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Generally favorable reviews- based on 32 Ratings

  • Summary: Reengineered from the ground up, Tony Hawk’s Project 8 immerses players in the definitive skateboarding experience using ultra-realistic graphics, enhanced physics and responsive controls that simulate the feeling of skating with every trick and bail. The game challenges players to experiencnce the intensity and pressure of skating against some of the world’s top pros in true to life competitions as they aim to become the #1 skater. [Activision] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 58 out of 65
  2. Negative: 0 out of 65
  1. This eighth instalment in the hugely popular skateboarding series, and the first built specially for the Xbox 360, is the best and most realistic by far.
  2. Tony Hawk 8 is an incredible upgrade for the series but at the same time it lacks in some areas. Create-A-Park is gone, Create-A-Skate has been downplayed a lot, some things are a bit too easy, and finally the whole world feels a bit stale.
  3. Along with a brand new engine (the first built specifically for next gen consoles), Project 8 looks great, presenting some beautiful neighbourhoods and characters.
  4. Tony Hawk's Project 8 needed to be absolutely mind-blowing for me to catch skate fever once again, and sadly, it just isn’t that spectacular... yet.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Negative: 2 out of 12
  1. KrzysztofK.
    9
    The only improvements are with the graphics and the Nail-the-Trick feature. The controls were always right and a skateboarding game can only do so many things as far as storyline goes but in the areas it could improve it did. The only reason I've downgraded this to a 9 is that I feel like we've taken a few steps backwards as far as the create-a-skater/create-a-skatepark goes. Otherwise spot-on people, spot-on. Expand
  2. AlejandroR.
    8
    Project 8 gets a score of 8. The "Nail the Trick mode" is a cool new addition. The graphics are good and the game is fun. There was only two things I did not like. The first thing I did not like was the constant annoying messages left on my video phone after every 2 or 3 challenges I completed; it gets old quick. The second thing I did not like was that after I was in Project 8 the team (which I could not wait for since I was rank # 200) there was no motivation to become #1. I got on the team and then I had to go back and try to complete the same missions I already completed on sick and pro level(which I already attempted 100 times and failed.) Overall this game is good, which is why I gave it an 8. Expand
  3. JohnPifer
    7
    This game is fun. I don't have much to say about it outside of the fact that its just like every other new Tony Hawk game, the same as the last one with new places and new modes. The good thing about this one is the tutorial and the sandbox effect. Expand
  4. JackS
    3
    This is an OK game, but it should seriously be rated M. i mean, there is a lot of blood, and there's white paste that comes out of your body. that is blood AND gore! its just plain old disgusting. skate says it has blood and gore, but there's hardly any. this is just how i see the game. Expand

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