Tony Hawk's American Sk8land

Tony Hawk's American Sk8land

released on Oct 18, 2005

Tony Hawk's American Sk8land

released on Oct 18, 2005

Tony Hawk's American Sk8land is the handheld version of American Wasteland, the seventh entry in the Tony Hawk's series. It is the first entry in the series for the Nintendo DS, and the fifth to appear on Game Boy Advance. American Sk8land uses cel shaded visuals and it was developed by Vicarious Visions, the developer of the Game Boy Advance Tony Hawk games. The game is based on its console counterpart, American Wasteland, featuring the same soundtrack, many of the same environments, characters. The top screen is used to display the main gameplay, while the touch screen displays an overhead map of the area the player is currently skating, as well as icons for easily performing tricks. The touch screen is also used to create Skateboard art. Furthering the use of the DS's functions is the ability to record, with the DS microphone, your own sound clips for use in the game. American Sk8land was the first Nintendo DS game released by a third party to support the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, the online service for the Nintendo DS. Players are able to play Trick Attack, Score Challenge, Combo Mambo and The Price is Wrong. Players are also able to upload or download graffiti, board art, highscores, and replays to one of the servers, and can periodically download new goals to complete. In the DS version, the ability to get off the skateboard and walk around was removed; however, this was somewhat balanced by the ability to come to a complete stop and rotate the camera. The name is shared by the Game Boy Advance version, also created by Vicarious Visions. The GBA version does not share the same graphics, however, having an isometric point of view, polygonal skaters and pre-rendered levels creating a 3D sensation.


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Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
Tony Hawk's Project 8
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Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
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Pretty fun game. It controls pretty nicely, but a little more stiff than regular Tony Hawk games. It looks fine enough for a DS game. The story mode is also alright, but nothing amazing.

This is a surprisingly good port of American Wasteland. The story is fairly similar, though instead of building up the Skate Ranch, you, Mindy, and Tony Hawk (who plays a larger part in this story than the console version) are building up a warehouse called "American Sk8land", and Mindy and her magazine are a bit more fleshed out in this version. The levels are mostly intact ports with graphical changes for obvious reasons, and some small differences (like the Skate Ranch being removed entirely), though Santa Monica and Oil Rig are absent. In their absence, this version instead gets Alcatraz which I thought was interesting. Each level consists of doing goals for money until Mindy tells you about this or that pro being in the area, then you do a goal for them and follow up by picking one of three new pieces for the warehouse. The controls translate shockingly well, the movement can be a bit stiff at times but tricks and combos flow pretty well for the most part. Getting off your board and parkour are removed but not at any detriment to gameplay, skate shop challenges removed and stats upgrade through certain tricks/conditions like in THUG. The soundtrack, as far as I noticed, also seems basically intact which is a nice touch, there may be some songs missing but I heard more than a few familiar ones.

I tried a few levels in classic mode which seemed totally fine, but there's no new levels, only the ones from the story so I didn't see it all the way through.

Overall a very solid port, I think it's fair to say that this is to American Wasteland what Remix was to THUG 2.

The best portable tony hawk could get for a kid with no psp

fun to dick around in for a while, better than the gba game forsure

I played this soooo much as a kid