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2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 17
Date: November 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Very disappointed with this game. As a skater i was impressed with the overall styles captured from the various tricks, but this is no "next gen" game...the amount of options available to customize your skater is puzzling....how is that THPS II had more options??? The graphics are horrible, the start screen even looks low budget, the highlight of this game is the new nail the trick mode which actually makes the gameplay more challenging/ realistic but alas this does not make the game. I think what the future of pro skater needs is to venture more into the direction of being a sim...i.e, having your skater progressingly learn tricks, how about real physics...when you grind on something your skater slows down instead of rocketing off...spend some time designing an actual living city.

With age somes boredom

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: April 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have played and completed every Tony Hawk game, and I think I finally put away my skateboard and have moved on. There is nothing new in this game that you've never seen. The graphics are great, sure, but the gameplay gets boring quick and there isn't much incentive to play through this one unless you have some sick syndrome like me where you need every achievement point possible.

Rental at best, it can be beat in 5 days if you burn through it. If your little brat has never played a TH game before he will be blown away. For veterans, stay away. Pick a new hobby like curling or women.

Rent it first...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: February 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun at first, the graphics are really nice.After a while along with loads of frustrations and ridiculous missions and objectives this game loses its luster. Its really unrealistic for example, doing skateboard tricks while jumping out of an airplane. Also the slow-mo thing is really annoying especially for people who don't like to use the D-pad and prefer to use the Analog. The only skate game I'll possibly buy is EA's S.K.A.T.E because it focuses on the real side of skating.

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

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.

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!

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.

Messy Purely Messy!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've had several issues with the game not responding or responding 5 seconds later to what I've done. Theres a part in the game where you have to do a tripple kickflip and the game it self told me I did it at the bottem how ever for some ungodly reason it didn't count twords the goals of doing a tripple kickflip.

this game would be great if there wasn't control issues & bugs that still need to be worked out (if my xbox360 asks me if I wanna update I ALWAYS do!)
In the end I wouldn't bother getting this game at this time I'd wait for the next Tony Hawk.

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.

Better then the last few for sure

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 18 / 20
Date: November 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Yes this is the 8th entry in the Tony Hawk series. Does it actually do anything new? Yes it does.

New Features: The nail the trick mode is simply the best addition and Im suprised no one has thought of this before now. Also new this version is the bails, which are used for some challenges (bail and break this many bones or bail and rack up this much of a hospital bill). This feels like a copy of Amped 3, but works semi well and adds some new variety to the series. Also new is the classic mode integrated to the story, which is my favorite new feature.

Graphics: The graphics are amazing, specially when you compare it to Tony Hawk American Wasteland. The graphics are smooth and I have not seen any slow down that some reviews have mentionned.

Sounds: The sound is good and the track list is varied and good. Out of 50 some odd tracks I think I knew about 4 bands. In a way I wish they would have thrown in a few more well known bands, but the unknowns (to me anyway) are decent and a few tracks actually made me want to look up the artist.

Character creation: Unlike other reviews (ign for example) I disagree that there are not enough options. You pick from 5 or 6 basic models and each then has options to modify them. There are a few things I would have added, like being able to change my guys hair color for the hair I chose instead of it only adding highlights to the black do or being able to change the shirt under the leather vest I wanted to wear. But over all I think the creation should make most fans happy.

The cons: A lot of reviews have mentionned that create a trick was removed (IMO replaced with the much better nail the trick), create a park mode was also removed...but I never used it. The graffiti portions found in American Wasteland were also removed...but I found that to be boring and a waste of time anyways. My main negative comment to make about this game is that it has some collision detection problems (I've gotten stuck near a wall and had to switch to walking to get away) and the VERY unrealistic bails. It annoys me when I'm trying to get a line or beat a challenge and bail and litterally fly all the way accross the section I'm in...It's a bail, not a superman impression... I really hope they patch the bails to make them more realistic, because currently it's too awkward half the time to be fun, it's unrealistic..it's not even remotly funny at the minute.

Over all: The game is loads of fun (hence the 5 stars). If you are a fan, pick this one up it will remind you of the good old days. I gave this a 4 overall because of the few issues that diluted the game a bit for me. It is still a fun game that you will spend hours playing despite the few problems.

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