Tony Hawk Professional Skater 3 + 4 Developer Says It is Pulling an Odd Reference to Guitar Hero, and ‘Investigating’ How It Acquired within the Recreation

Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 developer Iron Galaxy says it’s “investigating” a curious “Easter egg” that some followers consider references an Activision collection resigned to the trash. Actually.

Shortly after the highly-anticipated Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 remake went stay for all gamers final week, gamers famous a familiar-looking — if “legally distinct” — field in a trash bin on the brand new Waterpark degree. Whereas not everybody could make the connection, you possibly can see what seems to be a boxed copy of Guitar Hero — or ‘Banjo Champion’ as it has been rebadged as right here, albeit with all of the Guitar Hero branding — stuffed into the can.

It is a notably curious addition given the developer of the Guitar Hero collection from Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock to 2010’s Warriors of Rock was Neversoft… which additionally just-so-happened to have developed the unique Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater collection.

As followers debated whether or not or not it was an Easter egg, a joke, and even dig — at Neversoft, or writer Activision — THPS 3+4 developer Iron Galaxy promptly distanced itself, writing: “We’ve the utmost respect for anybody who makes video games, we’re investigating how that bought in there within the first place. Thanks to the neighborhood for bringing this to our consideration and we’ll be eradicating that from the atmosphere artwork within the subsequent replace.”

Some gamers have informed Iron Galaxy to not fear because the “benign joke” was “nothing critical,” and others say it is “edgy, just like the older THPS video games,” the reality is the ‘joke’ has been round for years, as ‘Banjo Champion’ references popped up in THPS 1+2, too, 5 years in the past.

We thought the long-anticipated remake was nice, slapping it with a 8 and writing within the IGN’s Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 assessment: “Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 proves but once more the collection’ over-the-top skateboarding system is completely timeless, even when a few of the modifications to THPS4 miss the mark and the soundtrack has been fumbled.”

Should you’re simply getting began, try our Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3+4 walkthrough, the place we take you thru all 9 ranges, displaying you easy methods to get each collectible, purpose, gold medal, and panda plushie en path to unlocking all the pieces obtainable earlier than reaching Professional Objectives in THPS 3.

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and marketing consultant with 15+ years expertise working with a few of the world’s largest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.