Super frustrating
User Rating: 5.5 | Tony Hawk's Project 8 PS3
One of the primary reasons that I began skateboarding was Tony Hawk. I remember playing his first and second games like they were the greatest things in the world. Now, I have to endure this crap. The game incorporates a lot of the good stuff from the first games in the series and then it goes WAY WAY overboard. I mean, how much crap are you expected to do while performing a trick. I was told that this was supposed to be a skating simulator but, as anyone who skates will tell you, skating is about fun and that is where this game loses its luster. The game becomes so bogged down with controls and balance and whatnot that all the fun gets lost in the translation. That is to say that if I might as well go outside and bang up my shins for an hour to get the real experience rather than play this piece. I do like the fact that Christian Hosoi and Jason Lee make appearances, that is great for an old schooler like myself but this game simply misses the mark with all the b.s. you have to endure to play. The bails take way to long to recover from and whats the deal with not being able to find codes for perfect balance and rails? I am a full time grad student as well as teaching several classes, even in the summer, so I don't have three months to play a game to get the goods. I appreciate Tony Hawk but this game just doesn't do it for me. Skating is about fun, go out an learn to ride a deck rather than play this one. 
