Tony Hawk skate park editor sounds cool but it’s full of metaverse and NFT nonsense

metro.co.uk:

Anyone wishing for a new Tony Hawk game probably won’t be pleased with the Birdman’s new metaverse exclusive alternative.

Considering Activision seems to have no interest in making (or even remaking) another Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater game, the news that the man himself is working on his own skateboarding project should be cause for excitement.

On the surface, a giant skateboard park that you can customise and edit yourself sounds amazing. The big caveat is that it’s exclusive to the metaverse and is full of the usual cryptocurrency and NFT nonsense the gaming community has come to despise.

Simply called Tony Hawk Land, it’s being built in The Sandbox, a virtual space that’s all about letting people create their own content with the potential to monetise it through the blockchain. So, it’s Roblox but far less appealing (and definitely nowhere near as well known).

Hawk himself bills it as ‘the biggest skate park in the metaverse,’ although we don’t know how impressive that really is. Are there many skate parks in the metaverse already?

More importantly, it’s not clear what Tony Hawk thinks the metaverse is. It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Facebook/Meta’s VR world, but the world is probably being used to imply a connection with other games in The Sandbox.

Or, more likely, it’s just PR people throwing around meaningless buzzwords that even they don’t understand.

A short trailer provides a glimpse at Tony Hawk Land and, conceptually speaking, it’s not a bad idea, especially since the Pro Skater games had their own skate park editors.

The trailer doesn’t explain how cryptocurrency and NFTs will be incorporated, nor does it provide a date for when Tony Hawk Land will become available.

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