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Tony Hawk Motion tilts onto DS

By Tom Magrino, GameSpotPosted Aug 29, 2008 12:43 pm PT

Publisher's Nintendo-handheld exclusive will support accelerometer add-on this November; $40 bundle also includes Creat Studios' Hue Pixel Painter.

In May, Activision Publishing CEO and president Mike Griffiths commented that this year's installment of Tony Hawk on the Nintendo DS would "utilize new technology not yet seen on the DS." True to his word, Activision confirmed today that Tony Hawk Motion for the Nintendo DS will implement accelerometer technology by way of a motion-detecting add-on.

Trained professionals. DO NOT ATTEMPT.

The motion pack was developed by New York-based Kionix, and will let gamers control their digital skaters through twisting, turning, and tilting gestures. As for the game itself, Tony Hawk Motion is in development at Creat Studios (Coded Arms: Contagion), and will feature more than 20 minigame challenges in globe-spanning locales such as Tokyo, Dubai, Vermont, and the Alps. Activision also notes that, in a first for the franchise, Tony Hawk Motion will include snowboarding events, fronted by pro boarder Todd Richards.

When the $39.99 bundle launches this November, it will also include Creat's Hue Pixel Painter. In the action-puzzle game, players will be tasked with enlivening dreary environments by dowsing out underground paint deposits in a variety of landscapes.

Even skaters need to color sometimes.

Tony Hawk Motion will be the only installment in the publisher's skateboarding franchise to be released this year. In May, the publisher said it would be sitting the next console installment out a year "to deliver the kind of breakthrough [the Tony Hawk] franchise needs."

Indeed, Tony Hawk Motion may just be the beginning of the series' reinvention. In June, a spate of leaks from market-research firm Intellisponse revealed a number of products in the pipe from Microsoft and Activision, including the avatar-based Xbox Live dashboard overhaul, Lips for the Xbox 360, and Guitar Hero World Tour's neckslide. The leaks also referenced Tony Hawk's Adrenaline, an Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC game that uses a Wii Fit balance-board-like peripheral.

33 Comments

  • merc_nine

    Posted Nov 19, 2008 1:08 pm PT

    looks and sounds sweet to me. anyone who says skate it will be better hasnt really thought about the controls...drawing on the screen to do tricks..sounds lame to me. jumping and turning by tilting sounds much better, much like my little brother tried to do playing mario or racing games. Graphics look just as good as SkateIt. not the same but just as good. skate it on the ds isnt thats pretty. in fact i dont like realistic on the DS. it cant be done and any game that tries fails and just looks bad.

  • bobazz

    Posted Nov 2, 2008 12:36 pm PT

    this game will tottaly own









    NOT!!!

  • Pokemaster_Bob

    Posted Sep 3, 2008 2:02 am PT

    but you never know.. it MIGHT be an ok game...

  • Pokemaster_Bob

    Posted Sep 3, 2008 2:02 am PT

    *sniff sniff* kinda smells like EPIC FAIL!!!!

  • guidedtruth

    Posted Sep 2, 2008 8:31 am PT

    this game looks like it's not going to sell

  • Sodney

    Posted Sep 1, 2008 11:46 am PT

    Is it just me or does this smell like a giant FAIL?

  • DoMiNiC147

    Posted Aug 31, 2008 12:20 pm PT

    I keep thinking that there's going to be a problem with this game.

  • no_cultureicons

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 3:09 pm PT

    I'm fed up with 'mini-games', everything seems to have them now. The motion sensor could be good or it could just be gimmicky.

  • vestafiregoddes

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 1:30 pm PT

    Hmmmm....I think the peripheral market might get out of hand. My gaming area is cluttered enough with rock band. It's sad that so many Activision franchises will go down with it.

  • Jedilink109

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 12:13 pm PT

    Yay! More Tony Hawk DS! Now where's a full console version? I don't care if they reinvent it...just as long as it feels like Tony Hawk still. I've played EVERY HAWK game and I'm a big fan of the series. I just hope they really do a great job on the next console version.

  • mariofreak156

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 8:05 am PT

    ive been waiting for a game like this for the ds

  • 5-0

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 7:45 am PT

    Great, another half-arsed Tony Hawk game. What happened to the glory days of playing THPS3 online? Or even THUG?

  • DrKill09

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 5:55 am PT

    SkateIt is gonna PWN this game.

  • david1233

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 4:47 am PT

    oh gaaawwd...not another Hawk game? The first three were good but these guys need to give up on this franchise. Each year its getting worse and worse.(oh and the graphics on this look crap)IF THEY WANT TO REVIVE THE SEIES THEY NEED TO MAKE A TONY HAWK BALANCE BOARD GAME FOR THE WII!!!

  • Holdwick

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 12:38 am PT

    Wow, that's interesting but why not wii!?

  • pitchblack3

    Posted Aug 30, 2008 12:15 am PT

    Good, cause the ds is slacking off lately

  • DiscGuru101

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 9:19 pm PT

    I stick with mostly 2D/3D games on the DS. Motion sensing on a hand held strikes me as indefinably lame. Maybe because the DS could use so many other features 100X more than a tilt function.

  • AvIdGaMeR444

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 8:30 pm PT

    The world needs more Tony Hawk games...

  • S_Pac_316

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 7:18 pm PT

    Twisting and tilting technologies to control games is nothing new. Remember Kirby's tilt n' tumble and Wario Ware twisted?
    But this sounds fun. Hopefully they'll make it so that it doesn't make you lose sight of the secreen when you are tilting the DS.

  • calvinx6

    Posted Aug 29, 2008 6:40 pm PT

    I see a lot of people critizing the game, it was the same they was critizing the DS its graphics, but luck at the DS now.

    Innovation over graphics.

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