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Tony Hawk's Project 8 [PSP]

Tony Hawk's Project 8 (2006)

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Developer	Page 44
Publisher	Activision
Series	Tony Hawks Pro Skater

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Description

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.

Most Unique, Robust and Realistic Skateboarding Game Experience Ever Tony Hawk's Project 8 offers more goals, side-missions, and secret areas than any other Tony Hawk game. Track your stats with new in-game record keeping or just skate how you want to skate.

The new bail mode allows players to control the body of the skater during falls to minimize or maximize damage for fun. Trick through photo shoot locations by watching yourself skate through a picture in picture to get the best looking shot while on your way to #1 pro skater status. Do it all in a massive living city full of interactive pedestrians featuring all new AI.

The new physics systems allow for a greater sense momentum and gravity. Players will want to seek out bigger ramps to gain enough speed to perform bigger air tricks and get to secret areas.

This game is built from the ground up with an entirely new engine for Sony and Microsoft next-generation consoles and features the most advanced graphics ever for a Tony Hawk game, including full 3D body scans of pro athletes and motion captured skateboard tricks.

Reviews on Tony Hawk's Project 8 [PSP]

Sam Darkens on Tony Hawk's Project 8 [PSP], 18-06-2007

"Really decent!!

The whole storyline makes sense and the controls are easy to pick up.

The places are entirely realistic, and the inclusion of nail the trick, focus made and all the pro skater movies make one hell of a game.

A must have for all skaters with a PSP. "

AJMouse on Tony Hawk's Project 8 [PSP], 25-11-2006

"I like! I'm getting this for the PC, definitely. Or maybe the 360. Not sure yet.

I've been playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater since THPS2 and up. I've stopped at erm.. Tony Hawk's Underground. Never played American Wasteland. But I decided I wanted to try it out again, give Tony another chance. I got this game for my PSP. I completed the tutorial pretty fast (it was easy to understand and definitely do-able). Then I started my career. That's where the fun began.

You skate through places, completing missions for different people. I for one like to get 'SICK' on everything, but on some things I simply couldn't (needed better stats for that). I want to complete something right away and not have to come back later to complete it.

One of the missions was a 2 minute old school run to collect things like the letters S-K-A-T-E or get a 'SICK' score. Complete as many miniminimissions to get SICK for this mission (still following it?). It's like the old Tony Hawk games worked out in a mission. Nice!

Still I thought the controls were pretty hard on the PSP. I kept trying the joystick whilst I had to use the arrows for moving. I'm getting this for PC because the game rox, and I want to play it with the easier keyboard. 3 out of 5. Would've gotten higher for me if I had liked the controls. If you can handle this easyily on the PSP, you'd probably give it 4 out of 5."