Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1276 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2007-03-23
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Manufacturer's Description
Rebuilt from the ground up for Sony and Microsoft consoles, Tony Hawk's Project 8 immerses players in the definitive skateboarding experience using ultra realistic graphics, enhanced physics, and extremely responsive controls that simulate the feeling of skating with every trick and bail. The game challenges players to experience the intensity and pressure of skating against some of the world's top pros in true to life competitions as they aim to become the #1 skater. With an entirely new gameplay engine, the trick-based gameplay features amazing, detailed character animations that react realistically on and off their boards, a new physics system, an innovative bail mode, and the ability to move ramps and rails throughout the city. The experience is so real, you don't just skate it, you feel it.

Customer Reviews

All good things come to those who skate
It's been a good few years since I last hopped on a deck and ground my way around Alcatraz Island collecting S.K.A.T.E, ollie-ing over prison warders and getting "big air". Frankly I thought those joyful days were over.
Circumstances continue to surprise me.
Firstly I won a PS3 in a competition where I actually wanted to win the car or holiday. Secondly I spied a pre-owned copy of "Project 8" in a well known DVD rental shop. A moment of weakness and all the pieces came together.

The old magic is still there.
From my embarassingly shaky start in the tutorial mode, when I suddenly realised my fingers had forgotten how to pull off a 3 trick combo, I gradually improved and progressed into the first true game area and last night opened the final area of the game. The learning curve is perfect. From the initial horror of just trying to land a flip without bailing to the sublime experience of racking up my first 150,000 pt combo this game has been an absolute delight. You learn and improve without ever being conciously aware that you are.
Every aspect of the game is so much fun. Just sit back and experience the game, don't push yourself too hard and I promise you'll be skating like a pro in no time. Complete one of the hundreds of amusing mission goals or just free-skate for your own enjoyment. There is never a point when you have nothing to do. The huge next-gen enviroments are fantastically realised and you do find yourself wondering just how to reach that next roof or if you can grind all around that massive rail without ever feeling that the game is pushing you into it.
This is classic Tony Hawk gaming and it's better than ever. I also love the fact that, on top of all the new challenges, every area has one NPC who opens all the familiar "classic" goals from the first 4 Tony Hawk's games.
I'm never going to be a THP8 elite player but I don't care. "Sick" scores are the next challenge I have to face and also finishing off all those spot challenges.

So much about this game is so much fun that I can do little else but strongly urge you to buy it. Don't listen to the "instant gratification crowd", this game is not "hard" or "tricky" but in fact is perfectly paced and intelligently constructed.......it's a thoroughly rewarding experience and as near perfect as I could have ever possibly imagined.

Nice but difficult
I loved the earlier Tony Hawks series on PS2 and havent picked one up since playing 3 so I got this when I first brought my PS3. Graphics were great looking and the initial levels were fun to do.

Whilst this game is fun, for me the further you went on the more impossible it got to complete tasks I felt like I need another 2 hands just to complete some of the stuff.

If you have evolved with this series then this game is ideal for you but someone who cant string together 100,000 point combos are going to struggle.

Fun while it lasted though

good but a few downsides
i have a lot of the tony hawks series and really enjoy playing them. i'm glad we dont have to ride around in a wheelchair or rubbish like that however i miss the bmx (was that tony hawks?!) the worst thing however is no online play - it does have 2 player but if you only have 1 remote or you dont have any brothers/sisters this game can get tedious playing solo constatly. i'd love to see this game with online play - it does on the 360 so why not the more recent "better, more powerful console"