Considering that score inflation in the online mode over the years has made the system difficult for anyone other than the hardest of the hardcore Tony Hawk players to enjoy, bringing the scores back down to earth is a good idea. However, this game makes good on the "seamless world, no loading" concept that American Wasteland touted. Most of the animation that's been used and reused in Tony Hawk games is gone, replaced by all new motion-captured tricks and rag-doll physics. Is the eighth time a charm? Where American Wasteland just hid the loading by forcing you to skate between areas in tight, non-descript tunnels, Project 8's world is truly seamless. There are also points for reaching specific scores and combos in the high score mode, playing and winning online, and more. Size Matters The moderately-sized levels have a healthy number of challenges. By the end of the game, one of those skaters will be you. ... To most, the arrival of any new Tony Hawk is a … Fitting. At this point, the two analog sticks (or the Sixaxis' tilt sensor, if you're so inclined) control your feet, letting you flip the board around in a variety of ways. on November 8, 2006 at 6:33PM PST. New this year are Spot Challenges. The young (and ridiculously talented) Ryan Sheckler heads up a list that includes Paul Rodriguez, Jr., Nyjah Huston and Lyn-Z Adams Hawkins. The worst Tony Hawk game yet. There's a bit of voice work in the game from the pro skaters, but since they only turn up during very specific challenges, most of them only have a few lines. Tony Hawk's Project 8 is a skateboarding video game and the eighth installment in the Tony Hawk's series. In addition to being a former pro skater and running his own skate company, the guy's an actor, and he manages to deliver his lines quite a bit better than the skaters do. None of the areas pop with energy or vitality. The only time you'll see loading screens while playing is if you retry a goal that's halfway across the city, forcing the game to pause for a bit while it warps you there. Want us to remember this setting for all your devices? So Suburbia, School, Downtown and Factory (I, II and III) are all interconnected and part of the same town." You can connect to a game with up to eight players and just skate around. Tony Hawk's Project 8 is the eighth release in Neversoft and Activision's venerable skating series. Grind versions of the chalk challenge have you skate a specific grind line in an attempt to reach the next chalk marking. Suburbia, The Factory, The School -- we've seen these same areas before, but done much, much better in other versions of Tony Hawk. You'll perform at skate demos several times over the course of the game, and these work by splitting the crowd watching the action into three zones. This is a cake walk and even the Pro difficulty is pretty easy. It manages to strip down the overall game design and focus on the core elements that have made the Tony Hawk series great while at the same time introducing new and innovative control and physics. In the same vein as Madden NFL, Tony Hawk Project 8 is a game you can be sure you'll enjoy if you still have interest in the franchise on a yearly basis. Ultimately, it is and it isn't. However, the number of licensed shoes in the game has skyrocketed, presumably because the nail the trick mode gives you a detailed look at your feet. Not really up to par but I guess almost none of the Tony Hawk games' stories have been. Instead, many of the game's goals offer three different levels of completion. Fans will not be disappointed and newcomers will find themselves welcomed to the party with open arms - highly recommended. Share Tweet Submit Share. Tony Hawk is looking for the top eight amateur skaters in the world. Like old-school Tony Hawk games, you'll clear one area to open another and then be able to select specific levels. Tony Hawk's Project 8. GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Both versions also contain a cool pro tricks section that lets you view the skater models doing tricks as they were motion captured. Please use a html5 video capable browser to watch videos. Today we're covering two versions of Tony Hawk's Project 8 - the original Xbox version, and the 'next-gen' PS3 version. 33. But as you get better and better at it, you'll find that it's a handy way to rack up some points when worked into your trick combos. If you've ever been a fan of the Tony Hawk series, this game is worth your time. The only real test of your skating prowess is nabbing Sick ratings. As a segregated event, it seems a bit pointless. The game still has weird goals and sometimes, challenging events. Tony Hawk's Project 8 review The Hawk has landed again. There are a lot of different goals in the game--in fact, there are plenty of times when your compass gets so cluttered with goal arrows that you're not quite sure what you should do next. Neversoft reassured me, a THPS 4 fan, that Tony Hawk's Project 8 is a bit of a throwback to that game. Tony Hawk's Project 8 Review 1 Tony Hawk's Project 8(Xbox 360) by dsplayer1010 on July 26, 2008. The level design is similar to American Wasteland, in that Project 8 presents the world as one large city with different sections. Tony Hawk appeared