TH:PG is a solid game that can be recommended to either the hardcore Tony Hawk fan or the casual gamer.

User Rating: 7.5 | Tony Hawk's Proving Ground DS
By Gaming_Retro | Review Date:
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 then 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), and 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 kind of lame, 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 then 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 do if you tap them 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 sleeve shirt, 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. And if you don't want to break down and buy it, you can rent it and then see what you think.

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