Game Reviews - Indews

The story starts out with your character moving to Southern California for reasons that are unknown to everybody. The game takes you from Hollywood to Santa Monica to Los Angeles to Beverly Hills. Your main objective in the game is to collect pieces for a skate park, but, what seems like a good plan turns out to have severe consequences. The story is boring and pointless. It’s a good idea to skip over all of the cut scenes.

In the eyes of many gamers, this game was just a giant tutorial. They’re right. You are told exactly what to do from the first mission to the last mission. The only people this game will appeal to is die-hard fans of the series. Otherwise, stick to Classic Mode. This at least gives the gamer a taste of what he/she fell in love with in the first place. However, this game doesn’t include the bonus levels that the current gen special edition contains. Both games cost $60. If you have a current gen system, stick with that.

If that’s not a good enough reason to get the current gen version, the graphics are the exact same. Do they plan to get away with this? Give the gamers what they dished out their hard earned money for. The characters are ugly (both graphically and physically), the soundtrack only appeals to males with dirty, shoulder-length hair that use words like “Awesome,” “Dude,” “Wicked,” “Gnarly,” and “Cowabonga,” and the game is too easy. Playing on the hardest difficulty doesn’t seem hard. The only hard part is riding the newly introduced BMX. This was dumb. Leave the biking to Mat Hoffman. Tony is a skateboarder.

I know what all of you have been waiting for. The commercials and other advertisements claimed that there are no loading times. What the developers did was make long hallways for you to skate through while the other areas load. It’s a step up, but it’s still boring. They could have at least put gaps in these areas to give the player something to do. Ah, gaps. That’s really the only good thing that’s back. There’s nothing more fun than going through each level and finding all of the gaps.

This game did not bring the Tony Hawk series back to its previous level of superiority of extreme sports games. It’s still the champ, but there are no challengers. If you loved the previous Tony Hawk games, buy it. If you liked the previous games, rent it, play Classic Mode, find the gaps, and take it back. Its fun for a while, but it’s not worth the money. Happy skatin’, dudes.

-Scizzle