on the Xbox 360 last year, but Tony Hawk's Project 8 marks the first time that the series has been built from the ground up for the current generation of consoles. Bam Margera, once again, can't stay out of the garbage, and he'll demand that you launch yourself off of a building and land in a dumpster. Er, the good way. The lines in Project 8 are so obvious they might as well come with a neon sign. Tony Hawk appeared on the Xbox 360 last year, but Tony Hawk's Project 8 marks the first time that the series has been built from the ground up for the current generation of consoles. You'll also meet up with pro skaters and then take on specific challenges to show them you're legit. Ryan Scheckler focuses on gaps and acid drops, Daewon Song has you move pieces around a small area to set up a lengthy grind line, and there are five more challenges to play through over the course of the game, not counting Tony Hawk's grand finale, which is different depending on how many goals you complete at the higher levels. It reinforces the concept that actual skating is, at the pro level anyway, insanely difficult. No more. 19. Written by Cyril Lachel on 11/28/2006 for 360 More On: Tony Hawk's Project 8. Enter a massive world: Tony Hawkג€™s Project 8 offers more goals, side-missions, secret areas, and mini games than any other Tony Hawk game. By Warren Dunlop (Dec 9, 2006) 8.5. For a time, it seemed like the old glory days of the Tony Hawk series were long gone. Without this, the PS3 version feels sort of flat by comparison. The career is helped along by several appearances by a virtual Jason Lee (Mallrats, Enemy of the State, Stealing Harvard), who guides you by informing you of new skate demos, pro challenges, and other more important goals. The name Project 8 sets up your characters main goal. Like in many of the sports games that have transitioned from the previous generation of consoles to this one, in Project 8 there are a lot of features and options that haven't carried over from American Wasteland or the previous games in the series. The future of Tony Hawk games was bleak. It was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision in November 2006 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable.The game complements the release of Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam, which is conversely available on Nintendo systems. Story - 5/10 Basically, the story of the game is that Tony Hawk is coming to your town, as he hears that there is a bunch of undiscovered talent there. Sorry, but you can't access this content! But those the PSP version has what it takes to become a good game let us find out in my review. You start off as a skater with a low ranking, so you need to do as many cool tricks as possible to move up in the rankings. These test your specific skating skills, whether it's grinding a certain distance or trying to gain air. Tony Hawk’s Project 8 (Xbox 360) We may earn a commission if you click a deal and buy an item. Track stats with new in-game record keeping, switch characters mid-game to accomplish a goal, or just skate how you want to skate. With Tony Hawk's Project 8, Neversoft ditches having long stories like in the last three games, and keep the story at a minimum and focuses mainly on skating. Tony Hawk’s Project 8 – PSP – Review. The game also has an achievement for beating a developer or beating someone who has beaten a developer in an online game. Like American Skateland, Project 8 has Tony looking for a new skate team of 8 skaters. Those options were nice to have in the previous installments in the series, but Project 8 doesn't feel like it's missing a large chunk of content or anything like that. Rather than setting you up with a very clear critical path that takes you to the top, the game is a bit more open ended. The streaming content is impressive, but no matter where you go, the rickety framerate comes with you. The one area where the current-gen versions trump next-gen is that you can increase your skater's speed. Every secret token found, gap crossed, and challenge beaten propels your created skater up the rankings. Summary: Reengineered from the ground up, Tony Hawk’s Project 8 immerses players in the definitive skateboarding experience using ultra-realistic graphics, enhanced physics and responsive controls that simulate the feeling of skating with every trick and bail. Page 44, who was primary developer for the PSP version, chose to return Hawk to its more traditional roots for stat progression. We encourage you to read our updated PRIVACY POLICY and COOKIE POLICY. Privacy Policy, Now Playing: Tony Hawk's Project 8 Video Review. Neversoft has aired the gap with THP8, bringing it to the next-gen level. Tony Hawk has done it once more, and thank god it’s not a reincarnation of American Wasteland. You can get to Project 8 by mastering the Amateur level of difficulty on challenges. You can move the camera around, focus on the board, roll the sequence in slow motion, and see just what level of fancy footwork goes into doing actual skate tricks. Complete enough challenges and you'll enter the Birdman's elite Project 8. Go to page: Page 1 Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Friday 17 November 2006 To its credit, the PSP version has slightly stronger design than its next-gen counterparts. Tony Hawk's Project 8 Review. When the initial gloss wears off, you can only feel like you've experienced this effort in some past life, or a few months back when the … You start out ranked 200th, and everything you do is focused on increasing that rank. The online action is a lot of fun, and in a surprising twist, you can still use the slow-motion nail the trick mode during online games. