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Xbox 360: Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

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May 17, 2005 - The Tony Hawk franchise is an impressive series for numerous reasons. The once small, un-noticed development team previously only recognized for its incorporation of Bruce Willis into an action game vaulted to the heights of popularity with its Tony Hawk Pro Skater series in 1999. Then, each following year, it began bringing us new ones. Seven years later -- Neversoft hasn't flinched. Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is the seventh game in seven years, and by any stretch of the imagination, that's an achievement worth noting, especially in compared to the rest of the games in this category, which have literally dried up and gone away.



Remaining the most long-lasting and easily the best skateboarding series on the planet, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland returns the series to its roots yet simultaneously expands it with several new features. First, the game will appear on multiple systems: Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox 360. While the PlayStation 2 series has always been online, Neversoft has finally taken it to Xbox Live. Yes! Xbox players can glory in the all-night goodness that is Tony Hawk online, challenging their friends, talking crap, and goofing around while connected. That's a real coupe for Xbox fans, but that's just the beginning.

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland was envisioned as a streaming, non-stop playable city. You travel back to the city of Los Angeles in the 1980s -- at the height of its punkdom -- and explore a completely level-free, non-stop experience. You can literally play the game for 10 or even 20 hours without stopping without a single-load time. OK, there is one load time, the one that loads up the first level. But that's it. Everything else is seamless, menu-free skating. The city is massive. You'll see and experience the Hollywood strip, theaters, bars, strip clubs, and even the LA River. You can get on a bus and cross town in a split-second, or enter subways to instantaneously transport you to other parts of town.

As your progress through the city of LA -- Hollywood, East LA, and Downtown are the first levels we saw -- you'll encounter multi-stage missions, in which funny, goofy, and otherwise hilarious characters push the story forward. Yes, there is a story this time around. Taking its cue from the Tony Hawk's Underground series, which Neversoft sees as different than Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, you can play through the game as a no-nothing skater from the Midwest who wants to make it big in LA. On your way, you'll meet characters such as Mindy who acts as a guide in your huge new playground.

Unlike in the Underground series where you constantly switched modes, American Wasteland incorporates everything -- the custom aspects of your career -- into the one teeming city. You'll change clothes, cut your hair, and customize yourself with the sophistication of the previous games, only now everything is built into the one city. Want to change your hair? Go to the barber shop. Clothes? Hit up the clothes store. And so on. Once you're in the city, you won't have to leave.

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A video can be found here : http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/747/747897/vids_1.html

I've been hooked on the Tony Hawk series lately, and T.H.A.W(heh) sounds pretty sick.
 
The only Tony Hawk I got was Underground, was a pretty fun game, but skateboarding just aint my thing.
 

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