Product Description

Region free, full English language, will play on any PS3 console system

Reengineered from the ground up for Sony and Microsoft`s next-generation 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 and establish their town as a skateboard destination. Delivering continuous skating action in a free-roaming living environment, Tony Hawk`s Project 8 incorporates the series` most popular features, all of which have been enhanced with next-generation technology.

• Next Generation Gameplay Brings Skateboarding to Life: Tony Hawk`s Project 8 is built from the ground up with an entirely new engine for Sony and Microsoft next-generation consoles and features the most advanced graphics ever for a Tony Hawk game, including full 3D body scans of pro athletes and motion captured skateboard tricks. Gamers have the freedom to progress through the game in multiple ways and decide the type of pro skate they want to be.
• Most Unique, Robust and Realistic Skateboarding Game Experience Ever: Tony Hawk`s Project 8 offers more goals, side-missions, secret areas and mini games than any other Tony Hawk game. Players track stats with new in-game record keeping, switch characters mid-game to accomplish a goal, or just skate how they want to skate.
• Innovative, Never-Before-Seen Gameplay Elements: Featuring new gameplay mechanics, Tony Hawk`s Project 8 challenges fans with the most goals ever in a Tony Hawk game. Players interact with pro skaters who teach special tricks and show paths to secret areas. New elements include: <

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1805 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2007-03-23
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

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.

Tricky to master, but a welcome return to form
This game has had some lukewarm reviews in the gaming press. One of the comments that almost put me off buying it was a complaint about choppy framerates. After witnessing this in F.E.A.R. and other poor Xbox-to-PS3 conversions, I was expecting the worst.

Let me reassure you right now that the only time the framerate goes a bit wobbly is when you move from one major area to another, i.e. when new level data is being streamed off the disc. Even then, it only lasts about 2 seconds, and many times it doesn't happen at all. While I have been skating around and pulling tricks in the many different game missions, I haven't seen any slowdown at all.

With that out of the way, the rest of the game is the same tricky-to-master skateboarding game you either love or hate. Personally, I stopped playing the Tony Hawks games once they started moving away from the skateboarding into Jackass territory. Project 8 is a welcome return to the business of skateboarding around realistic environments, performing ankle-twisting tricks. The controls are relatively easy to master although sometimes, for accuracy's sake, you might want to use the D-Pad instead of the rather vague left analogue stick. One excellent feature is "Nail the trick" in which you can click both analogue sticks down whilst in the air, sending the game into a slow-motion close up of your feet on the skateboard. At this point, you use the analogue sticks to move your feet, thereby kick-flipping the board under your feet. You then have to make sure your feet are lined back up as the grip tape side of the board rights itself, and this can take some practice, but it's well worth the effort.

The graphics are very impressive and the soundtrack has a reasonable amount of variety (as long as you like Thrash Metal, Hip-Hop or Punk). That said, I really think you have to be a skateboard/snowboard fan to enjoy this.

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