Prove yourself in new Tony Hawk title

by Ross Miller { May 14th 2007 at 2:45PM }

Has your appetite for new-gen skateboarding games not been whetted by clips from Electronic Arts' Skate? Activision has just sent out a press release unveiling the latest Tony Hawk game, entitled Proving Ground.

New features with full-featured editing tools and visual effects for creating "epic skate videos," a customizable Skate Lounge where you and friends can skate around together, and seamless single player and online integration. There will be skateable terrain altering and more Nail-the-Trick moves.

Proving Ground is slated for release later this fall for Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PS2 and Nintendo DS. GamePro is dedicated their next issue to the game. Has anyone already received their copy of the issue in the mail?

Gallery: Tony Hawk's Proving Ground

[Via Xbox 360 Fanboy]

Tags: never soft, NeverSoft, proving ground, ProvingGround, skateboarding, tony hawk, TonyHawk

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

sheppy @ May 14th 2007 2:49PM

"the addition of skater classes"

I am sooo being a Dragoon. They gotta have the BEST ollie stats.

sheppy @ May 14th 2007 2:52PM

I cast the Madtriks than makes the police fall down?

...I'm the only one enjoying this little blurb, I think...

Jack of No Trades @ May 14th 2007 2:58PM

I would rather enchant my skateshoes with superspeed so I can do a 1,000,000 kickflip in one ollie.

Ken @ May 14th 2007 3:06PM

Anything I say here will not match what Jack or sheppy said.

So I bow down quietly.

Jake @ May 14th 2007 3:06PM

sheppy,

That's fine if all you want to do is ollie and do alchemy all the time. I like choosing a more balanced character, like a Dark Elf, and spread the stats around. Then you can conjure up a midget troll, then use feather to jump it. Much more satisfying than running around jumping everything.

I am so burnt out on the Tony Hawk formula. I don't know what they need to do for me to become interested in it again, but they need to change it considerably. Maybe some battle racing? Perhaps some wicked graphic bone breaks? DOA style female characters? Some 3rd person shooter elements? Nintendo characters? I can keep going, but should probably just quit now.

Tavis @ May 14th 2007 3:08PM

Hope they put skater customization back in... lamest gimp ever in Project 8.

Next-Gen-Gamer @ May 14th 2007 3:23PM

Check It: More info on the game.
http://heroestv.com/blog/deceit/2007/05/14/tony-hawks-proving-ground-announced/

IslandLife @ May 14th 2007 3:28PM

"GamePro is dedicated their next issue to the game. Has anyone already received their copy of the issue in the mail?"

Wow, you mean people actually pay for that awfully designed magazine.

ScreamingSkull @ May 14th 2007 3:32PM

I think EA is going to be nailing the coffin shut on this series, I used to love these games but there just hasn't been a big enough leap in... something about them for me to become a "madden-whore" buyer.

^FourthDimensionGod^ @ May 14th 2007 3:47PM

i used to like Gamepro when their magazine used to have 2-3 times more pages than what they have now.

sheppy @ May 14th 2007 3:53PM

Jake, I would normally be all about the drow but you forget, their enchantments, armor, weapons, spells, and even vision dramatically weaken when on the surface. Last thing I want when I'm grinding some telephone wires is the board to lose it's enchantment, snap in half, and send me and my dark elf danglies into a power wire. Ouch.

I would normally invest in a drow rogue but don't you WANT people to see you pulling off the sick tricks? I suppose I could just double up and have a rogue but have him cast faerie fire on himself. That way everybody just sees a glowing, burning blue outline doing the mad tricks. Also, with the drow, levitate is an innate race ability so at that point, who would need skills in ollie?

And yes, I just went from FF references to D&D skillsets. Just be glad no company will let me near their fighting games.

serotoninzero @ May 15th 2007 1:30AM

I used to love THPS. I'll end up giving it a shot like I do with everyone, but we're not getting our hopes up. I'm going to give skate. a shot too since maybe it's traveling in the right direction.

Jake @ May 14th 2007 4:09PM

sheppy,

I understand your concerns. But, I would use a Dark Elf from the Morrowinds region. Resistance to daylight wouldn't be an issue.

