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 …
So it would seem that in order to complete the game, you just have to do X many goals, and then impress Y many pros, then do the final video with the pros in. So I did! Hurrah! I still have most of the Rigger stuff to go, and loads more street challenges, but the actual Story is now complete, and I got the credits and stuff. So an excellent game by all accounts. I’d sit it a little behind …
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 …
Oh my! First skate. and now this! Amazing! Firstly, let me just say one thing: TONY HAWK AND SKATE ARE NOT THE SAME TYPE OF GAME. It really annoys me when people say that TH games are redundant now that skate. is here, and it does everything TH games should have done long ago. This is not true. Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground is, like all TH games, an arcade game. skate. is a simulation. Like how Gran Turismo isn’t Outrun …
I think I’ve pretty much exhausted this now. I’ve cleaned up on missions and ranch pieces, done all the BMX “missions”, found all the pros and impressed them, and completed a pile of tramp money challenges and graffiti challenges only to find they never actually end. I’ve done all the Sponsor Challenges too, but it still shows only 40/70 done, even though all my stats are full and no shop has any challenges left to offer. Bizarre. Then, I went …
Into the Casino I went, and collected loads of skate pieces and chips, before making the mad dash back to the ranch avoiding the police. Which was really easy. I’m convinced it was bloody hard last time, but obviously not. Either that or I have Mad Sk8 Skillz now. And that was it. Green Pipes Point was mine (or rather, Iggy’s), and the credits rolled. Hurrahs!
Well, the BMX bit was easy. Like, really easy. In fact, I did it by accident. My memory clear isn’t right. Anyway, with that out of the way, and Boone rescued from the drainage pipe he was stuck in, it was off round all the locations to convince all the pro skaters to be in my video. A couple of them were a pain (like the Collect the Shoes one), but nothing too difficult. Off to the Casino next!
Finished off the Oil Rig by collecting some more bits for the skate park, and then skated back to the park myself to fix the crane with my spray can. No, really. After that, it was back off to Downtown to try and join the Black Widowz, which involved getting myself a tattoo, then spending aaaaaages trying the “manual through the million flags” challenge (which was really hard as I couldn’t keep up my momentum, until I realised I could …
Still working through Story Mode on this. It seems a lot easier than I recall, but then, I haven’t reached the bloody hard biking bit yet. I’m dreading that, as I’m sure I almost exploded with actual rage last time. So today, I walked the Vans competition, got Iggy locked up, joined Skate Club (the first rule about Skate Club, is you don’t talk about Skate Club), impressed Tony Alva, wrecked the Big Wheel, and reached the Oil Rig via …
Seeing as I’ve run out of Tony Hawk games, and the 360 version of this arrived last week having been bought for peanuts, so I’ve decided to play it. Yes, I’ve got (and completed) the Xbox version already, but that was over a year ago and I can’t wait until Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground which is supposedly out later this year. Anyway. So I’ve reached Vans, which (IIRC) is about a third of the way through the game. I’ve yet …