Tony Hawk's: Proving Ground, is a good, basic skateboarding game. It's
Probably the best skateboarding game on the Nintendo DS, considering
there's only three skateboarding a games out there, and one in
development (Technically there's only two, because Tony Hawk's Downhill
Jam is more of a racing game than a straight up skateboarding game).
I
believe they did a good job with the graphics, considering they had to
be Nintendo 64 quality (maybe a little less), that the levels are
fairly big and they could fit them all on there. But hey, technology is
amazing these days. The only thing is that the trees look rather
"junky," I know this is a Nintendo DS game, but I think they could have
done a better job with the trees then what they had done.
There
really is no storyline other than you're a new skateboarder, you just
opened a skate park, and Tony Hawk magically appears to be in town.
After you do what you have to do in you're skate park, you then go to
Philly, then it just keeps going on and you have to complete specific
goals to pass the level. Basically the so-called "storyline" is the
same since Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. With the exception of Tony Hawk's
Downhill Jam.
The gameplay is the same basic gameplay from all
the past Tony Hawk games, except that you have the "special" tricks
that you can pull if you tap their image on the touch screen. The
environments are just as good as the past Tony Hawk games, but they are
somewhat smaller then the new ones in games such as American Wasteland
and Project 8. But hey it's a handheld game for Pete's sake!
Some
people may be wondering about the character customization and how good
it is. It's good, you can design your clothes and your skateboard deck.
But what I've noticed is that the shirt customization has one problem,
it has to be a long sleeve shirt. It can get pretty aggravating when
you have a great idea for a short sleeve short, you make it, and
suddenly you remember it has to be a long sleeve short. Then with
modifying the shirt to be a long sleever it can be either better, or worse. But other then that one problem, it's great.
In
summing this review up, TH: PG is a solid game that can be recommended
to either the hardcore Tony Hawk fan or the casual gamer that wants to
go on a Tony Hawk video game ride
