Pros: Create your own main character, graphics, story, voicing, gameplay, scenery, online compatable.
Cons: Walking controls, game is short, not as challenging.
The Bottom Line: Tony Hawk's Underground is a great, solid game that will entertain easily. Great for parties, but not exactly a game to pull on all-nighter like the others.
pandie's Full Review: Tony Hawk Underground (Platinum) for PlayStation 2
Tony Hawk's Underground, the 5th installment in the highly popular skateboarding series, is meant to break new grounds. It gets YOU into the main story. It gets YOUR board along with it. This is YOUR journey to skateboarding fame.
Sounds like a pretty sweet deal, right? The whole concept of customizing a skater to play the main character is a nice move, but there's not exactly a wide selection like the previous PS2 THPS's. However, if you have the 'ware, you can upload your own face to the skater digitally. Now that's pretty sweet.
Also available is the freedom to customize your own board. Nothing makes me skate better than my yellow stars/black background deck. Yeaah...
Another great feature is that now you can choose the level of difficulty. There's a level for begginers to the series, where you never wipe out. Then of course there's the Sick Mode, where you need to be skilled to handlE the timed missions.
THUG sports awesome, true-to-life locations, such as Manhattan or Oahu, Hawaii. The graphics are smooth and brilliant, making you want to get off your board to watch the scenery.
Yes, you can actually get off your board and run around! However the controls are very tight, making it easy to fall off something or end up going in circles when you want to turn around.
The only bummer I see in this game is that it is very short. The locations are excellent but there is few of them, the missions in each are not as challenging as you'd expect, and you'll spend more time trying to grind on a boat in Hawaii than trying to land a McTwist over a police helicopter.
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