TONY HAWK RIDE “LIFESTYLE” PHOTOGRAPHY!
Cash-rich mega-publisher Activision has decided that youths and grown-ups being near its equipment is a good idea. In the case of Tony Hawk Ride, it is certainly a better idea than the actual product.
Let’s all just agree that the Tony Hawk series – and video games in general – peaked at around the period Tony Hawk 3 came out.
“I paid HOW MUCH for this SHIT?”
Since then, it’s been downhill all the way.
Having a bit of plastic does not make the game more fun.
It may make the game a better Christmas present for a friend or relative due to coming in a bigger and therefore more exciting box, but it does nothing for the experience.
This must be the other corner of the room that family is in. You’d think the family would be a bit too old to be living in a flatshare with some teenagers.
Hopefully Activision is preparing some LIFESTYLE photography to go with DJ Hero.
filed in "NEWS", ACTUAL GAMES, PROMOTIONAL IMAGES on Aug.25, 2009
August 25th, 2009 on 12:20 pm
“Let’s all just agree that the Tony Hawk series – and video games in general – peaked at around the period Tony Hawk 3 came out.”
Agreed 100%. Videogames these days are 95% shit.
August 25th, 2009 on 12:38 pm
I’d buy a game about shit.
Especially if it involved Ulala and Cream, ala 2 Girls One Cup.
What I wouldn’t buy is this game…
August 25th, 2009 on 12:41 pm
Sorry to be naïve here but what’s it plugged into?
I’m aware it’s probably wireless, but what console is it connected to? Can’t even see any cables in the first pic, let alone a console.
(although, over on the left, is that a cheeky american plug socket peeking round the corner? If so, I call half a face.)
Also, I like the way they’ve put pictures up on a shelf too high to look at properly, unless the house is normally inhabited by giants?
August 25th, 2009 on 12:42 pm
Karl please die
August 25th, 2009 on 12:50 pm
3rd picture down, girl in the blue top gently touching her friend, looking longingly into each others eyes…is this the start of some frenzied hand-inside-the-jeans crotch rubbing action while the guy rocks back and forth on that over-sized flat spanking board with a hard-on?
Is that the sort of thing Activision are doing now?
Well I never…
August 25th, 2009 on 1:10 pm
None of this lifestyle photography is EXTREEEEEEME!!! enough. I thought skateboarding was all bout going TO THE MAX EXTREME DUDEZ!!!
August 25th, 2009 on 2:04 pm
Yes the third shot is good as it has some females in it.
August 25th, 2009 on 2:04 pm
“Let’s all just agree that the Tony Hawk series – and video games in general – peaked at around the period Tony Hawk 3 came out.”
Hu ? When did this Anthony Hawk game come out ? I’ve always thought that games peaked at around the period of Jet Set Willy 2…
August 25th, 2009 on 2:08 pm
In which country do “Extreme” skateboarding students live in immaculately clean, designer, apartments…..with an unrealistically attractive family?
Surely, if they want to accurately simulate the lifestyle of their target demographic, there should be piles of shit everywhere, and certainly no books of any kind. And if it is meant to be American students, there should be all the paraphernalia of an upcoming college shooting – automatic weapons, grenades, long rain coats etc?
And, seeing as how they have a beautiful, photoshop garden outside, why is it necessary to keep the bike inside? They must have a photoshop shed?
I don’t understand the beautiful, lifestyle people. They keep their bikes inside and their sofas outside. It is very confusing for ugly bastards like me.
August 25th, 2009 on 2:17 pm
I blame Nintendo for making it impossible to portray someone playing a game alone, even when the game concerned is clearly a single-player experience.
Nowadays you’re not allowed to promote a game unless it depicts an entire family – preferably the Redknapps – wanking each other off.
The photo with the women on the beanbag is still my favourite though.
August 25th, 2009 on 2:41 pm
Is it just me, or have these shoots become more knowing and ironic lately?
In the last image, it looks like the one on the plastic skateboard is saying “Don’t I look like a twat!” and the one that’s pointing is saying “No, you look like an absolute complete and utter fucking twat! Ha Ha!”
