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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.