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. If it wasn't for its frame rate problems, Project 8 would be a great-looking game. Look, at the end of the day, Tony Hawk’s Project 8 is a good game despite its faults. In fact, the speed of Project 8 on PSP is enjoyably faster than what is seen on 360 and PS3. By default, it's low enough to serve as background music that doesn't get in the way of the action. In fact, completing the ten challenges in each Classic zone can go a long way to boosting your rankings. And while the gameplay is great. This isn't to say that the game world has nothing to offer, just that it just feels uninspired. Ultimately, it is and it isn't. Overall, Tony Hawk\'s Project 8 scores big with this long-time fan, as I am sure it will with anyone who looks back fondly on the THPS glory days. It works, but it lacks the precision offered by the D pad, so it's a neat experiment that's pretty good at showing off what the Sixaxis is capable of, but you probably wouldn't want to play through the game this way. Share on Facebook. Tony Hawk's new scheme is Project 8, and he's looking for the top eight skaters in town. Underneath all those differences lies the same basic game, and it's not that different from what Tony Hawk fans have come to expect from the series, but the changes are noticeable and welcome. Some of the best vert and street skaters have specific skill tests. Other than the choppy frame rate and slightly sharper graphics on the PlayStation 3, some of which is only noticeable when using an HDMI cable on a high-end HDTV, the games look roughly the same. On the 360, it's just enough to get in the way of the gameplay. The Xbox 360 version also uses its online support to present a lot of different online leaderboards. On the PS3, it's enough to make the game feel unfinished, but only on the occasions when it really starts dropping frames. Bob Burnquist's pro challenge asks you to jump out of a plane and perform tricks in the air. Since your skater improves over the course of the game, you might not be able to reach the sick levels for these goals right away, giving you a reason to come back later after you've raised your stats. Tony rides again in the next Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game from Activision. Tony Hawk's Project 8 Review Tony Hawk is a veteran of the video game world, but he's got some new tricks. Project 8's tutorial should help new players get into the swing of things, but ultimately it's fans of previous installments that will get the most out of this game. Tony Hawk’s Project 8 (Xbox 360) Review ... Review Price: £34.99; After going through last year's Tony Hawk's American Wasteland I started to worry that the series was starting to lose some of its charm. The PlayStation 3 version of the game is more unstable and sinks to lower depths than its Xbox 360 counterpart. Jeff Gerstmann has been professionally covering the video game industry since 1994. While you can still create your own skater, your options for hairstyles, faces, eyes, and so on are way more limited. Project 8 takes place in an open city, but initially you'll be locked into a pretty small area. Project 8 features one giant streaming city to skate in (only on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360), which contains various skateparks and "hidden sections". Join Project 8 Using last year's engine, Project 8 features 10 different areas, none of which are directly connected. Review Tony Hawk's Project 8. The models and animation are great, but an unstable frame rate really gets in the way. Project 8 just didn't live up to the other games in the series. There is some intermittent framerate issues, but nothing too distracting. Have you played Tony Hawk's Project 8 [Past-Gen Version]? By. Some levels look brighter than others and the grass looks good. You need to constantly do tricks in each zone to keep each section of the audience happy. Tony Hawk's Project 8. Comments; Shares. Considering their wooden delivery, maybe that's for the best. The PlayStation 3 version of the game distinguishes itself by offering complete support for the Sixaxis controller's motion-sensing abilities. Presumably, this is done to help speed up loading, but the load times don't seem much better than the Xbox 360 version of the game. PSP. You can, quite literally, take air and hit the grind button and be almost certain to grind something by the time you reach the ground. Tony Hawk's Project 8 review Real skating bite, minus the wheelchair By Omeed_Rafizadeh 20 November 2006. Sick. The PlayStation 3 version also installs a 264MB cache file onto the system's hard drive when you first put the game in your system. Great. Blood, Language, Mild Violence, Alcohol References, Crude Humor, The Best PlayStation Deals for January 2021, CES 2021 Highlights: The Biggest Announcements From The Show, Reassessing M. 