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AWESOME!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: October 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best in the THPS/THUG series. I love the new BMX bike feature that molds mat hoffmans pro BMX with this game. The bike controls are totally innovative using both joysticks. This game is just one big level(as you probably already know,) and there are NO loading times so you won't be waiting. The story mode is really good to. They have actual characters besides pros!! You move to los angeles from the midwest to continue your skating dream yet when you get off the bus.... your stuff gets jacked by some punk. You then meet Mindy who shows you around and teaches you new tricks (yes you learn tricks other than special). Then you start snagging things for the skate ranch. Skate ranch is basically some guys dream park. You collect things from a roof of a house, to a dinosaur head, to even a limosine. New features are bert slides (the layback slide thingy that they do in lords of dogtown), grind stalls (its exactly how it sounds), and wall runs/ wallflips etc. You can even whack people with your board, throw your board at people, and just drop your board and run. This will please any fan of the tony hawk series so i suggest you buy it!!

Haven't we done this before?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 51 / 58
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Tony Hawk and co. have delivered a new game every year for seven years straight now, and every year I get sucked into it. This year's game is no exception, but I am beginning to wish that these guys would skip a year and spend the extra time making a better game.

The big deal about this game was that the entire game is supposed to be contained in one massive level modelled after the city of Los Angeles. This is true to some extent, except you start with only a small area and then unlock other small areas. In order to get from one area to another, you have to skate across transition zones, all of which are so choppy that it doesn't take a genius to realize that you're basically skating through a glorified loading screen. So in the end, this one massive level really just turns out to be a bunch of small levels strung together, and some of the smallest levels in recent Tony Hawk history, I might add.

For those who enjoyed classic mode, with the two minute timer and traditional challenges, it's back. However, all but one of the levels in this mode are from previous games. Some of the levels are even making their third appearance in a Tony Hawk game.

There are a few new moves in the game, but I have not found any of them to be incredibly useful. You are also able to ride a BMX bike in story mode, which is fun for a little while, but I started to lose interest fairly quickly.

One of my biggest annoyances with story mode was that you are only able to perform tricks after you finish the "mission" that teaches you those tricks. This means that you cannot manual, revert, spine transfer, or natas spin until someone teaches you how to do it, even though you've been doing these moves for years now. Do we really need a tutorial design to the story mode after seven years? Or was it so hard to come up with interesting challenges that they needed to incorporate training into the missions?

My advice to the Tony Hawk crew is to take a break. I love having a new game every year, but I certainly wouldn't mind waiting an extra year if it means we can see larger and more creative levels and interesting challenges again. The formula is getting stale - adding a few new gimmicks here and there is just not doing the trick.

Awsome game from L.A!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: October 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Wow I highly recomand this game its better than his underground games. This is a bust buy game everyones talkin about it, overall Tony Hawks new game 10 stars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good but not great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: October 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok the other reviews seem to say great thing about em but im differnt......
Goods
1.Differnt Move and what not
2. able to use BMX
3. once again online

Bads
1. to easy of a game
2. same stuff but a few minor changes

short but owell all in all this game is a type you should rent twice maybe 3 times, and you should have it beating (If You Have The Time)

so great so good so perfected so cool

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 20
Date: October 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is the best tony hawk game ever

THUG: Tony Hawk's Unreal Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: October 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

With the introduction of yet another installment of the ever-so-popular Tony Hawk's series, Activision and Neversoft have done another great job at convincing the public that skateboarding is all about grafiti, drugs, and destroying things.

To start, let me state once and for all that I am not a skateboarder, and to me the game is very fun and entertaining. However, I am reviewing this game from the stand point that most people think that skateboarding and Tony Hawk in general is about breaking the rules and/or showing no regard to laws and guidelines.

The idea of the game is right: one huge free-roaming level (Los Angeles)to skate / tear up, much like the Midnight Club series and NFSU2. I don't think, however, that the game should be touted and advertised as having "no load times." Of course, every disc-based game must have a load time, so the misleading tag line that the game has "no load times" is not true at all.

