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Generally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings

  • Summary: Now you can cruise through LA without loading levels or stopping gameplay in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. You can skate or BMX through a new story mode that takes you through all-new skate areas using tricks that have never appeared in previous Tony Hawk games. The cash that you earn can be used to customize your equipment and your skater by going to tattoo parlors and skate shops. Tony Hawk's American Wasteland also includes a classic mode that features classic Tony Hawk Pro Skater maps and objectives. Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 40
  2. Negative: 1 out of 40
  1. Neversoft has done what I would have thought impossible a month ago. They actually created a game that sold me on the sport of skateboarding, at least in video game format.
  2. 85
    As a whole, the story, attitude and overall focus of the game is much better this time around than what we've seen from the two "THUG" games.
  3. 74
    Perhaps it's time that developers Neversoft go away for longer than twelve months and come back with something other than a glorified extension of a series that seems to be short on innovation.
  4. All told, it's no big loss if you decided to give Tony Hawk a rest for a year. [Jan 2006, p.91]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Negative: 2 out of 13
  1. SamM.
    10
    never played a better game i dont no what the others are on about tony hawks has awsome graphix and is almost real this is a most buy.
  2. Sam
    8
    The THPS and rather short THUG series were great, and I was expecting a similar game with some different twists to call it a new game. I got a new game alright, but just a different one than I expected. Basically, the whole game feels like you've won 100% of your Dad's inherritance, but he only had 500 dollars in it. Expand
  3. ShilohE.
    7
    Deep game. Tons of extras. Fun, but you've played this before.
  4. John
    4
    Awful cinematics, bad collisions everywhere, and the games freezes alot, ps2 graphics on xbox; unacceptable. Even the cover of the box is uotdated. Enough of this.... Expand

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