Tony Hawk about to do something "gnarly."

So when did you fall out of love with the Tony Hawk games?  For PEOWW the malaise started with the good-but-tiresome THPS4, but it wasn’t until the fratboy Bam Margera love-in of Tony Hawk: Underground that we began to actively despise the series.

We quite liked the back-to-basics approach of American Wasteland though but were beaten into submission by the joylessly tough Project 8.  As for Proving Grounds and Ride well no, neither did we.  After SKATE, the Tony Hawk games are an annoying irrelevance at best.

Well just like Gazza, it refuses to die and Tony Hawk: Shred is next up.  In a move that rips off their own excellent American Sk8land on the DS, the new game will be cell-shaded and aimed straight at da kidz.  On the plus side that might mean that they’ll tone down ‘sick’ mode as that’s been unbelievably harsh recently.  Expect the plot to involve raising cash by generating “sick footie” or some nonsense. 

Tony Hawk: Shred is expected to land Q4, 2010.