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eighth game not number one

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this is fun and well worth the price that its going for right now, just as good as the last few games but not the best. one of the cool features is called nail the trick. It goes into slo mo and you can control the way the board spins with the dual sticks. Other than nail the trick the game is essentially the same as the others, so if you like TH then get this, personally im going to be enhoying skate for its new technology. either way i recommend this game!

Wide-open entertainment

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Much like the other versions of Tony Hawk, you can skate anywhere without being restricted to missions. I've played for many hours at a time without realizing the time of day from beginning to finish. Online is fun, but the global interest has apparently diminished so you pretty much have to invite friends to play, rather than join existing skates.

thp8: the better of the tony hawk games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this is overall my favorite tony hawk game. although 2 more are coming out soon, i don't think they will be so good. they should stop for a breather every couple of years, jeez! bad call on activision's part. this game, which is so much better then american wasteland, is better suitable for children and is physically unbelievable. buy buy buy!!! :-)

It's a great game with playability issues

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I personally haven't played a Tony Hawk game since his Pro Skater 2 and 3 for the PSone/2. For those that haven't played this series for a while but have in the past, don't worry, the controls are all essentially the same as back in the day. You can still use the d-pad for the entire game, you still have to pull off unbelievable tricks and rack up a god-awful amount of points to beat "goals". Most of the aging hippie line-up you remember from THPS2 are still there, only looking a lot older than before. Overall, this should have been called Tony Hawk 2007, because there isn't anything revolutionary beyond the slo-motion trick mode that caught my eye.

You start off with a stock skater you build on your own that is desperately trying to be ranked within the top 8 skaters in the world. This person has the chance to be Tony Hawk's maidservant on his pro skate tour. You get to talk to people around your area that give you quests to do, like retrieve golf balls, do an amazing trick off a fence or ramp, or chase a guy around that videos you while you do tricks. All the while, you are trying to build up your reputation and rank against a group of 200 faceless other skaters all competing for the same prize. This becomes a recurring theme throughout the game.

Project 8 is all about trial-and-error gameplay. If you screw up a trick, get back up and do it again. You'll end up doing a trick over-and over up to 100 times just to land it exactly the way the game tells you to. And when I say exactly, I stress that in the highest. You also have a time limit on some quests to complete a set number of goals. If you can't get all of the goals completed, you get back up and keep going over and over till you get it right. If this doesn't sound like fun, then this game isn't for you.

The open-ended gameplay of being able to skate on virtually everything (even water) and just bust out crazy tricks and bone-crunching bails to your hearts content makes the game fun on its own. You can run over people you skate by style without any penalty to you, or try to grind on that unbelievably high pole in the air. Nail the trick mode was an interesting part of the game, as you try to bust out a timed board move in mid-air, in slow motion. This was probably the best feature I found in the game, as it gave you a chance to invent your own tricks.

That is unfortunately where the fun ends. If you want to progress anywhere in the game or open up new areas, you must complete somewhat easy, but then ludicrously hard goals. These goals are pretty much the same thing from every other Pro Skater game that's hit the market in the past. Collect letters, find the secret area, wallgrind the posters, rack up 50,000 points etc. The gameplay of Project 8 felt no different than GTA3 now except you're not packing heat and bustin'a cap on the locals. Your character never talks, never gets to make decisions on their own, and ultimately seems pretty shallow in that their only goal in life is to be recognized by Tony Hawk.

According to Activision, this game was made "with great care" for the XBOX 360 and is considered the flagship version of the game. So why am I experiencing slowdown when going into certain areas? Why can't I get to build my own skate park like I could in Tony Hawk 2? What happened to being able to place your own stats where you wanted them, rather than having to do the same spin move over and over to build your character up?

At the core, Project 8 is a great game because it gives you a skater world like no other. It will always be a good game because busting out crazy tricks like you can in this game will always look cool to spectators watching people play. You will find no game with greater accuracy to trick names, board styles, and celebrity endorsements. All the clothing, skateboard logos and the latest emo fashions are available, with a great punk/hip-hop soundtrack. I just don't get why the game feels so shallow and bugged after all these years, especially on a next generation system. Hopefully Activision will work out the kinks, and maybe finally give the Tony Hawk series a 2008 name. Then again, skaters never like to conform to the norm.

Tony Hawk going down?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is great, really fun and full of your average skate stupidities with new ones such as seeing how much you can hurt yourself LOL. Really good game and really good tricks and gameplay. Theres only one thing wrong with it, it doesn't really have a storyline like all the other tony hawk games. The point of the game is to rank up all the way to the top eight and you start out at like 180 so yeah. Just complete objectives and get to the rank. Besides the storyline, thats the only con.

Same old same old

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

They need to do some changes with these games. It's all been a button mashing balancing act. Something like Skate broke new boundaries with skating video games. This game proves to be best when at a drinking party.

doesnt touch american wasteland

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: January 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

because american wasteland had no load time they must have thrown the load time to this game. when your in free mode it takes 7 seconds to load the next player on the list...... n64 was faster...... no customization either not a very good game this is a game that u want to rent not buy first

u got to check out Tony Hawks project 8

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: February 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

awesome very well made just the special can not work sometimes.

Kind of... Don't Know

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: February 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I play'd the demo it blew me away, then one of my homies told me to get it he said the Graphixs are much better than the demo so I bought it, but can't play it becuz 360 is broken...damn :(

More of the same

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Frankly, I was greatly disappointed. Sure, the gameplay itself is the same, and I had no problem running up big combos, etc. But the game has, like the last 3 or 4 games before it, gone down the "let's put in lame jokes and stupid tasks" route. Give me a tough line, not some joke task that 8 year olds think is hilarious. I don't want a Jackass game, I want a Tony Hawk game. The skater customisation is non-existant, which is astounding considering that this is the 8th game, and supposedly the next-gen flagship. If you're new skating game player, then by all means, play this game. But if you're a fan of the Tony Hawk series, just get Tony Hawk 4 out again; it'll be a far better use of your time.

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