They’re not allowed to know they look like twats. It’s against protocol. And why do all these people have white walls? I usually associate white walls with oppressive, sterile, totalitarian regimes that are pretending to be utopias but are actually living hells (Like Thx 1138).
August 25th, 2009 on 3:00 pm
Jaded. I’m so jaded by these pics. Is this the best they can come up with.
Surely someone, somewhere has on ounce of creativity left to do something remotely original or clever?
August 25th, 2009 on 3:02 pm
Never mind totalitarian regimes, during the Judith Hann years of Tomorrow’s World, the entire studio was white, along with her boiler suit. In the world before LCD plasma “silicone” chips, this made our valve equipped telly buzz like buggery and the line synch would go all funny – causing Judith to judder horizontally.
Worse than that, the arrival of Judith was the beginning of the end, signalling a shift from brilliant stories about how all household cleaning would be done by a robot / everyone will drive to work in a hovercraft “next year”, to stories about tampons and dull medical “innovations” that only Woman’s Realm readers would be interested in.
August 25th, 2009 on 4:45 pm
With a rug that light, I’d be telling them to take their bloody shoes off!
At least Activision got one thing right in the photos, the older girls only appear in one shot, don’t want to play, and have fucked off before the end of even one go.
August 25th, 2009 on 6:57 pm
This will be looked at as the point when videogaming disappeared up its own arse. Twats that write for Edge will release books on the subject (that no one will buy as games will NEVER become respectable, even with Charlie Brooker shoehorning them into his shitty random wank Guardian column) which will point to the idiotic Tony Hawk skateboard peripheral as the product that went too far and precipitated the second major video game crash.
And if none of this comes true no one will even remember I said this so I don’t care. *laughs maniacally, assumes praying mantis stance then leaps onto roof of nearby building*
August 26th, 2009 on 12:54 am
if you’re going to look like a twat riding on a plastic skateboard, you might as well go all out and get a top skater cabinet.
August 26th, 2009 on 2:16 am
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August 26th, 2009 on 9:00 am
I think the way that they’re all doing the same thing, balancing on the backboard of the, er, board whilst committing a posture crime, while the onscreen character does loads of different stuff, is brilliant.
Now you could say that it’s because they’ve only taught the actors one stance and then photoshopped different bits of the game onto the screen, but that’s not the reason. The reason is that playing the game with the peripheral will be totally, utterly shit.
95% of games may be debatably shit, but 98.5% of peripherals are shit, no arguments allowed.
August 26th, 2009 on 10:46 am
That screen is way to far away
August 26th, 2009 on 5:53 pm
I cant wait for all the unco-ordinated fucktards to start realising they have no sense of balance and start smashing their faces thru their stupid fucking glass serano tv stands. And the subsequent videos of it which will appear on youtube.
Skate 3 please, made by someone other than EA.
August 27th, 2009 on 12:25 am
Meh, you just can’t beat SurfChamp, complete with the finger powered surfboard attachment on the Speccy. Is no idea new these days?
3rd picture is definitely a “pssst, wanna go have some girl on girl fun, while this geek plays with his skateboard?”… or at least, in my mind it is. :D
August 27th, 2009 on 2:27 pm
wow, i’ve never even seen that, and i was a speccy maniac, learn sommat new every day! Actually that’s 2 things i’ve learned today, the other being that, total recall and blade runner were based on books written by the same maniac. I’m obviously lame.
August 27th, 2009 on 3:04 pm
Tch.
Although, I admit I remember seeing a review for it for the c64 and didn’t realise it was available for the Speccy. but then I paid no real attention to the speccy back then, being a c64 owner.
Thinking back to the time the c64 version was out, speccies just had rubber keys then, wonder if it still worked on the hard keyboard of the 128k spectrum or similar? You able to confirm/deny this, LeeC22?
Also, don’t forget:
Confessions d’un Barjo (1992) based on “Confessions of a Crap Artist”
Screamers (1995) based on “Second Variety”
Impostor (2001) based on “Impostor.”
Minority Report (2002) based on “The Minority Report.”
Paycheck (2003) based on “Paycheck.”
A Scanner Darkly (2006) based on “A Scanner Darkly”
Next (2007) based on “The Golden Man”
And there’s talk of “Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.” being made into a movie soon too.
“That was a public service announcement”