Tony Hawk's Proving Ground is a disappointing game fro the PS2 because most of the features have been axed.

User Rating: 5.5 | Tony Hawk's Proving Ground PS2
By SiMgUrL1721 | Review Date:
Presentation - The only modes in Tony Hawk's Proving Ground are Story Mode, Two Player, and Options. On top of that, there are only nine levels to select. All I unlocked was Inner - City, Baltimore Lansdowne, and Philly FDR. Unfortunately, a whole chunk of features have been removed in Tony Hawk's Proving Ground. You can't create your own park, and you can't even create a female character when you customize your person. That is just plain dumb because I was able to create a female character in Tony Hawk's Pro skater 3, 4, Underground 1,2, and American Wasteland. Ever since Project 8 was released in 2006, Activision has removed the ability to create a female character. Also, there is no online mode either, so you can only play two player modes. The goals are more difficult and frustrating to complete than the previous Tony Hawk games. That's probably the reason why I only unlocked two levels. You can add in cheat codes, but it unfortunately didn't save my progress. Overall, the PS2 version of Proving Ground is lacking in so many features.

Graphics - The graphics look decent overall. A lot of textures are very detailed, realistic looking, and it uses a lot of beautifully rendered three dimensional environments. I never spotted and slowdowns or glitches, but the game does have long loading times.

Sound - Again the music really isn't anything mind blowing or fantastic. It's just your average punk rock and hip-hop music. The sound effects like having your skateboard grind on the rail feels recycled. The effects are average pretty much.

Game play - The controls are tight and responsive like your average Tony Hawk game, but the goals are difficult and frustrating to complete.

Lasting appeal - The lasting appeal is greatly limited because there no online modes like the PS3, X Box 360, and DS version has, and the extra features were taken away from the previous Tony Hawk games. In two player, you can still free skate, trick attack, graffiti, and horse.

The good - decent visuals, still has two player and story mode

The bad - not enough variety with modes, no online mode, create a park is absent, and you can't create a female character in create a skater mode, goals are slightly difficult

Presentation- 3
Graphics- 8
Sound- 6
Game play- 7
Lasting Appeal - 3

Overall 5.4 out of 10 Game spot score 5.5 out of 10

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