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| Tony Hawk's American Wasteland | 
 enlarge | From: Aspyr Media
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $8.24 (On sale from $19.99)
You Save: $1.75 (18%)
New (4) Used (5) from $3.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 15425
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Me, Windows 98, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 11161
UPC: 618870111612
EAN: 0618870111612
ASIN: B000BU4XHK
Release Date: February 3, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Never-ending skateboarding action with no levels and no load times | | • | Travel throughout a rich, expansive open environment in L.A. | | • | Choose to ride BMX bikes throughout with BMX-specific control system | | • | More tricks and expanded controls; new on- and off-the-board tricks | | • | Expanded online and multiplayer options for playing alongside friends |
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Product Description
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland gives you the total freedom you need, to make LA your Personal skate and bike park. For the first time, you'll skate or bike in a rich, expansive open environment. The sky's the limit as you progress through the Wasteland. No level, no load times -- just never-ending action. You'll never skate the same line twice!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Lots of Fun November 29, 2006
I loved this game mainly because of diversity. I don't really feel like going into huge detail since others have already elaborated but I will say this. Buy a gamepad because it actually IS the controls that make the game. I have a logitech rumble pad cordless.
 Controls are confusing...so they say. June 21, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As i'm sure you have noticed, all the controls on the menu and in some parts of the game of THAW are labelled G=back, O=select etc. Many different reviewers are getting angry because of this inconvenience but if you just think about it, it's all quite simple.G=Grind button, O=Ollie button, R=Rail button and so on. The reason they don't put "keypad 5=ollie(or select)" is that you can change these settings in the "launch" area in the beginning of the game and that would make it very confusing.Many people do nat change these settings but if you've played previous tony hawk games, some of the controls are different and you are already used to them.In THUG 2 the ollie button is KP2 so i'm used to that and i changed it.
This game isn't that bad overall but the only problem for me is the amount of CLASSIC MODE levels. There's only six!!!!
 Fear and Loathing in Direct Ports May 4, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game is very typical of alot of the PC games coming out. It's a direct port from a console game to a PC game with very little change. The controls are extremely confusing. It instructs you to "Perform X trick by hitting the G and R key" but they don't mean the actual G and R key but rather the G and R key on whatever damn console they designed the thing on. To make this worse when you assign keys to diffrent controls it doesn't say G = ________ but rather "Ollie Tricks (Jump)". To add insult to injury on that score you cannot change key bindings from within the game. You have to close the game, use the program launcher to specify a new key, then enter the game and try it, then exit out again to change a diffrent key or rebind that action.
Another problem alot of people are having with this game is lag. In story mode it gets to a place and hangs... from anything from 5 seconds to 30 seconds and above. To make this even more frustrating is that alot of the time the lag hits in the same place where you have to perform a trick. While your trying to do pinpoint splitsecond key sequences, the game hangs for 30 seconds in the middle of your trick... it gets frustrating fast.
All things bieng equal if you want to buy a Tony Hawk game I'd suggest you buy Tony Hawk's Underground 2 instead. It has much less lag, much easier to navigate menus, as well as looking graphically better.
Don't listen to the others April 3, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Overall this is a pretty fun and well made game. I think that the other rewiewers were too critical and took the game to seriously. I read those rewiews before purchasing but went ahead and bought it anyway, since I've been anticipating it a long time. Before playing, make sure to install "DirectX9.0c" when it prompts you to on the very first screen you see. Also, although I have an expensive computer with a good graphics card, the game would always lag on the "very high" 1280X1024 screen resolution setting.
The first thing I noticed was that the menus were confusing to navigate because the on-screen instructions said G=back,O=select,... However, the contols really are keypad5= select,KP6=back,KP4=talk to a person or pick up bike/throw skate board. When I first played it, I was impressed by the screen resolution, even though it wasn't on high res. I'll admit that the cutscreen animations could be improved, but otherwise there was sharp detail and an interactive environment. I also enjoyed the BMX feature.
The advertisement for this game is misleading. Don't expect a sandbox environment streching for miles around L.A. Although there is no loading, each area is connected by a long hallway that lags as you pass through it.
The other reviewers take this game too seriously. It is fantasy, and isn't made to portray real skate culture or realistic skating. You can find a lot worse on the market, in games such as GTA, GUN, and Getting Up: contents under pressure.
Overall, this game has good music, graphics, and gameplay. Just one question: why are the bums giving you money to do tricks?
 Believe It March 25, 2006
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
At the time of writing this, there are 2 hard hitting reviews of this game by Mike and John from California. They are both 100% right in the scope that they chose to address, but I feel - as rough as they were - they were actually being very polite...probably in respect for a game that once was and once could have been.
The oncoming of the THUG series was, in my opinion, a serious lapse in judgement in consideration for the tastes and intellect of the average THPS enthusiast. The games were, at best, depressing in nature (deceit, vandalism, revenge) and insulting to the intelligence of the user.
But as bad as those games were, they warm the cockles of my heart compared to THAW. It's as if they said to a market test group "What are all the things you despise about the new THUG line?" and took the answers and cranked those irritating features up three notches. Not even the most destructive and anti-social teen could be as blandly and patently despising of the human race as some of the characters in this game. AND, no one in the world wants to play the world's longest satellite radio commercial.
If you still don't believe us, go right ahead - but let me just say welcome back when you find yourself right here writing your own review - trying to convince someone else to avoid buying this at retail for PC.
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