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Game Information
- Platform: Xbox 360
- BBFC Rating:
Suitable for 12 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 12. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 12 years of age or over. - Media: Video Game
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Product Features
- Freedom to Play Your Way: mold and shape their character however you choose.
- Create Epic Skate Videos: Capture all of your sickest tricks and bails.
- Online Multiplayer: Join online multiplayer action anytime directly from the single player story.
- Unprecedented Control: Eight all new gameplay mechanics empowering players to play the way they want.
- Learn from a Pro: Learn new tricks and mechanics from their favorite skateboarding stars.
- Greater Variety of Customization: Use Rig-a-Kit to transform any locale into your own personal skate park.
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Tony Hawk is thirty-nine now and yet already nine of those years have been spent appearing in Activision’s yearly skateboarding sims. As such he has nothing at all to prove any more but in this game you do, as the series takes a turn away from the action adventure gameplay of previous titles and recalls the glory days of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2. Not only does it include real world landmarks from the older game, such as FDR Skatepark and the Love Park, but it also sees the return of favourite features such as Create-a-Park.
In the main single player mode you create your own skater and then follow their entire skateboarding career in one of three classes: hardcore, rigger and career. Hardcore skaters aren’t interested in competitions or trophies, career skaters are and riggers prefer to invent tricks and layouts out of ordinary environments. The control system expands on the Nail the Trick concept from the last game, which essentially creates a kind of slow motion bullet time that zooms the camera in closer to your board. Proving Ground adds in Nail the Grab and Nail the Manual which work in a similar way. New moves include the turbo boosting Aggro Kick and Skate Checking, which basically amounts to knocking people out of the way. Like many new game at the moment the online community will allow you to upload videos of your endeavours as you attempt to prove you’re the best, at the best new Tony Hawk’s game for years.
Harrison Dent
Product Description
- Every Play Gets a Different Experience: Explore completely seperate paths that you can go down and jump between however you choose. each path unlocks new events, tricks, abilities and rewards, letting you decide your path to skateboarding stardom.
- Seamless Online Gameplay: Wherever you are, you`re always one button from skating with others, challenge others or team up to session spots and complete challenges together.
- Your "Room": Show off your creativity by building and sharing your fully customisable online "room," stash gear you`ve earned and complete it with your own skatepark.
- Video Editor: Allows you to record and edit clips of yourself skating in-game.
- Expanded Nail the Trick: Invent your own tricks as you now can take control of you feet (flips) and arms (grabs, tweaks) using the analog sticks.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
I believe that this will probably be the last decent Tony Hawks game with Ride getting terrible reviews left right and centre. Although the franchise is still shows signs of exhaustion in this release, it is nonetheless a fun game which offers more of the Tony Hawk game we have grown up with.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
From what i've played so far it is a good game. the graphics are good and customisation to your player and their board is too. However, the controls are tricky to handle. unlike SKATE. you have to use millions of different button combinations. I have only played the SKATE. demo and to be honest i enjoyed that more than what i have played on this game so far. Here's a hint to any new comer... to push fast you hav to hold A then repeatedly tap RB. It took me ages to work that out as i was just free skating, and in the book it says to hold A. all that does is push slowly once, and if u tap it you ollie. :-S Once you do get used to it it is a good game. themissing .... ?
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Plenty of people look at skate games as the pinnacle of urban sport gaming on todays consoles, lets face it, free-running never quite made it and Tony Hawks' has been around long enough to kick most imitators into touch.
However, with a string of successes under its belt, the series is starting to grind a little.
Tony Hawks' Proving ground opens up the game world to your character, allowing you to traverse 3 entirely playable real world cities. Skate, run and ride across them picking up challenges and points as you go, earning points for your character and discovering more about life as one of three new "classes" of skater. Career, rigger or hardcore are your options and each choice you make unlocks new areas of the story and content for you to play with.