JBGUY2K @ May 14th 2007 4:20PM

I'm surprised that Gamepro is still around, and feel sorry for the duped kids reading the stuff.

As for the whole franchise... I think I'll stick to pro skater 3, best one IMO. From there on, it went downhill.

Richard DeV @ May 14th 2007 4:33PM

Its kind of a joke that they STILL arent making a fully(and only) "next-gen" game since this is on PS2 and wii. They need to make a 360/PS3 exclusive to get me excited about this series. The last two games on 360 were a joke and looked like garbage and played mediocre. wtf? they need to re-do themselves like how they did with THPS4 on PS2. That game was so good.

Norm @ May 14th 2007 4:39PM

WOW! SKATING IN THE RAIN!

way to add a real life feature that makes me not want to skate at all.

James @ May 14th 2007 4:43PM

Nothing but a nice bit of competition to break their balls a bit.

rinks @ May 14th 2007 5:02PM

Yeah, I'm totally with 15 on this one. Why do we have to keep dumbing down the games to run on a fracking 80 year old console. Install base is important, sure, but more people will upgrade when they have to finally upgrade to play the games. I'm sick of lowest-common denominator crap. Needs to be more than an HD coat of paint.

Ninegauger @ May 14th 2007 4:58PM

I think they should make sure it runs smooth this time... and more robust skater creation tools would be nice.

ConstyXIV @ May 14th 2007 5:18PM

@19 rinks:
And the Wii needs more than waggle-enhanced PS2 ports.
Suck it up.

Abscissa @ May 14th 2007 5:37PM

What? PS2 but not XBox 1? Let's see, it's a 360/PS3/Wii-era game, and the one last-gen system they port it to is the *least* powerful of that generation? (yea, yea, I know, PS2 biggest market share, MS hates XBox 1, yadda yadda. But it still just strikes me as odd.)

Not like I really care, though. After the pile of ass that was Project 8 (and this is coming from someone who actually enjoyed all of the other Hawk games, minus THPS3), I wouldn't have given this one a chance anyway.

I've also gotten tired of Neversoft overstating their features. One seamless, loadless, 80's-themed world in American Wasteland? Umm, sort of, but not quite. Get to drag around the ramps and other objects in Project 8? Not unless you count a half-assed level-editor on couple of missions.

I'm actually more interested in EA's Skate, and I don't even like EA!

ConstyXIV @ May 14th 2007 5:59PM

@21 Abscissa:
Judging by my Xbox release list, I believe that MS has simply stopped rubber-stamping Xbox1 games, like they also stopped producing Xboxes.
If you happen to be a DS-toting person, American Sk8land and Downhill Jam were actually pretty good (Sk8land being in Metacritic's DS top 20). Sk8land was obviously based off Wasteland (sorta). It almost feels like the old PS1 games again. The cel-shadedness is a bit jarring at first, but that's about the only big shock. They even almost got the seamless part it's console brother failed at (.5 second loading between areas)

Minty Fresh @ May 14th 2007 7:08PM

My money is on Skate this year. They're really changing the formula. A more realistic skating game. Some of these additions for Proving Ground sound cool, but it's really just gonna be the same old Tony Hawk underneath I bet. Grinding 300 feet, on telephone wire 50 feet in the air, then transferring into a giant pizza slice, etc., etc., etc. I'm getting tired of the "over the top" antics of the Tony Hawk series.....I welcome the much more realistic take on skating that Skate will bring.

dphizzle @ May 14th 2007 8:22PM

when is road rash coming back ?

Tom Hayden @ May 14th 2007 8:40PM

I heard one of the new nail - the -trick moves is Jumping the Shark

Charron @ May 14th 2007 9:07PM

sheppy, I think you have stumbled upon today's Awesome Idea. Congrats.

mike @ May 14th 2007 9:55PM

Im looking forward to this. I found the nail a trick move terrible the first time I played P8, but once I figured it out, it was so easy to do all the NTT challenges. + it really helps in getting a super high score. I care nothing for the video feature tho. Everyon1 is a pro in the tony hawks games so who cares about watching some1 else. + I have my capture card if I really need to make videos.

I would take TH any day over skate because its unrealistic fun, the way games should be, not a virtual simulation.