Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3001 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2006-11-16
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Platform: PlayStation2

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

Not the best
Another Tony Hawk game, each one expected to exceed the next with capabilities. For some reason this one doesn't. The story-line is probably the worst yet - the goal being to become one of the best 8 skaters in the area to become part of Tony Hawks "Project 8". The only problem being, once you get to the best position, nothing in particular happens. You work through the levels (which arent continually streaming like in Amerian Wasteland) trying to do these stupid goals like "Try manualling about 200m around this impossible track with many corners".

They used motion capture on the real skaters for the "realistic" look. However realistic the actual kickflip looks, the continue to use the traditional "ollie as high as a house and more" attitude towards things, and when your ollie becomes better you can stay in the air for so long it's just stupid.

Additions like "Nail the Trick" mode (means that you can manually perform a trick in slow motion), and the new Am - Pro - Sick difficulty modes, at first seem a good idea but are generally a waste of time when you consider that the basic areas need improving. The graphics are pretty similar to the games before, some of the levels seem improved but the skaters remain ridiculously quickly made with very bad shape.

They have removed the Create-a-park mode, and have extremely limited the create-a-skater mode with 3 skin choices, and 3 faces to choose from. If you're looking for a complicated person maker, think again. Although the basic Tony Hawk game essence is there, it really is quite a dissappointment. Worse than the last few titles in this series, it seems like a quickly made, bad designed game with many repetitive tasks, boring levels and lack of story. This game was probably made quickly with a big focus on making the new PS3 game better.

Still great, but not AS great...
This is really a very good game. It has amazing quality graphics, nail the trick mode is a great addition to the series, yet, what happened to all the classic imagination that the other games had in spades???
Every single Create-A-Something modes are gone, save for create a skater (which still isn't as excellent as it is on the other games in the series). And in the game, you're character NEVER, not once says a word! He doesn't even yell when he falls over!
And in focusing on making it more realistic, the makers have forgotten everything else! All the secret skaters are just normal people! What happened to people like Shrek, space monkeys and who could forget Tony Hawk's Underground's (THUG's) very own alien mascot secret skater, THUD?
Nail the trick mode is great fun, but very unrealistic. Where did the wow factor of Create-A-Trick mode go?
---WARNING: SPOILER---
Normally, you get a massive, impossibly cool secret level when the game is finished, but on this game, you get a level called Downhill, which is small and has none of the imagination of THUG's Hotter than Hell, or THUG 2's Pro Skater Level, or the fantastic Skate Ranch from American Wasteland. And the final goal is where you make the team with Project 8. I was expecting to make a video or something, but the end is Tony Hawk saying "well done kid, you're on Project 8." A bit anti-climactic, really.
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Most of the goals are simple, and I finished the game in a couple of days, and there are no difficulty levels, or even a Classic Mode!
Despite all this, it continues to be an excellent game, and I would definitely reccomend this game to all Tony Hawk's newcomers, but it will slightly disappoint long time players like me (I've been playing since THPS 2!) That's why my overall is 3 out of 5.
I hope the guys who make these games put all the things this game has been lacking in into the next one in the series!
Long live Tony Hawk!!!

kool reveiw
this game is really good , the only point is that after a couple of days of playing it the missions start getting a bit boring . plus all the stuff you could do in american wasteland , you cant do in project 8 . like ride a bmx or create a skate park , id get american wasteland instead .