When Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4’s roster was first revealed, one notable identify was conspicuous in its absence: Bam Margera, one of the crucial well-known skaters of the period who appeared in a number of Tony Hawk video games, was the one one from THPS 3’s authentic roster lacking from the remake. Margera was eventually added to the game within the eleventh hour, and in a new interview with VGC, Margera says an opportunity encounter with Tony Hawk in Los Angeles is the rationale he is again within the recreation.
Margera says that he was in LA at a time the place he hadn’t spoken with Hawk in a couple of yr, when Margera “wasn’t doing too good.” After a cellphone name and an invite to the Hawk’s Nest skate park, Margera says Hawk was impressed along with his progress.
“I grabbed my skateboard, placed on some knee pads, and we wound up ollieing over one another on the large channel,” Margera mentioned within the interview. “He’s like, ‘What’s going on? You might be again.'” Margera explains that he just lately married a stretch coach who has helped him enhance his bodily well being, which has allowed him to return to skateboarding full-time.
“He was fairly blown away by that,” Margera mentioned. “And I feel that, you realize, actually provoked him to make a name to Activision, figuring out that there was already a deadline, however to see what sort of strings he may pull to get me again in it. Simply from that particular little go to.”
Bam Margera joins a Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 roster that additionally features a combination of latest and legendary skaters, with names like Zion Wright, Margie Didal, Bob Burnquist, and Tony Hawk himself included within the combine. Just a few company additionally seem as playable skaters, together with the Doom Slayer from id Software program’s first-person shooter Doom and Michaelangelo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3 + 4 is out now on Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Change, and PC.