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Awesome! But They Lie

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: February 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. But there are lots of lies in this game like no loading it loads more than any tony hawk game. But when you ride the bike it does lots of Stupid manuals.

Inpresive Inpresive Indeed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This Game Is Really Cool!! It has a great story line, exelent graphics, lots of characters to choose from (also hidden characters that you can unlock). Over all this game is GREAT!!!!!!

Getting My Money's Worth

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This Game is the BEST. My 11 year old son absolutely loves it. On the Weekends he wakes up extra early does, his chores, and any homework, he may have and plays his game. It' a great Bargin tool.

THIS GAME ROCKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought a gamecube and needed a game so I bought this one. It is awesome. You can play multi player games. On story mode you can unlock levels.

Tony Hawk American Wasteland

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Be careful, I am almost positive I ordered the PS2 version and I received the Game Cube Version.

Tony Hawk has seen better days

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 16 / 18
Date: October 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Up until Tony Hawk Underground (THUG) the series enjoyed a steady upward evolution. Although THUG saw some improvements, the graphics and skate venues suddenly went from clean and sharp in Tony Hawk 4 to dingy and forgettable. The goal may have been to create a gritty world but for me it just looked dirty and rushed. Perhaps it's the stress of trying to put out a new game every year but after Tony Hawk 4 the series seemed much less polished. The addition of non-skateboard modes of travel seemed shallow and tacked on and wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't required to complete the game. The driving portions seemed like they were created in about 10 minutes. THUG 2 introduced a new aspect to the series, a disturbing mean spiritedness. The nastiness continues in THAW and even increases giving players the ability to actually smack their skateboard upside a persons head.

Tony Hawk American Wasteland is an improvement on the two THUG games but still leaves a bit to be desired. The game still seems rushed with bugs and occasional stutters in the frame rate. Some of the tricks have gotten so esoteric to have reached the level of bizarre. The biggest problem is that some of the tricks are absolutely essential in completing the game and some are REALLY hard and this is from a person who has completed 6 versions of Tony Hawk. I am currently COMPLETELY stuck trying to do a manual for what looks like about a half a mile of curvy path.

On the upside THAW has six great levels of Classic Tony Hawk that make me long for the old days. There is a significant amount of BMX biking which although inferior to skateboarding is better than the dismal attempts in THUG to incorporate alternate vehicles. The storyline is improved over the previous two games although still focused on destroying property and injuring people.

I think that Activision needs to stop trying to crank out a Tony Hawk game every year because the series is looking extremely strained. I thought the wonderful Aggressive Inline, which came out a few years back, might light a fire under Neversoft to create a tighter game experience but instead Inline faded into obscurity while Tony Hawk has continued its relentless year by year release.

THAW and stuff

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: November 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the best sports game anyone could buy regardless of what your favorite sport is. And the new BMX mode gives the game more of a..how do u say..edge. BUT there are a few problems. In comparison to the other Tony Hawk titles, this one I have to say a major dissapointment. When Tony Hawks introduced story mode, this gave more creativeness to the game making it more fun. The story mode in THUG1 was really cool but in THUG2 it was a little out of hand with its World Destruction Tour. Now in THAW 1 was expecting it to bounce back from THUG2 but instead it just repeted the same storyline from THUG1. Don't get me wrong this is still a great time, it's just the dudes who made this game could have spent more time on it. For those of you who have never played a Tony Hawks game (which is probably not very many), and are thinking about a good game for an X-Mas present for yourself or someone close , then this is the game to get. But of course you must take notice of what its rated (parents). I will conclude with this- argueably the best sports game in the recent years, this game is a must get, that is if you dont mind scratchy graphics (compared to previous titles), and repetetive modes. Loyal Hawk fans will get this game for sure. Personally I have enjoyed it. But you might want to read the other reviews before taking my word on THAW and stuff.

I Liked It!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

most of these people are crazy. sure, this isn't the best tony hawk game, but it is really fun and there are some cool new stuff in it.

Good for older kids

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My 11 year old played this game at a friend's house and saved up his money to purchase this game. He was protective of his little sisters and brother by picking this over some of the others. First, this one has girls in it, where other Tony Hawk games do not and he wanted his sister's to have an opportunity to make girl skaters when they are old enough to play. Also, you can turn off the blood that spurts out when people fall off their boards. It also does not contain the graffiti with profanity in the way that others do. We limit the play of this game though b/c we do have younger kids in the house. It seems to be the "cleanest" of the Tony Hawk games and my son loves to be able to make his own skate parks and test them.

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I liked this game the best untill I got " UNDERGROUND 2".

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