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So I got my subwoofer working today. Good grief does it make a difference! Every skate-check gets a heavy thump, bailing makes a deep crunch, even aggro kicking gets a meaty whoomph from the speaker. Excellent! As far as the game went, I (again) beat a few more street challenges, and then mopped up some more Classic and Hawk-Man goals. The Museum Classic goals were bloody difficult, although really shouldn’t have been. Could I natas spin the switches to turn …

Since today was mainly taken up with setting up my new surround sound kit, I didn’t spend long playing games. I did, however, break Tony out for a while and finished off the last Uber Goals, completing those remaining. The Pro one was really quite hard (on the Nail The Trick demo especially), until I realised you could manage more than one of the ten required tricks in one combo. Then, as usual, I completed some more street goals. 87% …

Yes, I did skip two days of playing games. I was busy! Mainly with resurrecting the dead. But then I came back… to Tony. Again. Can’t stay away. So I thought I’d have a crack the Uber Goals again, and managed the Hardcore one without a problem. I haven’t attempted the Rigger one at all yet, and the Pro one? Not looking forward to trying that again. It was hard! Also completed some more street goals and improved a few …

So about this “I’m done with the game now” post last night. It was clearly a lie, wasn’t it? Completed Pro in two more Classic Goals runs, Am in a third, and one Am and one Pro for the Pac-Man-meets-Tony-Hawk “Hawk-man” runs. Not a chance in hell I’ll get Sick for any of the Classic or Hawk-man goals. They’re clearly not possible.

OK. I think after today’s session I’m “done” with this now. I’ll no doubt come back to improve on some of the bits I’ve only got Am on, or for a bit of a skate for fun. Or maybe I’ll play online a bit. But I’ve done all the story goals in all the storylines, most of the skate spots, impressed all the pros and all sorts of other things. I’ve not done many “classic” goals though, I’ve just realised, …

I thought the game was about to take a turn for the crap when I realised Bam Margera was in it. His sections in “The Tony Hawk Dark Days Trilogy” (that’s THUG, THUG 2 and THAW to you) were the least Tony Hawk-y and, generally, crap. I mean, I love Bam and all, but he added too much Jackass to the game. Thankfully, his story was mostly about outdoing him with proper skating and climbing stuff, rather than the usual …

Yeah, I know I completed it earlier, but there’s still quite a bit to do. Not least, almost all of the Rigger storyline. Which is what I spent most of my time on. It seems very hand-holdy. You’re told exactly what to rig or mod, and how. Yeah, you’ve a bit of freedom over adding other bits, but I’m yet to find a reason to do that. Also completed a few more Street challenges that I’d missed, and now my …

With more stats built up (everything bar wallride and spin), I had another go at Mike V’s huge gap thing – and managed it first time. Ditto for the few gaps he asked me to nail afterwards too. That opened up a load more of stuff in the Hardcore story. Completed all of Dustin’s “missions”, most of which involved “skate checking” – punching people as I skated round. I then did a few Classic goals, and went off to build …

I’ve given up on trying to clear the gap that Mike V wants me to do (for now), and have instead moved back to the Pro storyline until my stats have increased a bit. I’ve bumped into another Pro skater and his photographer, and we took loads of photos of me doing stuff. He taught me how to “nail the manual” too, which is really quite hard. I then went off for a bit and completed some spot street challenges …

Didn’t play for all that long today, but I did finish off Arto’s chapter with the last of his video clips and the final of the Tri-City comp. That netted me a few more achievements. I then went back to Mike V’s chapter (he does the hardcore stuff, dontchaknow), and completed a few things. I’m totally stuck now though, as I have to jump a huuuuuuge gap, and there’s no way in hell I can make it.

Eric is in it. Yeah, he looks and sounds different, but he’s still Eric. Eric, your rival in THUG and THUG2. And your rival here too. Pah. How annoying. But I beat him in a competition (after beating him in a previous one, which he’d rigged so he won anyway), so that was OK. Took part in lots of video shoots for Arto too, and learned how to Nail the Grab from Bob Burnquist. Explored the city a bit, and …

Played for a little bit more this evening. I’m mainly concentrating on the “Pro” story at the moment (although I’m not very far in). I did get an achievement for completing a chapter, though. It seems you do build up your stats in the same way as Project 8, so I might do that next time I play. It does seem very hard otherwise, and I can’t seem to do reverts at all, which leads me to believe I have …

With Eternal Sonata now complete, I started something else. I love Tony Hawk games. If you’re a long-time reader of this gaming diary, you’d know this. I went through pretty much every single available TH game, even the crap Game Boy Colour ones, a couple of years ago. It was amazing. Anyway. This version seems to have taken a step away from the fantastic (and complete return to form) Tony Hawk’s Project 8, instead looking a bit more like Tony …