Tony Hawk's Underground

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• You're a punk kid, just trying to prove you're a bad-ass skater in your local scene - see if you can get famous & become a superstar
• Get on your board & explore 9 expansive levels -- either on foot or on wheels -- and find the best spots to grind and pull off tricks
• As you go along you'll be able to design your own tricks with the Create-A-Trick menu, or even design your own Skate Park
• Go online and share your new tricks & parks with friends -- or get new games, stats and online rankings
• The advanced gameplay of Tony Hawk games, combined with the freedom & originality of real street skating!

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000A082T
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 28, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,607 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Xbox

From the Manufacturer

Get ready for a totally new breed of the Tony Hawk experience in-Tony Hawk's Underground. Play as yourself, not a pro skater, and make your way through a plot-twisting, true-to-life story that takes you from unknown local skate punk to fame and fortune as Skater of the Year. Get off your board and explore 9 expansive levels on foot or jump on a motorcycle, BMX bike or go-kart and go for a joy ride. Enjoy unprecedented customization by designing and naming your own original tricks through the all-new Create-a-Trick. Or create bigger parks and include your own goals in the expanded Skate Park Editor.

After you're done, share your tricks and parks online with your friends. You can even download your own face into the game! And, with all-new online play - new games, support for clans - you'll have infinite expansion through downloadable content.

You're the star...you own the Underground!

Product Description

Tony Hawk's Underground takes the action of Tony Hawk Pro Skater and brings it to the underground, where skateboarding started!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tony's new look, November 2, 2003

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"hell_is_it" (CA) - See all my reviews

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

Why this is called Tony Hawk's Underground is beyond me as you can no longer be the Birdman himself. Still this is an amazing game. Probably the biggest new feature is the ability to get off of your board, it opens up millions of new trick opportunities. See a ladder? Climb it and then preform one of this games mind-blasting moves from your high point. This makes combos a breeze. The new skate park editor is much different than in past Hawk games and allow you to creat new levels, not juts backyard skateparks. Creating your skater feels much more memorable in this game since that is your character, no playing as a pro here, instead you have to work your way up to that level. This game keeps THPS 4's open ended level design where the timer doesnt start until you reach a challenge and decide to take it. There are many scripted events and some cut scenes now, such as getting a new board from Bucky Lasek after you bust some of your moves for him, and gettin pulled over by cops are justa few of the scripted scenes. Hawk's graphics have once again been upped. Another cool new feature is the fact that you can create/edit your own tricks, not alot of options here as it is a first for the series (but still how cool is it to pull of a trick you named), i'm guessing in the next game his feature will offer alot more. Unfortunately (and the reason i gave the game 4 out of 5 stars) XBOX and Gamecube owners sre gettin somewaht of a raw deal, their versions are still lacking online play (unless you have gamespy tunnel for xbox) directly supported in the game. ALso one of the cool features available only to PS2 owners is the ability to take a picture of ones face and then send it to Neversoft and have it mapped for the game and then available by the person for download online and able to use it as their face for their creater skater, therefore making "you playing as you". Overall this is a huge addition to the Hawk series and keeps the game going through its 5th installment. PS2 has the best version but dont miss out on this game if you have an XBOX, it still has enough new features to keep you playing.
P.S.If you are reading this review and own a PS2 and an XBOX juts know PS2 has more features but XBOX has much slicker graphics, thats the only difference. Unfortunately for you Nintendo lovers, you have the worst deal, lacking The sharp graphics, and the online ability. If you want XBOX but you want to play online go to gamespy.com, download Gamespy arcade, and then download XBOX tunnel service, all for free, and you can play on your XBOX using your computer's connection (broadband suggested 1-8 players), not XBOX live.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Same gameplay, new RPG twist lots of design features, December 30, 2003

By 

Jeff Johnson "Jeff Johnson" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

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

This is the fifth Tony Hawk game and its like no other game in the franchise. First what makes it different is rather than picking a professional skater, you literally create your own skater or chose from pre made skateboarders and partake in the story mode (in the PS2 version you can get your face in the game, but not in X-Box). The story mode is similar to an RPG game in the fact that you wander / skateboard around an area, and certain people you can speak with. These people will give you objectives / goals to complete. Goals that range from collecting parts, five letters making up SKATE, to getting a high score and impressing other skaters or onlookers. Each goal has its own time limit and usually completing one goal leads to more. Unfortunately with all of these goals and talking to people (you can only talk to ones that have goals), it takes away from the freedom / skateboarding element. The goals have little to do with the story itself, which is being a New Jersey skate punk that wants to make it big and travel the world. The story involves escape from "dealers," street gangs, vehicular destruction, cursing, fun mayhem (at least for the X-Box). The second thing that makes this game unique from any other is apart from being able to skateboard, you can now step off your skateboard (black button), run around, jump (A button) and cling to objects to climb them (R button). So now you can climb objects, jump off them to get some major speed on the way down. The game also has some goals where you drive cars, so that is a diversion that adds to the gameplay as well. You improve your skater's abilities in the story mode by performing greater feats, such as getting speed, and jumping a quarter pipe, you will get a better skill at jumping or going down a pipe causing your skater to speed up you will improve your skill at speed. The X-Box version supports your own soundtracks, but you cannot load all your songs into one playlist, you must play them one playlist at a time. With all of this said there are several modes, unfortunately getting through all of the modes is cumbersome. First is the "create a goal" mode, where you first select a skate area you have been to, and the game lets you create a goal by first placing a person to give you the goal, then select a position where the player starts, then selecting the goal you are to accomplish (collecting SKATE letters, COMBO letters, high scores, tricks, and other goals). Also in this "create a goal" mode, you can select the pro skaters! The game has several of the pros like Tony Hawk, Jamie Thomas, Chad Masek and others or your created skater. Making all of these goals makes the game feel a little more like the old Tony Hawk Pro Skater games. There is a create a skater mode, which seems silly to have being that you need to create a skater to start the story mode. Next there is a create a skatepark editor which is very good when compared to past games. There are buildings, docks, full pipes, water, lava, rails, quarter pipes, pools and everything else to make into your skatepark with five themes to chose from. Finally the newest feature is the "create a trick". You can create your own specials from grabs, flips, kick moves and other things. The tricks may only be used as specials though and they can last anywhere from a quarter of a second to two seconds. There is advanced online play as well as you can go online and get skate parks created by other players and challenge people to competitions. Overall, the X-Box game is dropping in price and its not that much different than the other versions for the Gamecube and Playstation 2 so you may want to go with this game because of the custom playlists and online play.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good gameplay...only 10 hours of it, January 2, 2004

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Justin (New York) - See all my reviews

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

Ok, well, I gave Tony Hawk's Underground only 2 Stars because of the length of the game. I beat this game in three days, and then tried to play more, but it was just boring after you finsihed the game.

On the other hand, The gameplay is smooth, and its a fun game while it lasts. That part deserves about 4 stars.

This is a fun game for a few hours, and definatley deserves a rent or two... but definately not a $50.00 purchase, you'll get bored in less than a week

-Justin

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