Product Description

Just in case you didn't know, the Tony Hawk series is the best skateboarding sim ever--and now, with the release of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, it's even more so. As many young hipsters are aware, skateboarding is taken far more seriously nowadays than any child of the '70s could ever have imagined it would be, with legions of baggily trousered youth able to refer to moves such as a "bluntside" or an "overcrook" with perfectly straight faces. Indeed, the list of silly names for ridiculously dangerous stunts has been increased for this latest sequel, and you can now "skitch" (hold on to the back of a moving car) and grind through traffic. Such minor additions aside, though, the big new change is career mode, which has specific goals and milestones for all the different skaters, adding to replayability.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10330 in Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Model: XBACTV 047875804418
• Released on: 2002-10-28
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: Xbox
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .50" h x 5.50" w x 7.50" l, .35 pounds

Features

• Completely new, non-linear career mode lets skaters choose the level and goals they want. Challenge pros head-to-head to beat their best tricks, take off to a competition, or just skate solo to conquer a gap.
• Evolving levels change depending on the specific skater's goals and accomplishments. Toggle different skate elements on and off (quarterpipes, benches, kickers) to change up lines. Randomize events in multiplayer mode for ever-changing elements.
• Go Pro! Play through 9 levels as an amateur, then conquer your pro's special challenge to unlock the more difficult professional world.
• New, upgraded Ultimate Skatepark editor allows user-set objectives like high scores, hidden tapes, and combo completion. Create a dreampark and give it to a friend to session. Even place lights, insert gaps and modify ground type throughout the park.

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Just in case you didn't know, the Tony Hawk series is the best skateboarding sim ever--and now, with the release of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4, it's even more so. As many young hipsters are aware, skateboarding is taken far more seriously nowadays than any child of the '70s could ever have imagined it would be, with legions of baggily trousered youth able to refer to moves such as a "bluntside" or an "overcrook" with perfectly straight faces. Indeed, the list of silly names for ridiculously dangerous stunts has been increased for this latest sequel, and you can now "skitch" (hold on to the back of a moving car) and grind through traffic. Such minor additions aside, though, the big new change is career mode, which has specific goals and milestones for all the different skaters, adding to replayability.

Curiously, the graphics are still not particularly good, with the same slightly muddy, undefined look that the developers presumably think is all part of the fun. Although they have thankfully realized that having time limits for the levels was unnecessary so that now, except for a few specific missions, you have all the time in the world to graze your knees and cave in your skull. This one looks, as the kids on the street say, sick. --David Jenkins

Customer Reviews

Great, challenging fun
Skateboarding is a fun sport - and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 lets anyone master the cool moves and spins from the comfort of your couch.

Let's start with the huge amount of customization available. You create your character, male or female, giving him a name, home town, age. You then can choose his hair style and color, shirt, pants, shoes, hat, logos, tattoos on ALL parts of the body.

For each item (say a shirt) there is a HUGE range of styles, colors and logos available. You can even tweak the various body parts to make them bigger or smaller! I was extremely impressed with how well you could really customize your player.

Next, there's a full skateboard park creator. You can build your fantasy park with ramps, benches, stairs and much more in it. Then you can have fun cutting loose! There are many sample parks included to play on or to draw inspiration from.

Now, on to the game. There's a Career mode that lets you move through a series of levels, accomplishing tasks on each one. You start out on the college level, zooming around, avoiding the cars on the streets or grabbing on to them for a ride. There are people hanging out around the college to talk to. One wants you to rip down signs promoting the local cop. Another wants you to search for letters. A third wants you to harass the frat boys that are causing trouble. There are a bunch of different missions, each one different, each one helping you to learn a different aspect of gameplay.

You can play single missions to, or against friends if you wish. It can be a bit tricky at first to get the hang of skateboarding, just like in real life. You tend to land sideways and go SPLAT on the pavement, little blood drops flying (you can turn off gore if you wish). But soon you get the hang of it and are doing cool tricks off the railings and walls you come across.

The levels are well laid out and very interesting, with fun scenery to interact with. The various challenges test different parts of your skills and help you learn new ones as you go. The soundtrack is great, with a wide selection of bands. You can turn on and off different songs if some don't appeal to you.

Highly recommended for sports fans!

Great game and very addicting
First off, this game is very addicting, I have trouble putting the controller down sometimes. You just want to keep trying to bust out the tricks. I had never played the previous Tony Hawk games so this was the first I played and the one I learned to play on. The game will not be easy if you haven't played any Tony Hawk's before, but enough time you will learn moves and start to get pretty good at the game in a short time. Just don't give up is what you have to say, grinding, jumps and landing combos will be hard. But once you finally get the hang of it, like I said, you won't want to stop playing. Has a good multiplayer mode too, everything about this game is great.

Can this possibly be true?!
This is one of the best games for the xbox yet! I hated the other three tony hawks but this one blows the rest of them away. This game is actually realistic unlike the other three. There are new special tricks and the scoring is more efficient. The best part of this game is the flatland tricks. They are so much fun to watch and do and also they are very easy points. The new career mode is much more efficient. You go to the level that you are goona be on in career mode and when you start its like free skate where you can just skate around and find cash icons and practice and land some big tricks and all in all just have some fun. But to get goals and more money you visit special people with arrows over there heads and they give you individual goals. Each goal has its own time limit. This career mode is much more fun and also there is new 2 player games. If you are looking to buy a new game for xbox get tony hawks pro skater 4!!!