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Developer(s)	Neversoft
Publisher(s)	Activision Aspyr (PC Version)
Release date(s)	October 18, 2005 (PS2, Xbox, GameCube) November 22, 2005 (Xbox 360) February 7, 2006 (PC)
Genre(s)	Extreme Sports
Mode(s)	Single player, multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen (T) PEGI: 16+
Platform(s)	PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, PC
Media	1 GameCube optical disk or PS2/Xbox/Xbox 360 DVD-ROM

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is a video game that has been released for the PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube and PC. The game was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision. The PC version of the game was ported/published by Aspyr Media, Inc. Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is the first Tony Hawk game to support Xbox Live; online play was previously limited to the PlayStation 2 and PC.

American Wasteland is the sequel to Tony Hawk's Underground 2, one of the many in the popular Tony Hawk's Series. The game was released on October 18, 2005 for PS2, Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube. It was a launch title (of sorts) for the Xbox 360 and was released simultaneously with the console on November 22, 2005.

The Nintendo DS version of this game, Tony Hawk's American Sk8land, features Wi-Fi capabilities. It is the first third-party DS game to have online support.

[edit] Features

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is the first game in the Tony Hawk franchise that allowed players to play in one large streaming level. In the September 2005 edition of Game Informer Magazine, a map was shown displaying THAW's Los Angeles with an insert of an overhead view of the Boston stage from Tony Hawk's Underground 2 for comparison. The Boston level appeared to be about three quarters the size of one THAW area, with the obvious exceptions of the "Vans Skatepark" and "Casino" areas. In addition, this map also revealed the locations in the game:

• Oil rig (Level originally appeared exclusively for Xbox in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 as a bonus level)
• Santa Monica
• Beverly Hills
• Skate Ranch
• Hollywood
• Downtown Los Angeles
• Vans Skatepark
• East Los Angeles
• Casino (Originally appeared as Las Vegas in Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix)

Also, the Classic Mode, which allows you to complete a series of goals in certain levels within a two-minute time limit, has returned, with the following levels:

• Downtown Minneapolis from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
• Santa Cruz from Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix
• Mall from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
• Chicago from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
• Kyoto from Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix
• The Ruins from Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix
• Atlanta from Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix (Collector's Edition)
• Marseilles from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (Collector's Edition)

[edit] Story Mode

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland takes place in Los Angeles and runs through various other parts close to Los Angeles such as Santa Monica. Wasteland starts out with your skater getting on a bus where you are soon greeted and hugged by an over enthusiastic blond girl, who asks you why you're going to Los Angeles, her reason is to be an actress and yours is to get away from your abusive father and your broken relationship with your girlfriend. You arrive in Los Angeles, only to be mugged by two skaters who steal your stuff. After you get back to your feet, you meet a girl named Mindy who decides to be friendly and help you out around the city. She tells you to get some new clothes as to not appear like a "country bumpkin" and to get a new hairstyle, your character arrives with just enough money to get what you need.

She later takes you to meet Boone, Murphy, and Useless Dave who are doubtful at first of your skating skills until you have the chance to show off. After you do this, they take you up to meet Iggy who introduces you to the "American Wasteland" which is, at that point, a barren garbage dump with only a few places to skate. You soon are asked to complete somewhat strange requests, such as take a dinosaur head off a building as an attack on protesters. Mindy then realizes that they should use the dinosaur head and that's where the story takes off. You then take various items from around Los Angeles and other areas and bring them to the Wasteland. You meet various pro skaters such as Tony Hawk and Tony Alva whom are supportive of your transforming the area since your skating skills live up beyond their expectations.

At the end of the game, the American Wasteland is complete with various items such as a snake run, a crane, and the world famous Hollywood sign reading "Wasteland" and your skater has the respect of all the pro skaters for creating an amazing place to skate.

[edit] Characters

• You (voice of Will Friedle)
• Mindy (voice of Cree Summer)
• Iggy
• Boone
• Murphy
• Useless Dave
• Duane
• Ian
• Mega
• Jeb
• Cholo
• Jorje
• Muton
• Random Dude

[edit] Pro Skaters/BMXers

[edit] Skateboarders

• Tony Hawk
• Tony Alva
• Paul Rodriguez
• Stevie Williams
• Mike Vallely
• Bob Burnquist
• Daewon Song
• Bam Margera
• Ryan Sheckler
• Rodney Mullen
• Andrew Reynolds
• Tony Trujillo
• Jason Ellis (After completing story mode.)

