Has its ups and downs. some new features are great while others are just not unnecessary. Though certainly worth the $$$
User Rating: 7.5 | Tony Hawk's Proving Ground X360
Tony hawk's Proving grounds has quite a few new additions to it. Some of the new additions include: 'Nail the grab', 'Nail the manual', The ability to control your speed by kicking off harder, the ability to tweak areas and add rails Quarter pipes and half pipes, a photo taking system that allows you to take photo's of your skater while doing something 'Amazing', the ability to literally beat the hell out of someone by smoking them as you ride by, and a new interface that makes for more realistic game play. First things first, this addition to the Tony Hawk series took the 'Nail the trick' from the previous and took it to the next level with 'Nail the Grab' and 'Nail the Manual'. Nail the grab worked out great and it was a great way to compliment the 'Nail the Trick' feature. However "Nail the Manual" was seemingly very flawed and unbalanced tedious and unnecessary at times. The ability to ride faster by controlling the rhythm of your foot was a great addition that should have been in the tony hawk series all along, not only does it allow for the player to get to where they're going much faster but makes for a better experience while doing it. The ability to tweak the area you're skating in is also a very cool addition that lets the player decide their own way to get to where they're going and make an area a little bit more preferable. The photo taking aspect had some real flaws such as when its involved in a goal your partner would run into you and you'd make them fall or they'd make you fall and the physics of it just weren't to great. Sometimes once you get into the line of the photo it became awkward to keep your balance because the angle is completely different so you don't exactly know where you'll end up. Next is the ability to tackle people as you skate, nothing really necessary for racking up points or anything of the like, but definitely a nice change of pace from riding around and doing tricks, why not just completely smoke an innocent passer by? Finally is the new interface. The new interface shows the player from a closer up angle and it gives a really cool feel to it as well as your balance bars being just a feint colored bar giving a more realistic look to it. All in all This tony hawk is a great addition to the series and in the future if theres any more to come they certainly would work on the kinks of the few aspects that were a little choppy, after all they're new aspects so they can't all be perfect. It has just the right amount of the old traditional Tony Hawk's Pro Skater feel with some cool new aspects to make it a great game. Contrary to most reviews the game is definitely worth trying out. 
