Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland Collector’s Edition gives you the total freedom you need, to make LA your Personal skate and bike park. For the first time, you’ll skate or bike in a rich, expansive open environment. The sky’s the limit as you progress through the Wasteland. No level, no load times — just never-ending action. You’ll never skate the same line twice!
Special Collector’s Edition features bonus content: Two exclusive classic mode levels, secret characters, “making of” feature, Jimbo Phillips art gallery and exclusive packaging.
- Ride BMX bikes
- Story or classic mode, 2-player, free skate or cooperative classic
List Price: $ 29.99
Price: $ 8.78
What a let-down…,
I write this review as a long-time fan of the Tony Hawk series. Except for the very first game, I’ve bought all on their initial days of release.
THAW follows the same pattern of the THUG games, in that the main feature is the story mode, which — although a natural pregression for the series — ultimately comes off as kind of lame. On “sick” mode it is fairly challenging, but on “normal” mode it is far too easy. This could be made up by a compelling storyline, but the story is lengthy and boring, and it doesn’t leave enough freedom in overall gameplay.
The Classic mode is a joke. The only difference between the two difficulties is the total amount of points needed to open new levels. I got through the “sick” mode in two very non-continuous days, and the easier mode in one sitting. It is obvious that this mode was put together very quickly, and with very little thought involved.
The “Collector’s Edition” contains a couple of extra Classic Mode levels, which is nice, and two extra available skaters, which is inconsequential. “Secret” characters were fun back when they had crazy special moves, but now there are about 20 unlockable skaters, and they don’t have exclusive moves. Being able to skate as “Dogtown Guy #2″ doesn’t really do it for me.
If you’ve become bored with the last couple of titles in this series, you might not want to pay for this one. Honestly, you could rent this for 5 bucks and effectively finish everything in the game during the duration of the rental period. Either that or you could ask your parents to give you this for Christmas. Trust me, wating a couple months won’t kill you, and it would be better to have them pay for it.
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|Avoid Tony Hawk’s Glitch City like the plague,
I have Tony Hawk 4, THUG, THUG 2 and this game. I loved the previous 3 games and bought them immediately. But this one, wow. Tony Hawk should be embarassed that his name is on a product that was rushed into production with TONS of glitches. The irony of that is that the game features a skateboard gang that is quote unquote anti-corporate. Whatever. If Tony was less concerned with being on MTV Cribs and more concerned with endorsing a useable product, perhaps the game would be more playable. As it stands, I run through walls, get stuck in ramps up to my waist, my skateboard and the bottom half of my legs disappear into areas of sidewalk, ala GTA Vice City (bad enough when you’re walking- disastrous when you’re doing a combo line!). There are missions where the AI wants me to do a series of requested flips as it calls them out, yet it doesn’t acknowledge that I am doing them and landing them perfectly. The list goes on and on.
I wrote to Activision and told them that since I’d opened the game, the store where I purchased it wouldn’t give me my money back. They would only exchange it for another copy, and what good would that do? I have not heard a word from Activison in response, but I’m not surprised. If they intended to stand behind this item, they would have fixed it before they put it on the market.
I’m out $60. Don’t make the same mistake.
Don’t take my word for it. Just Google the game title and read what they’re saying at the gaming message boards.
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