I personally don't own the game, I have played it, so my "review" cannot describe the full game in depth. One of the convenient new elements of THUG:AW is the ability to control the complete rotation of your character by tilting the left analog stick in air in the direction of your choice. This allows flips and stalls to be done with much more ease as you can actually rotate fully around.

The game is largely based upon what you look like and how you fit in to certain societies. For example, to be excepted into a ganster environment, you must change your character to match the appropriate guidelines required to be in that social group. The ability to get a haircut is kind of off the point of skateboarding, but it allows for a level of customization that is normally excluded from many games.

So large is this new THUG sequel, that the graphics suffer--at least for the Playstation 2 version. Some of the areas in the game are sketchy because of the overall largeness of the game.

One of the most touted abilities in this game is that you can now ride BMX in addition to skateboarding, or you can ride BMX throughout the whole game. I happen to like the way the game has set up a well organized control list for the bike. Though, once again I am wondering why the ability to ride BMX is in a skateboarding game. The tricks list for the BMX bike is so long that you might consider soley riding BMX throughout the whole game

Well that's my rewiew... I am recieving the game shortly *from Amazon* and will post my thoughts as I complete more of it.

Activision forgets to test game again

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: October 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'll start by noting, that I am not a skateboarded, however many of my friends love the sport. Most of which would laugh if they saw this game in my hands.

As I started playing the Tony Hawk series, I absolutely loved it. I started with TH2 - which in my opinion was one of the best skateboarding/bmx games on the market (even still). With every new TH game, I became increasingly disgusted with what was being released.

This game is no different than any of the THUG series, in fact it looks like the exact same game, just with a new map and story line. Other than that, every aspect of this game is identicle to its predecessors. The fact that realism is completely ignored, and instead your thrown into a world of cartoons and incredibly fake moves. I would sure love to see someone land that 1080 backflip I just landed in real life, until then your stuck playing this game.

Also, as activision ever thought about testing their games before going public? This game is riddled with glitches and bugs, that make it unplayable at times. Going to land that jump? Almost.... Nope, I've been warped to the other side of the map on top of a building, sure I'll do a move off the top, and again nope, your boarder somehow has a mid-air collision with a fly im guessing that causes him to wipe out.

What happened to the good music noted with the TH series? I used to enjoy listening to the soundtrack, now Im forced to turn off my volume so I dont have to listen to the junk spewing from this game.

So do yourself a favor, if your looking for a good TH game, get TH2. If your looking for a game thats idea of realism is running around spraypainting everything you see, and hitting on a pixelated girl that looks like she fell down the ugly tree then this game is for you. If your idea of fun is getting stuck in one of the many glitches this game has to offer, go for it. Otherwise, avoid this rushed game at all costs.

I wonder how many more he is contracted to do ?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: October 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the first Tony Hawk game that I didn`t run out and buy at release. I rented it and I think I am going to demand my rental fee back because of the bugs.
Not only buggy but WHY ON EARTH do you get Hot Topic bands to do horrible covers of classic songs !!!! With the cash this series has made over the years they should have kept the tracks as original artists only.

An OK game, but way too many defects

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: October 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm glad on renting this game for money's sake. It isn't worth past 35 bucks. This game is fun, but with way too many things messed up. These things include the diffculty, in which they expect you to pull off a 10,000 point combo as the 2nd or 3rd mission. This is especially difficult to those who are new to this. Also this is a big downgrade from THUG and THUG2 in graphics, and story. The Create a Modes are figgin' sweet, more if you have an EyeToy to put your self in the game. So unless your a hard-core Tony Hawk fan, rent it first.

Pretty Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Even though you can tell the makers of this game rushed to get it out on time, without checking all the bugs. I have to say that i really enjoyed this game. I have only rented it, but it was sooo fun. I love these kind of games though, the kind that make you think real fast on what you should do next. If you've liked the THUG series i know for a fact that you will enjoy this. I like the new NO LOADING SCREENS thing too, it's alot more fun. THUG 2 blowed, but this game makes up for it!

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