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It’s still Tony Hawk and it still has a few moments of fun but if you’ve grown up playing Tony Hawk as I have, then this title … PS5 And Xbox Series Restock This Thursday, Redesigned career mode gives you multiple levels of challenge, nail the trick mode is a cool-looking addition that has a positive impact on the gameplay, online scoreboards add more lasting challenge to the career mode, skater creation options aren't as in-depth as they have been in previous installments. 6. okay. Tony Hawk’s Project 8. As it should be, the intermediate Tony Hawk player should be able to accomplish the pro-level goals more often than not, and some of the sick level goals are, indeed, sick. All in all, it's a fun, streamlined mode that focuses on the gameplay without spending too much time with needless story sequences. Design on a Dime All of this is fine and dandy and, with the right level design, could make for a decent entry in Activision's long-running series. Tony Hawk skates onto Next-Gen systems with Tony Hawk's Project 8. Bam Margera shows up in the Slums. But there are other, more significant differences between the two versions. Like every other release on Microsoft's platform, the Xbox 360 version of Tony Hawk's Project 8 has a series of achievements that you earn by completing specific tasks. The environments are bright and colorful, and even the gross-looking pedestrians that have given you goals in the previous games have been replaced by nice-looking close-up shots. The achievements are designed much better here than they were in American Wasteland, with a handful of points coming for just progressing through the story mode, while many, many more come from mastering it. You can enter it while in the air by pressing in both analog sticks, which slows the action and moves the camera to your feet and your skateboard. Description In Tony Hawk's Project 8, The Birdman is out looking for the top 8 skaters for his new Project and it happens that he has stopped in your city to search for the best top skaters.It is up to you to prove that you can make the cut among the 200 other people varying for the coveted 8 spots. By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's Jeff Gerstmann That's right, instead of having to play classic two-minute Tony Hawk challenges in a separate mode, you can now do so in the middle of the city. While a few of the old guard come into play, including fan-fave Bob Burnquist, the majority of the pros are newer stars. The redesigned career mode and multiple difficulty goals inject a lot of excitement into the formula, and features like online leaderboards and Xbox Live support really make the Xbox 360 version stand out. The Tony Hawk series was a pioneer when it came to being online on the PlayStation 2, and its omission on the PS3 is completely crazy and thoroughly disappointing. Terms of Use and Some of these are difficult, but shouldn't be too great a test for veteran Hawk fans. Good Tony Hawk game. The majority of skill contests have three possible rankings: Amateur, Pro and Sick. This effectively negates the purpose of the challenges, which, in the next-gen versions, is to allow you to complete tasks while free skating about the levels. PS5, Xbox Series X Bundles Available At GameStop On Thursday, PS5 Restock Updates: Check Latest Stock, Updates, And More, Xbox Series X Restock Updates: Check Inventory At GameStop, Amazon, Best Buy, Microsoft, And More, By Tony Hawk gets a bit more mic time, but even he seems like a bit player in the game. The story-line is probably the worst yet - the goal being to become one of the best 8 skaters in the area to become part of Tony Hawks "Project 8". The graphics are great, and the gameplay is fun for both beginners and experienced players. Instead, it's Jason Lee who does most of the talking. The primary way to move through the game is to complete goals, but the goal system has been thoroughly reworked this year. The game runs at a good speed, but unfortunately the frame rate just can't keep up. It'll be interesting to see how this viral achievement works its way from player to player. The game has a good career mode that doesn't bog itself down with too much story. The Xbox 360 version has online support for up to eight players, including a new game mode called walls, which gives your skater a tall trail behind him that behaves sort of like the light cycles in Tron--if you hit another player's wall, you're out. © 2021 GAMESPOT, A RED VENTURES COMPANY. There are about 45 skaters in the game, including unlockable characters, w… The graphics of the previous installment were poorly ported, not in Project 8. The gameplay is as freeform and as technical as it's ever been, with some smart changes on that front that are enough to keep fans of the series interested, while a new tutorial is aimed at getting new players up to speed. Your goal is to rise from your sad #200 ranking among amateur skaters and crack the top eight. The game's goals offer multiple levels of difficulty that should challenge players of all skill levels. There are also chalk challenges for being able to reach a certain height while launching off of a quarter pipe, natas spinning or stalling on specific objects, wall planting or wall riding up to varying heights, and so on. You can set it to just control functions like balancing, if you like, or you can move and execute tricks with it, as well. In the cut scenes the graphics look amazing. You can get by if you can complete the amateur-level goal, but there are also pro and sick levels to achieve. Project 8 coming to Marketplace. An E3 preview by a member of the PlanetTonyHawk.com staff stated "The levels are massive and an amalgamation of just about every level in the early THPS games. 