Tony Hawk's Proving Ground

[Boris Magee]

Hey guys

I'm really bored and I have nothing to do that doesnt involve studying so I thought I'd let you know about my thoughts on THPG. This is for 360

I know what youre thinking, blah blah blah unrealistic crap stupid blah something like that.
Me too, I got it for really cheap and thought yeah, I used to be a huge fan of tony hawk games so why not.

Obviously now skate is my main game.
Anyway, i found it a LOT of fun to skate realistically in. This wont be like any other review you have read probably because i'll just focus on playing it realistically.

You can turn the hud off, speed down, and sim mode on, and it plays really well. Sim mode makes it so that you dont go 1 million miles per hour when you start to crouch or grind a rail. You can drop off a rail / ledge without ollieing by pressing the trigger. And nollies are fully functional, in addition to pushing. as in you can choose when you push, and how hard with manipulation of the agro kick feature. Stalling on lips is cool to, so noseblunts abound.

It features a skate-like camera, and a video editor which is pretty functional. Looking at the animations in slow mo isnt that great though so this isnt a game catered to making videos for me, but for just skating around.

The create-a-park feature is really fun and I have made some great set ups. A lack of session markers isnt even noticable in create a park because you can make it so you have fun objects to skate everywhere.

The city is pretty damn big, and is catered to realistic skating just as much as the normal thps playstyle. I guess they were going for authenticity so yeah.

Overall, for my 10 bucks, I have got a lot of value out of it. I was surprised at how many things you can do in skate, you can do in THPG. Huge city and not to mention create a park make it so that if you like playing it, you will be playing it for a while. sim mode and hud off and speed down make it surprisingly fun to play realistically, so yeah if its cheap and you want something different from skate give it a try.

thats all guys, peaeaeaeace