Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (PlayStation 2, 2005)

This game has tons of new moves as well as all the old ones we have come to love about the Tony Hawk Skater Series Games.

The ads boast a huge playable/explorable level with no loading times but in reality there are several seperate levels divided by even smaller levels. They got rid of the loading time by making you transition through a small level to the next. I was under the assumption you could freeskate from one end of the huge level to the other when in fact you HAVE to transition through these smaller levels.

The game itself was super short and almost seemed too easy for me compared tro earlier renditions of The Tony Hawk games.

BEWARE OF THE ***STORE GLITCH*** - I have personally encountered this and have spoke with many others who have as well. After you join the "Skate-Club" which is a ripoff of Fight-club you end up skating around only wearing your board shorts...no shoes...no shirt....nothing else.... For whatever reason you cannot enter ANY of the stores in ANY of the levels in order to put clothes on or get more or different clothes which is a big problem because one of the missions is to buy and wear an ALIEN costume in order to progress through the game. Now you are stuck with no way to continue through the game!

My advice...Save often and save a bunch of different files in case this happens so you can load up a previous save or two until you can get around this glitch!

This game was a big let down for me as have been most of the Tony Hawk titles since THPS2.