Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

by ACTIVISION

Product 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 jum
• 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.

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0009Z3HOW
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 15, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,504 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #6 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Sports > Boarding & Blading
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Xbox 360

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland gives players the freedom to experience continuous skating and BMX biking action without leaving the game or waiting for load times as they explore and choose missions in a massive, living Los Angeles skate world.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Just not up to XBox 360 standards, January 21, 2006

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Lisa Shea "medieval swordfighting enthusiast" - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (Video Game)

Tony Hawk's skateboarding games are by now a classic style of gameplay. The XBox 360 should have kicked up the graphics to a new level. It didn't quite make it.

The game really annoyed me right from the start. You're a country yokel heading off to the bright lights and big city of Los Angeles. Apparently according to this game, LA is the one dream destination of every skater.

You get to choose your character from all the "stereotype races" - i.e. white, black, hispanic, oriental. But they are ALL MALE. What's up with this?? Other games let you customize your character to the Nth degree. Here you can't even change your GENDER.

OK you choose your guy, get dropped off in a relatively tiny map area where you can change your hairstyle and shirt/pants through a few choices. Then you get little mini-missions to do - earn cash, learn tricks, meet challenges, and so on. There's some wry humor in here, such as throwing darts at the oh-so-easy-to-harass Ben Affleck. Does the guy really deserve this much harassment? Sexy girls are around to flirt with you, and save-the-sheep protesters chant monotonously.

The moves are fun and easy to master - hopping on rails, spinning in circles, taking advantage of pretty much everything you can see. You can smash glass and tag the walls with your mark.

That being said, it got old pretty quickly for us. The graphics just weren't stellar. The dialogue got redundant. The missions were often very vague and you had to retry them a few times to figure out exactly what they wanted out of you. It's a great game to rent first. If you really love it, by all means buy it! But if you play it for a week and have finished the game, then it might be time to move on to something new.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's more then it's made out to be!, December 10, 2005

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Bradley Bouchard (Maine, USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (Video Game)

Yes the graphics are subpar for a next-gen system but, This game is extremly fun, not to mention that there are many more tricks plus bmx, so don't listen to the bad try it for yourself.

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING!, October 24, 2007

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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (Video Game)

This is an incredible game. The graphics are beautiful, the sound is sharp, and the levels are well designed. Another high point is the extremely addictive gameplay (so prominent in every Tony Hawk title.) I've played THPS 1, 2, and 4, THUG 2, and Project 8, although this is my first Hawk gaming experience on the Xbox 360. The graphics (despite this being the 7th out of 9 in the Tony Hawk series) are about the best I have seen so far... Of course this is because I've only played the previous games on PS2, Gamecube and N64. Despite this fact, this is wonderful.

The game is comprised of a classic mode (in which you complete classic challenges like collect SKATE, find the hidden tape, and achieve a sick score) and a story mode (much like the quite hilarious Underground 2.

BOTTOM LINE
If you are a teen looking for an amazing gaming experience, grab THAW for the 360 and be blown away.

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