All sounding good so far, but Hawks isnt without its problems. The environment you play in is often a little lacking of the "next-gen" title thats been bandied about by much of the games' publicity material. The characters are odd looking, some are badly modelled, and at times the facial animations are laughable. Cars, trucks and other traffic you encounter all seem to have been placed on a lower priority, with less definition and a certain "PS2" feel to them. Maybe this wont bother you if the gameplay alone is what youre after, but spending £40 on a title that doesnt match up to the performance offered by the console is a little to stiff for me.
Good:
The gameplay is good, there are lots of new additions here.
The environments are huge, plenty of space to keep you exploring for a while.
Character developments and contributions from some of skatings biggest names keep the franchise moving.
Bad:
The environments have a really "last gen" feel to them, and there isnt any easy way to traverse them with any speed.. its all skating or walking.
If youre looking for something new in terms of skating gameplay, this isnt it.
The slew of challenges and goals can get tiresome after a while... but Tony Hawks' was always like that..right?
Final:
Good overall, ok if youre not willing to put much effort in, good in bursts. If youre a fan of the series buy this, because youll probably hate "skate" and spend most of your time griping at the camera angles. Alternatively, if youre fed up with Hawks, buy skate and go try something a little different.
However, with a string of successes under its belt, the series is starting to grind a little.
Tony Hawks' Proving ground opens up the game world to your character, allowing you to traverse 3 entirely playable real world cities. Skate, run and ride across them picking up challenges and points as you go, earning points for your character and discovering more about life as one of three new "classes" of skater. Career, rigger or hardcore are your options and each choice you make unlocks new areas of the story and content for you to play with.
All sounding good so far, but Hawks isnt without its problems. The environment you play in is often a little lacking of the "next-gen" title thats been bandied about by much of the games' publicity material. The characters are odd looking, some are badly modelled, and at times the facial animations are laughable. Cars, trucks and other traffic you encounter all seem to have been placed on a lower priority, with less definition and a certain "PS2" feel to them. Maybe this wont bother you if the gameplay alone is what youre after, but spending £40 on a title that doesnt match up to the performance offered by the console is a little to stiff for me.
Good:
The gameplay is good, there are lots of new additions here.
The environments are huge, plenty of space to keep you exploring for a while.
Character developments and contributions from some of skatings biggest names keep the franchise moving.
Bad:
The environments have a really "last gen" feel to them, and there isnt any easy way to traverse them with any speed.. its all skating or walking.
If youre looking for something new in terms of skating gameplay, this isnt it.
The slew of challenges and goals can get tiresome after a while... but Tony Hawks' was always like that..right?
Final:
Good overall, ok if youre not willing to put much effort in, good in bursts. If youre a fan of the series buy this, because youll probably hate "skate" and spend most of your time griping at the camera angles. Alternatively, if youre fed up with Hawks, buy skate and go try something a little different.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
tony hawks
Nice game if you like this kind of thing, seems they have tried to put a story line into the career mode but come on this is tony hawks your supposed to skate and rack up points by... Read more
Published 1 month ago by trim
Makes you want too tear your hair out
This is quite possibly the most annoying game i have played, gone is the past glory of Tony Hawks 2,3,4, what we have here is a stupid coctail of tests, challenges etc, I... Read more
Published on 24 July 2009 by D. A. Bassett
Shame
I found this game second hand for a fiver so i thought I'd buy it and try it compared to SKATE instead of taking peoples word for it. Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2008 by Master Eldridge
skate-worthy
The TH series is in its tenth year now, and this si the ninth installment. American Wasteland, brought in the revoluntionary "no loading" of an open ended world to skat in. Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2008 by JamesW92
good game but gets old to quick
one of my first games i got for my 360 and i loved it,
but its time for something new from tony hawks, it gets old to quick for me.
but this is still a good game
but its time for something new from tony hawks, it gets old to quick for me.
but this is still a good game
Published on 15 April 2008 by A. hall
Two new games
I think skate will be good for hardcore skaters like me, but this will be great for dossing around on if your not in the mood to concentrate. Read more
Published on 30 Sep 2007 by L. Roberts
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