Fun skateboarding experience at a low price. Graphics are a huge let down though.
The main let down in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is the graphics. I have seen the Xbox version at a freinds house and the graphics on Xbox 360 are not much different at all. If you are looking for a skating game with good graphics then this would not be a good game to buy. Still it's not a bad buy I guess for only 20 bucks.
Like any typical skating game, the gameplay is extremely unrealistic. (How the hell are you going to move an 80 tonne concrete stairway with a skateboard???!!!)
All in all I give Tony Hawk's American Wasteland 7/10 and it misses out on a perfect 10 due to the terrible graphics, unrealistic gameplay and the similarity to THUG 2.