Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 Soundtrack

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 continues to be the strangest of games. Activision's clearly coveting nostalgia with this long-awaited sequel, and that's evident in everything from the name to the actual arcade gameplay. But with the game's soundtrack, it seems like it's trying to introduce people to a bunch of new bands, which strikes us as odd considering its evident intentions.

Look, we stopped reading Absolute Punk the day that we were old enough to understand that music doesn't actually mend broken hearts, so forgive us if the likes of Crass Mammoth are alien to us. Hey, the official video for their song All 149 – which will be in Robomodo's forthcoming release – has 5,349 views on YouTube, so it looks like a hit.

To be fair, we have heard of the likes of Anti-Flag, Death from Above 1979, and Four Year Strong, but we were expecting a bunch of old Drive-Thru Records bands to make the set-list – where are New Found Glory and The Starting Line? Even more worrying is the absence of Goldfinger, a band that defined the franchise with their iconic late 90s anthem Superman.

We suppose that the good news is that the game itself is looking moderately better these days. The footage coming out of Gamescom 2015 still isn't exactly inspiring, but it doesn't look like a total turd anymore – the revised artstyle actually works okay in motion and the physics look slightly better than at E3 2015, if still a little odd.

Are you happy with the soundtrack, though, or were you expecting some old-fashioned pop punk rather than the more modern tunes that seem to have made the cut? Perform a pick slide in the comments section below.

[source twitter.com]