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It's been redesigned to tell a story, but the story it tells isn't written particularly well. The game has been redesigned to be all about you, as this customizable skater rising to fame. The story mode is where we encounter Tony Hawk's Underground's first real problem. As you proceed, you'll get into wacky hijinks and travel the world, but you'll mostly learn to hate your "good buddy" Eric, who tags along for the ride, annoying voice work and all. He recommends that you get sponsored by your local shop, and your quest for fame and glory sets off from there. Chad Muska comes to town to skate a demo, and one of your goals is to impress Chad. Once you've created a skater, the game puts you on the streets of New Jersey as just some skater kid without a lot of money to his name. The PlayStation 2 version of the game takes the personalization one step further by letting you map a photo of your face onto your skater. The options for your skater are pretty good, with a lot of different parts to resize and texture, and accessories to place, like shorts, shirts, hats, glasses, and so on. The first order of business, when starting the game, is to create a skater, though you can go back and change your skater's look at any time. Since the story relies on you being an unknown, it requires you to use a created skater.
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So the career mode from the Pro Skater games has been morphed into a story mode in Underground.
While the classic Tony Hawk gameplay is present, and still fantastic after all this time, the new story mode doesn't make as dramatic of a change as it probably could have.įor the first time in the Tony Hawk universe, the game has difficulty settings.
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This year, rather than focus on replacing the levels and adding new layers of depth to the gameplay, Activision and Neversoft have tried to turn the entire series upside down, taking the focus off of the skaters who are already professionals and instead putting the spotlight on an unknown skater and his quest for fame, which takes him from the mean streets of New Jersey to the heights of skateboarding stardom. Sure, starting with the second game in the series, you could create your own skater, but that was more of a secondary bonus than anything else, and the focus from year to year was on a series of new moves that kept the gameplay fresh and made the next installment in the series just as addictive as the last. Year after year, the career mode got bigger and bigger, piling on more and more goals and slowly tying them into the pro skater's real-life career.
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In the game's career mode, you picked a professional skater and went from level to level, completing goals that really didn't have much to do with being a professional skater. When it comes to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, there are some standards that have remained constant throughout the entire series.