Secret Character revealed!

#1 Edited by Demoskinos (8994 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

http://www.xblafans.com/exclusive-robomodos-roberta-shreds-her-way-into-tony-hawks-pro-skater-hd-50887.html

Apparently it is none other than the Robomodo mascot. That...is a tad disappointing. Would have rather had Spider-Man or Private Carerra as the second secret skater. I gotta say if there is one disappointing part about this game it is in fact the roster of skaters. Was REALLY hoping for Rune Glifberg. Christ Air was my favorite special move.

#2 Posted by EquitasInvictus (1591 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

Yeah; I, too, was expecting Spider-Man or something similarly ridiculous but familiar. Although this in itself isn't very surprising, I guess.

#3 Posted by pyromagnestir (2914 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

Aw man, this is the first I've heard of the roster issues. The gimped soundtrack was easily fixable, but the gimped roster not so much. Suddenly far less excited for this game. Still probably gonna get it at some point though.

#4 Posted by Chaoskiller2000 (295 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

Ugh no Spider-man dang...

#5 Edited by L44 (491 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

Boba Fett was pretty cool

Edit: Oh wait that was Jango..

#6 Posted by kindx (2238 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

I wouldn't be surprised if licensing Spider-man or any other big comic book hero is a bit too big for their XBLA wallet.

#7 Posted by AjayRaz (12250 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

that's not terrible, but they should have had like, Captain Price or something.

#8 Posted by mosespippy (2610 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

@ck1nd: Activision have had the Spider Man licence since the 90s. That's how they were able to put him into Tony Hawk in the first place.

#9 Posted by Redbullet685 (5739 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

@pyromagnestir: Yeah, the roster doesn't sound too great. I mean, where is Bob Burnquist and Bucky Lasek? And Roberta isn't an exciting secret character. Still, the game looks fun, so I'll be picking it up when it comes to PSN.

#10 Edited by kindx (2238 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

@mosespippy: I'm not going to pretend like I know what I'm going on about, but are we sure that Activision still holds rights to Spider-man in a Tony-Hawk game? I wouldn't be surprised if holding the license isn't enough to throw him into whatever you want - but like I said, I won't pretend.

However, if what you say is true - that is a bit of a bummer that they did not include him.

Edited for obvious typos.

#11 Posted by joshthebear (2338 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

That's pretty weak

#12 Posted by Zippedbinders (967 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

@ck1nd said:

I wouldn't be surprised if licensing Spider-man or any other big comic book hero is a bit too big for their XBLA wallet.

Activision has all kinds of Spider-Man rights, I don't think it would be a big issue.

#13 Posted by mosespippy (2610 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

@ck1nd: I can't say for sure but their rights to the licence was what got him into Tony Hawk in the first place. It was because they didn't have to negotiate any new deals. Of course Spiderman has appeared in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 so either Capcom had to pay Activision to do it or Marvel still holds some rights. I know in the case of Porche that EA has that and Sony & Microsoft have to pay EA to get Porches in Gran Turismo & Forza and that EA could easily turn them down and not let them have Porches in their games at all. I imagine it's similar but all these licensing deals are different.

#14 Posted by Metric_Outlaw (1113 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

Who?

#15 Posted by addictedtopinescent (3645 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

I would have like spider-man, or maybe even the neversoft eyeball dude I remember playing as him all the time back in the day

#16 Posted by Hunter5024 (2692 posts) - 10 months, 9 days ago

@mosespippy said:

@ck1nd: I can't say for sure but their rights to the licence was what got him into Tony Hawk in the first place. It was because they didn't have to negotiate any new deals. Of course Spiderman has appeared in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 so either Capcom had to pay Activision to do it or Marvel still holds some rights. I know in the case of Porche that EA has that and Sony & Microsoft have to pay EA to get Porches in Gran Turismo & Forza and that EA could easily turn them down and not let them have Porches in their games at all. I imagine it's similar but all these licensing deals are different.

I believe they explained this on comicvine recently, but activision holds the license to Spiderman solo games, and someone else holds the rights to marvel team games.