It is a good game all round for me.

User Rating: 9 | Tony Hawk's Proving Ground PS2
With skating games I imagine it to be quite difficult to come up with some new and good ideas. One good idea they have had is the new look for your balance meter, instead of it being a little line that moves from side to side, they have made big bars on each side of you when your skating and they also change colour, but these new bars are so much better as you havent got to concentrate on balancing as much, you can concentrate on pulling some good tricks and earning points.
The graphics have also improved slightly.
The difficulty, basically it is easy to get AM on all the missions but its when you try to improve to PRO and SICK it becomes more difficult, which makes sense! But some of the SICK challenges are impossible, like the classic goals, I really dont see how you can get all ten (I think it is) classic goals in two minutes, to get a SICK score. It is still worth playing though!

Dont listen to the gamer reviews that put this game down. I think it was worth the money. Go and buy it now!