Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

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Product Features

• Never-ending skateboarding action with no levels and no load times
• Travel throughout a rich, expansive open environment in L.A.
• Choose to ride BMX bikes throughout with BMX-specific control system
• More tricks and expanded controls; new on- and off-the-board tricks
• Expanded online and multiplayer options for playing alongside friends

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BU4XHK
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: February 3, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,792 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #1 in Video Games > PC Games > Sports > Boarding & Blading
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

From the Manufacturer

No levels. No load times. Just never-ending action that doesn't stop until you leave the game! Tony Hawk's American Wasteland gives you--for the first time ever in a Hawk game--the freedom to skate, or bike, throughout a rich, expansive open environment. Once you arrive in Los Angeles, the vast city that gave birth to skate culture, the sky's the limit as you progress through the Wasteland story and choose missions that will have you immersed in the action without ever skating the same line twice!

Features:

• Freedom to ride forever: No load times. No level-based gameplay. In American Wasteland, you travel throughout the vast urban terrain of Los Angeles including Hollywood, East L.A., and other landmark areas without restrictions or repetition.
• Ultimate player control: More tricks and expanded controls than ever before! New on-the-board tricks include the Bert slide, Natas spins, handstands, and one-footed grinds and manuals. New off-the-board tricks include wall runs, wall flips, and charged jumps.
• Choose board or bike: for the first time, you can choose to ride BMX bikes throughout the entire game, with all-new physics, a BMX-specific control system, and several BMX-specific goals.
• Customize like crazy: Enter and explore dozens of shops in-game to customize your gear and your look! Check out skate shops, barbershops, tattoo parlors, and clothing stores as you accomplish goals and earn cash.
• Expanded online and multiplayer: complete classic THPS goals alongside your friends.

Product Description

Skate L.A. as one massive streaming worldProduct InformationNo levels. No load times. Just never-ending action that doesn't stop until youleave the game!  Tony Hawk's American Wasteland gives you - for the firsttime ever in a Hawk game - the freedom to skate or bike throughout a richexpansive open environment.  Once you arrive in Los Angeles the vast citythat gave birth to skate culture the sky's the limit as you progress throughthe Wasteland story and choose missions that will have you immersed in theaction without ever skating the same line twice!Get Ready for Unlimited Skating and BMX Biking in the Vast Wasteland of SkateCulture - Los Angeles!Product Highlights Choose board or bike Freedom to ride forever Customize your look deck and tricks - all in game! Bust new mind-blowing tricksProduct Features Freedom To Ride Forever No load times. No level-based gameplay. In American Wasteland you travel throughout the vast urban terrain of Los Angeles including Hollywood East L.A. and other landmark areas without restrictions or repetition. Ultimate Player Control More tricks and expanded controls than ever before! New on the board tricks include the Bert slides Natas spins handstands and one-footed grinds and manuals New off the board tricks include wall runs wall flips and charged jumps Choose Board Or Bike For the first time you can choose to ride BMX bikes throughout the entire game with all-new physics a BMX specific control system and several BMX-specific goals. Customize Like Crazy Enter and explore dozens of shops in game to customize your gear and your look! Check out skate shops barbershops tattoo parlors and clothing stores as you accomplish goals and earn cash. Expanded Online & Multiplayer For the first time ever Xbox Live in addition to the PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system with online capabilities

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy it, waste of money, March 15, 2006

By 

Maike 2190 "mike2190" (California) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (CD-ROM)

First of all, I couldn't even get this game to work properly. I have a high end system with a $400 video card and this game lags!! I can play Doom 3 on high settings but not a Tony Hawk game?

Secondly, this game is way too easy even on the sick difficulty. Half the game was spent earning basic abilities like Manual and Spine Transfer and the rest of the time was spent trying to impress the local bums who give YOU money to do such simple things as Kickflips and 2000 point combos! Every once in a while you'll get a real mission to do but it usually something very simple and last all but 30 seconds. This whole game is beatable in two hours if you skip all the side missions and just do the main goals.

Thirdly, classic mode is incredibly weak. There's only 6 levels! Beat that in one hour as well.

In conclusion: If you must purchase this game buy a used copy. Get it for the PS2 or XBOX instead of PC because this one blows.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Controls are confusing...so they say., June 21, 2006

A Kid's Review

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (CD-ROM)

As i'm sure you have noticed, all the controls on the menu and in some parts of the game of THAW are labelled G=back, O=select etc. Many different reviewers are getting angry because of this inconvenience but if you just think about it, it's all quite simple.G=Grind button, O=Ollie button, R=Rail button and so on. The reason they don't put "keypad 5=ollie(or select)" is that you can change these settings in the "launch" area in the beginning of the game and that would make it very confusing.Many people do nat change these settings but if you've played previous tony hawk games, some of the controls are different and you are already used to them.In THUG 2 the ollie button is KP2 so i'm used to that and i changed it.

This game isn't that bad overall but the only problem for me is the amount of CLASSIC MODE levels. There's only six!!!!

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars THAW goes THUD, March 7, 2006

By 

John (Orange, CA USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (CD-ROM)

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland for the PC takes the series further into the bad taste of THUG2 while going backwards in terms of Level Design and Coding.

For all of the annoying Vandalism and general Chaos that THUG2 glorified, THAW does it even more. It's story is as uninspired as the previous release, but this time adding in more mindless anti-corporate rhetoric, destruction, and causing harm for kids to enjoy. If this were the only problem with the game, I could probably let it slide, but it's just one of the things I've found to be terrible about how the series has been heading.

None of the PC ports of Tony Hawk games have been great, but this one takes the cake for having terrible performance. In the commercial for the game, Tony gets stopped by an invisible wall that says "Loading"... well... now your Skater just gets stopped in long hallways that connect the fairly small skating areas. Granted, there isn't a loading bar, but you will experience lots of slow down and pauses while in the transition "hallways" even on systems that are well above the recommended specs.

That brings up something else that was misleading... it's not just one big area to skate in. They promoted it as being L.A., however what you get is areas that are pretty much just like the previous games in the series take on cities. You get 1 to 3 city blocks worth of area to skate in, and then the hallway.

Challenges range from alright to outright awful. It has a terrible habit of making you repeat a move three times for challenges that span nearly the entire game, which has the effect of making it seem like one giant tutorial level.

Graphics are poor, to put it mildly. The models for skaters look freakish, animations rarely stay synched with audio, and many textures look like they are suited to a PS1 version of the game. The cut-scene animations are decent enough, no real noticable motion capture errors that you usually see in the form of shaking body parts.

Controls are fairly standard fair for Tony Hawk, but since you will likely be dealing with random pauses every few seconds in the game, it can make any trick attempt very frustrating. The addition of a large amount of BMX challenges was decent enough, but it is all starting to feel very dated. The old arcade feel and lack of physics on the board/bike tends to get old quickly.

Unless there is a major overhaul of the series, I can't see a reason to buy another Tony Hawk game. From the awful portrayal of the Skater lifestyle (essentialy a sociopathic criminal in THAW and THUG2) to the non-evolving level design (still feels just like the original PS1 game) and the visuals of last generations graphics, there isn't much new to enjoy.

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