Tony Hawk's Project 8 (PlayStation 3)

• Average user rating: 2.0 stars out of 2 reviews
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• 3 stars

  This game offers nothing it has promised!!

  by NMAK on November 8, 2006

  Pros: Nice Graphics and Animation.

  Cons: Not realistic as claimed, still cannot pump feet, same as all the other THPS.

  Summary: ***Summary***
  For anyone expecting something different from this Tony Hawk and believing the claims of "Most realist skateboarding game" will be severally disappointed.
  
  I loved the original Tony Hawk 1
  
  
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  Summary: ***Summary***
  For anyone expecting something different from this Tony Hawk and believing the claims of "Most realist skateboarding game" will be severally disappointed.
  
  I loved the original Tony Hawk 1 and 2; but after that it got "Old" the newer versions seemed to offer new to the table since create-a-skatepark. I abandoned the Tony Hawk series after playing Thrasher for the PlayStation 1, truly a simulation of skateboarding and you really got the feel of skating.
  
  To my surprise Tony Hawk project 8 looked like it was going to under-go all the proper changes. The demo trailer makes it look amazing. HOWEVER, don't let those realistic looking tricks and incredible animation fool you, after 30 seconds of actually playing you start doing dry land 540s hitting rails successfully at angles more perpendicular then parallel, and proceeding to do ridiculous spins off the rail. As they promised physics and gravity were added, however I think they need a new physicist, because I can safely say I have never seen someone fly 50ft away from a small ramp they wiped out on. I was most disappointed in the fact that you still do not pump to gain speed, once again you crouching seems to create some mysterious continuous force of speed which you cannot control. This really eliminates any actual skateboarding feel, I remember with the game Thrasher, speed was such a key factor and you had to have a good understanding of your surroundings rather then just randomly hit whatever jump pops in front.
  
  I can understand many of you that still adore the Tony Hawk series you will still like this but you cannot honestly say anything new was brought to the table besides better graphics.
  
  This game may have been made from the ground up, but it looks like they salvaged the components from the old one and put it back together the same way it was.

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• 6 stars

  Great game, but should have made it better

  by good_sk8er on May 22, 2007

  Pros: Free roam like world, great graphics, the nail the trick is really cool

  Cons: no create-a-park, bad character customizations, only two player

  Summary: I like this game alot, but they should have added new things in without taking away the old things that we loved so much

  Summary: I like this game alot, but they should have added new things in without taking away the old things that we loved so much

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