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American Wasteland

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

I like Tony Hawks American Wasteland a lot. I like the goals that you have to complete. They are challenging and fun.You can switch from bike to board easily.I also like the places where they put the ramps.I play this game a lot. The only thing that I do not really like is the goals on level 4, otherwise, the game is really awesome!!!

umm...ok.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game was alright. i've been playing tony hawk games since thps2. this game is nothing special, i'd rather play thug1 because that at least has jamie thomas. the only things i thought that were cool is the new spray feature where you can spray the ground, and the few new moves. the new no load screen feature is a joke because you still have to change areas with a loading screen in multi-player. also i didn't really get into the soundtrack i guess because i have this version. also why didn't activision keep the create a deck mode the same as thug1 why did they change during thug2? after thug1 the tony hawk games have been going down hill and have had a cliche story mode. all in all this is pretty much a clone of thug2, it's just a dressed up version of that.

best game i've ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this is the best game i have ever played,
and it is so much fun i could not set my controller down.
if you like tony hawk rent or (what you should do)buy
an awesome game beginning to end you will love it.
and for those who haven't played tony hawk or do not like the previous ones. here is the chance to admit that superb puts the s in skate boarding.
BUY THIS GAME NOW!
P.S. if only all games were this good

One of the better skating games

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

American Wasteland is alright not all that fun but not so bad that no one would buy it. Once you get in to it it's not that bad but it doesn't take very long to beat I beat it in one day.

Ify

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Not the best but not the worst. Ok but pretty much the same as the undergrounds. Its still one of the best skateing games out there.

Disappointing, tired, old looking game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to like THAW. I'd played THUG et al and enjoyed them for what they were, but I really expected American Wasteland to step up to the plate and add something to the TH games.

After all, the TV ads hinted at a GTA3 style of gameplay - lots of exploring across the entire west coast with the freedom to go where you want and no loading times. I had visions of jumping from skyscrapers, skating for hours down streets, going where I want - when I want. After a few minutes play though, the reality sinks in. There's no freedom, no massive free-flowing levels, just the same enclosed levels you've played many times before. Level load times are replaced by dull, pointless empty interior corridors and tunnels which serve NO purpose - no plot advances, scores or interaction happen in them. You simply plod through to the next small claustrophobic enclosed level.

Gameplay things fair little better. In story mode you usually have to perform 3 or 4 tricks to 'advance' things a little. This soon proves massively tedious as should you fail anyone of the tricks at any time during the 'mission', you will have to start again. So you listen to the bad acting, watch the awful lipsyncing and terrible out-of-place body movements. Sure you can skip each sentence, but you have to endure the animations - over and over and over again until you manage to perform the exact sequence of button presses the game is expecting from you, sometimes within a 5 second time limit or less. As a player you only do it to open up new levels, not because it's fun. Frustration rapidly overtakes ANY enjoyment gleaned playing the silly challenges in story mode.

And so you turn to classic mode for relief. Except in classic mode the level loading is back! Yup, no tunnels for you. Loading screen, percentage bar and all are here. So what the heck is the point of it all? Let me repeat that - you CANNOT freely travel in classic mode. Sigh.

Another unforgivable new addition to the TH series are the outrageous bugs found in this game - my character has fallen through the floor, got stuck behind a wall and the game has even crashed out completely. You'll be seeing the save screen often.

So it's pretty poor and simply not worth your money - especially if you own one of the previous games. Oh, there's a redundant addition of bmx riding (which you can't do in classic mode, and is utterly useless in story mode) too. But that doesn't save Tony Hawk's American Wasteland from being a buggy, unfinished, crude-looking game.

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS THE BEST HAWK GAME IVE EVER PLAYED I LOVE THE CREATABILITY THIS GAME OFFERS YOU CAN CREATE A BOARD YOU CAN HAVE TATTOOS AND CHANGE YOUR LOOK. I LOVED IT... IT WAS WELL WORTH THE MONEY AND I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY IT GOT BAD REVIEWS.

Not too bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

1. Just like Tony Hawk Underground 2...
2. With less character customisation...
3. Board graphcis customisation
4. And trick customisation.
5. BMX bikes rulez....
6. But where are all the other tricks? Off-axis 360 flip? Nothing superman? No hander? Suicide No hander? Turndown?
7. Not-too-shabby voice acting
8. You spend abt 5-15hrs making a messy skatepark? Huh? Can't we have a blend of BMX and skateboard stuff and be done with it? Why put some trash in the park?
9. Classic mode is quite good
10. But lack of old THPS, THUG levels.
11. I rather have load times than skate through tunnels.
12. More skate competitions and bike competitions!!!!!

Note: It only gained 4 stars because of the criticism above.

hard but fun!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 07, 2006
Author: Amazon User

DON'T listen to anything those other guys are saying! everything they said is not true. this game is ten times better than any of the pro skater games. and blows both thug games out of the water. the graphics are awesome, the story was hard (not beatable in 5 hours like they say) and extremely fun. the classic mode is the bomb. all the new create-a modes are sweet!!! the bmx bike is pretty hard to get used to but when you learn the basics it gets pretty fun. I love that they got rid of the loading screens and made one humongous level. well anyways this game is worth well over 50$ A++++++

Tony Hawk Online

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Tony Hawk American Wasteland is another good addition to the Tony Hawk collection. Story Mode is way less cheesy as the THUG story mode and the plot is more interesting. I've enjoyed all the Tony Hawk games except for THUG 2. Live has revolutionized the Tony Hawk games now that all Tony Hawk fans can compete online. You can also just chill with other people while you skate as well.

I would recommend getting this Tony Hawk game if you want to compete on Live.

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