantly raises my mind. The sites they find, the tricks they invent, or the vibrant style … We were unable to imagine today’s scene in terms of where we were 15, 10, or even five years ago. So, who knows what we will see tomorrow?”
“You can be multiple players and online the next limits,” says Telmanz. Thps 3+4 He will have Crossplay, and the team is excited to “increase the group of players online to something that we have not seen before in a Tony Hook game.”
Shimel refers to games like Olympic world (Cartoon Ski Equipment) and Ski story (The anesthetic ski game that is launched this year was launched) that highlights skiing in different ways. “Regarding what has not been done, I think it is likely that there is a lot to explore,” he says.
