Product Description

• Every Play Gets a Different Experience: Explore completely seperate paths that you can go down and jump between however you choose. each path unlocks new events, tricks, abilities and rewards, letting you decide your path to skateboarding stardom.
• Seamless Online Gameplay: Wherever you are, you`re always one button from skating with others, challenge others or team up to session spots and complete challenges together.
• Your "Room": Show off your creativity by building and sharing your fully customisable online "room," stash gear you`ve earned and complete it with your own skatepark.
• Video Editor: Allows you to record and edit clips of yourself skating in-game.
• Expanded Nail the Trick: Invent your own tricks as you now can take control of you feet (flips) and arms (grabs, tweaks) using the analog sticks.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3460 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2007-11-02
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review

Tony Hawk is thirty-nine now and yet already nine of those years have been spent appearing in Activision’s yearly skateboarding sims. As such he has nothing at all to prove any more but in this game you do, as the series takes a turn away from the action adventure gameplay of previous titles and recalls the glory days of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2. Not only does it include real world landmarks from the older game, such as FDR Skatepark and the Love Park, but it also sees the return of favourite features such as Create-a-Park.

In the main single player mode you create your own skater and then follow their entire skateboarding career in one of three classes: hardcore, rigger and career. Hardcore skaters aren’t interested in competitions or trophies, career skaters are and riggers prefer to invent tricks and layouts out of ordinary environments. The control system expands on the Nail the Trick concept from the last game, which essentially creates a kind of slow motion bullet time that zooms the camera in closer to your board. Proving Ground adds in Nail the Grab and Nail the Manual which work in a similar way. New moves include the turbo boosting Aggro Kick and Skate Checking, which basically amounts to knocking people out of the way. Like many new game at the moment the online community will allow you to upload videos of your endeavours as you attempt to prove you’re the best, at the best new Tony Hawk’s game for years.

Manufacturer's Description
In the largest and deepest Tony Hawk game yet, gamers are now in total control of their skating destiny in Tony Hawk's Proving Ground. Set in the streets of Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., the title empowers players with the freedom to define their character, story and style based on the choices they make, the paths they select and the style of skating they want. The game delivers deeper customization than ever before, including a full-featured video editor to create epic skate videos and a completely customizable online Skate Lounge, where players can skate with friends in the ultimate pad. Gamers also have the freedom to skate from single player to online seamlessly. Tony Hawk's Proving Ground also features an arsenal of amazingly detailed Nail the Trick moves, and new gameplay mechanics like skateable terrain building and Bowl Carving to deliver the most personalized and immersive skating experience ever.

Customer Reviews

Tony Hawks...again
Plenty of people look at skate games as the pinnacle of urban sport gaming on todays consoles, lets face it, free-running never quite made it and Tony Hawks' has been around long enough to kick most imitators into touch.
However, with a string of successes under its belt, the series is starting to grind a little.
Tony Hawks' Proving ground opens up the game world to your character, allowing you to traverse 3 entirely playable real world cities. Skate, run and ride across them picking up challenges and points as you go, earning points for your character and discovering more about life as one of three new "classes" of skater. Career, rigger or hardcore are your options and each choice you make unlocks new areas of the story and content for you to play with.
All sounding good so far, but Hawks isnt without its problems. The environment you play in is often a little lacking of the "next-gen" title thats been bandied about by much of the games' publicity material. The characters are odd looking, some are badly modelled, and at times the facial animations are laughable. Cars, trucks and other traffic you encounter all seem to have been placed on a lower priority, with less definition and a certain "PS2" feel to them. Maybe this wont bother you if the gameplay alone is what youre after, but spending £40 on a title that doesnt match up to the performance offered by the console is a little to stiff for me.



Good:
The gameplay is good, there are lots of new additions here.
The environments are huge, plenty of space to keep you exploring for a while.
Character developments and contributions from some of skatings biggest names keep the franchise moving.

Bad:
The environments have a really "last gen" feel to them, and there isnt any easy way to traverse them with any speed.. its all skating or walking.
If youre looking for something new in terms of skating gameplay, this isnt it.
The slew of challenges and goals can get tiresome after a while... but Tony Hawks' was always like that..right?

Final:
Good overall, ok if youre not willing to put much effort in, good in bursts. If youre a fan of the series buy this, because youll probably hate "skate" and spend most of your time griping at the camera angles. Alternatively, if youre fed up with Hawks, buy skate and go try something a little different.

skate-worthy
The TH series is in its tenth year now, and this si the ninth installment. American Wasteland, brought in the revoluntionary "no loading" of an open ended world to skat in. In P8 Activision and NS re-built the game from the ground up, and it was a slight dissapointment. Then skate. arrived on the scene withs its flick-it controls, and became top dog. Although many people say skate is better, there realy isnt that much difference between these two games. PG has most of the features skate does, if not more. Skate and PG, both, beleive it or not, share the paralell goal challenges, and what i mean by that is, in PG u can be a career skater, hardcore, or riger, and in skate. u can get coverage from thrasher (hardcore) and the skateboard mag (career). PG's nail the trick is pretty mcuh flickit, but simpler, and more creative. The idea of boh games is to get sponsors. They both have open ended worlds, they both share the smae graphics quality. They are both good games.


now about PG

Pros

Fun
Easy to pick-up-and-play
controls are the same as always
customisation is ok, big bands, textures are awesome
other things i cba to mention

cons

controls are the same-still the Th trademark button mashing, and unrealistic airs and grinds and combos
not much change-except in "story" mode


overall...

skate. and THPG are both good games, and i own both, skate is probably okay for a bit, but if, like me, you cant use the flickit very wel, and it is hard to get used to, then get PG

i think we can say, we have to wiat for Tony Hawks 10 (and there is going to be a 10th one) and skate. 2 (and there is going to be thataswell!!)

good game but gets old to quick
one of my first games i got for my 360 and i loved it,
but its time for something new from tony hawks, it gets old to quick for me.
but this is still a good game