Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

released on Oct 18, 2005

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

released on Oct 18, 2005

You are a new skater in the city of L.A.. The main drive of the game is that your hanging around with a skating group and its leader, who also happens to be a skating legend, at their skate park in Beverly Hills called Skate Ranch. Throughout the game you must help your friends by getting skate pieces for Skate Ranch. The game marks the third reinvention of the series, with Pro Skater being the first, and Underground being the second. It comes with brand new features like the ability to change your personal appearance in game, as well as the ability to get off of the skateboard and use a BMX. For the first time all of levels are strung together into one big environment, which gets rid of loading times and menu selection. Old features were also kept like Create-a-park, which dates back to the Pro Skater series. Missions are still acquired by going up to random people or friends and accepting the mission they want you to run. The game also includes a multiplayer mode and co-op for up to 2 players for added replay value.


Also in series

Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
Tony Hawk's Project 8
Tony Hawk's Project 8
Tony Hawk's American Sk8land
Tony Hawk's American Sk8land
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Tony Hawk's Underground
Tony Hawk's Underground

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Ended up calling it quits probably 3/4s of the way through after getting stuck on trying to trick over Mat Hoffman in 1.3 nanoseconds and then my ps2 crashed and I had to go to the start of getting the pros to join

Ultimately a game I enjoyed a bit more than THPS4 but still not without issues of testing the limits of physics and matter with some of the goals they put forth

Now being an adult in my late 20s and not a teenager who had ample time to sit around and grind out stats I can imagine some of the goals being a bit easier

I like a lot of what this game has to offer (getting off the board, board stalls)

I think the story while pretty mid overall is pretty good for a skateboarding game even if there's some arbitrary grinding for money to miscellaneous reasons or padding when it came to other missions (Do X this many times in every location)

I didn't play the classic mode but I could see myself coming back to this to try the classic mode

We straight up stole the Hollywood sign and put it in a skate park.

Back on my bullshit again, it seems...

I have a kinda weird relationship with this game. I love it a lot, but I consider it to be a weaker entry in the series. I just have tons of little issues. The huge amount of tutorials, the annoying roadblocks, the fact that there's almost too many moves you can do. Just lots of minor annoyances. Doesn't help that this was my first time playing a THPS game on the GameCube, which that d-pad was not made for games like this.

But... despite all that, I really love the Ethos of this game. It almost feels like the most Authentically Punk game in the series! Yes, some of the crude 2000s humor is an eyeroll, but the rags-to-riches story is really endearing with some fun characters and plays around with the history of the sport in an interesting way. Plus, it's still a Tony Hawk game! It's tons of fun! These levels are top notch. Sure it's not a true open world, but I respect the ambition a ton.

Overall, it's hard for me not to love a game in this series. The only Neversoft one I don't love is Proving Ground. So even a weaker Tony Hawk game still fucking rules.