There are a lot of great Tony Hawk games out there,and this is not the best,but it is fun to play in short bursts.
User Rating: 5 | Tony Hawk's American Sk8land DS
If you're a long time Tony Hawk fan(like I am),then you're not going to enjoy this game as much as a person who's not very picky about details.This game does have many moves included in most Tony Hawk games,but some of them are REALLY GROSS!!Like the Sacktap.Your skater grabs the board and touches it to his sack,obviously!It's pretty gross and has managed to make it into all the Tony Hawk games,sadly.Other than perverted skate tricks,the trick list is pretty good with many special tricks and standard tricks to pull off.This game has barely made an effort for creativity,however.There are tabs that you touch with your stylus to pull off a special trick instead of having to use a combination of buttons.It's easier,but it's not that great and you only start out with one,making you give effort to unlock two more.The graphics are pretty good,but they're weird in a way.They're cartoony,which is odd.The arms look kinda pointy on the top,which is unrealistic unless you shoved a big piece of metal in your arm.The game is pretty easy,probably because it's intended for little kids instead of the usual audience.Because it's intended for kids,the gameplay has to be kinda knocked down a notch so parents won't have a tantrum about it being "violent" or something like that.Also,they took out the blood for some reason.That's really odd because in previous Tony Hawk games(on the GBA),there has been blood,so it doesn't make sense why they took it out.The game doesn't really have much appeal to it after beating the game,because basicly all you can do is repeat goals,or just skate around which gets reppettitive after a while.I do find it fun to run over pedestrians,but even that gets reppettitive after a while.The game is really easy on story.About the hardest goal in the game is to do a 900 Japan spine transfer over a 6 foot spine(wow,that's realistic!),even that isn't very hard.A nice addition is the board designer and graffiti designer.The game really cut down the fun of tagging the hell out of everything in sight by only letting you do it on weird looking green X's that you press A to spray with an invisible spray paint can(it's weird how that works).Another thing that stinks is that you have to beat classic mode with every skater to TRULY beat the game and unlock some pointless sh*t.The game gets REALLY reppettitive after a while,so if you are a longtime fan,nothing new here to report.Just a bunch of sh*t taken down including the feature to get off your board and run.It's a good game for newcomers of the series or portable game fanatics.
