What the hell....
I recently purchased this game and I was expecting a whole lot better. I bought THUG and thought the best idea would be to skip to the latest and "greatest" THAW. This game's plot was stupid, the dialogue was stupid, the gameplay was more unrealistic, therefor stupid. When I bought THPS1, yeah it was unrealistic but the tricks i saw you said "i could see that happening..." with 50% of the tricks you could do, about 80% of the tricks in this game are not possible. I hate that they left out little but pleasing details and added little and stupid details. When I started I wanted to create my skater, not choose one of 4 skaters and change their clothes. I wanted to make him short, fat, bald, chinese, black, white, whatever. Instead you gotta choose one of 4 guys to start your little adventure with. Your board does not get scratched when it's used, that's one thing I liked about THUG, it made you feel you were more into the game and it was a cool, realistic detail. So in THAW they took that out, and a few others including the character creation, blah blah blah and they added AWESOME things like backflips! what...the..hell... why the hell would i want to be able to do a backflip and frontflip when I jump? It's Tony Hawks Pro Skater, not Tony Hawks Gold Medal Gymnist. So I feel they replaced some cool things that had to do with skating from THUG with dumb things that had nothing to do with it and to make your adventure less enjoyable.
Ok, the whole game is based in LA and you have to build a skatepark using junk around the city wich makes it an ugly, boring, disorganized skatepark. The levels in the game really blew, they were all way too small and there wasn't anything to do with em. Almost the whole game just plain sucked. Your friends were all a bunch of wannabe rebellious kids (isn't it funny how when kids "don't care" how they look they all end up looking the same? strange..)and it was just stupid. The whole thing, not getting sponsored, being a soul skater, not using skating for money, that's crap. If you have a talent and can make a living off of it than do so. Plus they were saying how "bad" it was to do that and yet the game is called TONY HAWKS pro skater, wich means they made it based on tony hawk and he gets a fat check for it, so that's a ridiculous mini-plot to the game. If it weren't for just skating around that vans park in the game i would give it a crap score