Tony Hawk's American Wasteland Image
  • Summary: Get ready for unlimited skating and BMX biking in the vast wasteland of skate culture - Los Angeles.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! PC gamers will be able to compete against one another in multiplayer action via GameSpy. Freedom to ride forever: 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. 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. [Aspyr Media] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. 78
    If the PC is your gaming platform of choice and you've been itching for a bit of skateboarding action, then American Wasteland isn't a bad choice at all, (until the next inevitable Tony Hawk's game, of course).
  2. Over the course of seven games and three acronoyms, the Tony Hawk series has inexorably morphed into the Hot Topic of the videogame universe, a game that glitzily packages and commodifies the skater subculture it glorifies. [May 2006, p.54]
  3. There's nothing significant to recommend this over the previous ones if you already own one. If you don't then this is a good introduction to the series.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. MartinM.
    10
    Dispite those fools at Aspyr media I'm really looking forward to buying the game cuz it's gonna be tha best ever.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. KoenB.
    10
    I didn't played it yet, because I'm waiting till December, so i can buy it for PC. I'm already looking forward to it! I just gave it a 10 because I love all the Tony Hawk Games, and I know this one will be very good too! Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. EmmaB.
    6
    Fun game, but it seriously needs the option of playing a female character in storymode. Just not the same with the wrong gender.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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