90. Tony Hawk's Project 8 demo. Those frame-rate problems hit the PlayStation 3 version of the game significantly harder than the Xbox 360. But moving up to the pro and sick finales will most definitely take some time. Much like Amped 3, many of the different goals in the game have their own individual leaderboard, which adds some competition to the single-player game and gives you a reason to keep on playing the same goals again and again. The big gameplay change this year is the addition of a new slow-motion trick mode called "nail the trick". Another Tony Hawk game, each one expected to exceed the next with capabilities. One of the keys to Tony Hawk's longevity has been Neversoft's ingenuity in level design. The idea behind THP8 is that players will take on the role of a skater who's got to work his way up the top 200 ladder of skaters nationwide to join Tony Hawk's elite Project 8 group. Tony Hawk's Project 8 Review. On Live now. There are a lot of new skating-on-surfaces effects this year that really enhance the sound of the game. Tony Hawk's Project 8 tries to go back to the basics of what made the first games so likable, while still keeping a "story" for those who thought that was a good addition. Tony Hawk is starting up something called Project 8, and he wants to find the eight best skaters in town. jkdmedia-May 4, 2012. It is called PROJECT 8 because it's the eighth game in the Tony Hawk series; in this game, Tony Hawk is on a quest to find the eight best skaters. If you're in a position where you have to choose between the two versions of the game, the Xbox 360 version offers a more complete package. In addition to the new walls game type, old modes like trick attack, score challenge, combo mambo, graffiti, and horse are also available. Tony Hawk’s Project 8 was meant to be a revival for the series, but to me, this is like a burial, and they aren’t even bothering to sing Ave Maria. Tony Hawk Project 8 simultaneously captures the feel of the original games, while adding many new tricks, features, and challenges. Unfortunately, some technical glitches and unstable frame rates plague both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 version of the game. The level-creation tools show up in a limited form during the career, but there's no option to make your own skate park or goals. The scoring system has been reworked a bit, so it's a little more difficult to post up ridiculous combos and multipliers by abusing a ton of lip, grind, or manual branches. It's very strict on its timing, making it difficult to use at first. Tweet on Twitter. Tony hawk's project 8 for PSP review Tony hawk gets into a g 3D style. Which version is better? The soundtrack in Project 8 is your typical mix of multigenre licensed music. You need a javascript enabled browser to watch videos. Yes, that's right, the legs-straight-out benihana animation you've come to know and love over the years is history. By benjones on 2007-01-22 | Version reviewed: Xbox 360. Skate up to any highlighted character to engage in specific challenges, including the re-modeled Classic Mode, which now works within the structure of the Career Mode. Project 8 feels like an exhalation, as if Neversoft, Shaba and Page 44 are all saying, "Well, we're tapped out." Tony Hawk's Project 8 Review. You have to try to work your way up from the rank of 200 to one of the top 8. There are a lot of new sound effects in Project 8 that really enhance the experience. The host then chooses to start a game and things go from there. To combat that, you can choose to limit players to one part of town or a few areas that combine multiple parts of town into one area. Project 8 is a remarkable balance of … The Best Anime Fanfiction Where the Hero Is a Villain. And you are “the rising one” which makes the game sound mythical. Introduction: I bought this game the other day for the PSP and am happy with it, but Shaba took lots of things this game had on the next gen systems. This latest Tony Hawk adventure puts a whole new spin on the skater genre. The large city is nicely designed and has plenty of opportunities for ridiculously long combo lines. All in all, people that have stuck with the series over the years should be able to blaze through the game's goals and get the amateur ending after about six or seven hours. Tony Hawk Xbox 360 demo soon. But, the level design in Project 8 is lacking. Reviews, previews, screenshots, movies, trailers, and downloads for Tony Hawk's Project 8 for the PlayStation 3 (PS3). 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