[edit] BMXers

• Rick Thorne
• Mat Hoffman

[edit] Secret characters

Clear Story Mode (Easy)

• Mindy
• Robot Tony

Clear Story Mode (Normal)

• Lil' Jon (rapper)
• Iggy
• Jason Ellis

Clear Story Mode (Hard/Sick)

• Jimbo
• Mega
• Murphy

Clear Classic Mode (Normal)

• Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day vocalist/guitarist)
• Boone

Clear Classic Mode (Sick/Hard)

• Mat Hoffman
• Useless Dave

Achieve 100% in Story Mode

• Baller
• Welder
• Camera Guy
• Cholo

Achieve 100% in Classic Mode

• Dogtown Guy #2
• Graffiti Guy
• Hardhat Guy
• Master Zen

Clear all Skate Ranch missions

• Barber
• Carnival Guy
• Dogtown Guy #1
• French Guy

Clear all Gaps

• Boone In Briefs
• Oil Rig Worker
• Performer
• Policeman

[edit] Trivia

• This is the first Tony Hawk game to mention pervious titles like Tony Hawk Underground, Tony Hawk Underground 2 and Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3.
• The man who is supposedly Iggy is a real resemblance character of Jay Adams. Some characters' names are references to real people, such as Ben Whofleck (Ben Affleck) and Ashlee Sampson (Ashlee Simpson).
• Many of the names in the game are in reference to key heads of the hardcore/punk movement of the 80's; Boone (D. Boone - The Minutemen), Ian (Ian Mackaye - Minor Threat), Iggy (Iggy Pop - The Stooges), Murphy (Emmet Jefferson "Patrick" Murphy III - Dinosaur Jr)
• In the Oil Rig area, Mega has a pet shark named Fonzi, in reference to the term "jumping the shark." Happy Day introduced the term when Fonzie jumped over a shark.
• Some of the pro skaters stances are incorrect, such as Tony Alva (Regular), Andrew Reynolds (Regular), Tony Trujillo (Regular), and Ryan Sheckler (Regular).
• Skate Club and Project Wasteland are references to Fight Club and Project Mayhem in the book and movie Fight Club.
• The soundtrack cover pays homage to The Clash's album cover for London Calling, which in turn is an homage to a self-titled Elvis Presley album. The American Wasteland Soundtrack cover is a young man smashing a skateboard against the ground, instead of a guitar in the London Calling cover.
• The programmers of the game kept their "No Loading Screens" promise by utilizing city to city tunnels that acted as loaders. While going through these tunnels you will hit some lag spots and the game will lag a little. That is the game loading the next area.
• It is the first Tony Hawk game in which you do not have a choice in Gender during Story Mode. You can only play as a male, due to the ending scene, however in other modes you may play as a Female.
• In the Metro Rail passageway between Downtown and Hollywood, and the parking garage passageway between Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, the game screen will suddenly turn into a slow-motion security camera. These cameras are a cover-up for the game having to load between areas of the city.
• While skating towards the next area in one of the passageways, try to refrain from doing tricks and skate relatively quickly. You'll notice that you are skating towards nothing but a wall. But then, what somewhat resembles a garage door quickly opens and the next level is visible. This is definetely a cover-up to keep the "No Loading Screens" promise.
• When you create a graphic in the game, you will see the skater flipping the board in his hands. This is a cover-up for the graphics menu loading. Therefore, the game creators can keep the promise of "No Loading Screens." You can also see a star in the upper right hand corner.
• In Santa Monica if you look around closely you will find a graffiti tag saying "Santa Monica" in side a cross this is a reference to the dog town and z-boy graffiti which can be seen in the documentary featuring Tony Alva (Dogtown and Z-Boys) also there is another tag saying "locals only" this is another reference to the same documentary there is also a film based on this documentary Lords of Dogtown
• The man who blows up the downtown entrance is a reference to the movie Falling Down starring Michael Douglas, in which he does the same thing.
• The game makes many referances to Homestar Runner cartoons in the Vans Skatepark. For example if you get electrocuted at the electricity box a message on the screen might say "Your Head Asplode!" Also, if you launch up into the rafters, you might get the message "Arrowed", "MSG'D", "Children'd", or "Late 360 Shove-It to boneless'd"
• One of Daewon Song's special tricks, the Daewon Chop, shows Daewon going up a quarter pipe and Karate chopping the Neversoft eye.
• The Xbox 360 version of the game had rudimentary graphical updates if any, and when up close to some of the characters in the game, it is said to look worse then the last-gen versions of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
• The "Van Zant" last name could possibly be a homage to the former Lynyrd Skynyrd lead singer, Ronnie Van Zant.

[edit] Soundtrack

• 7 Seconds - "We're Gonna Fight"
• Alkaline Trio -" Wash Away" (TSOL cover)
• An Endless Sporadic - "Sun of Pearl"
• Bad Religion - "We're Only Gonna Die"
• Black Flag - "Rise Above"
• The Bled - "House of Suffering" (Bad Brains cover)
• Bloc Party - "Like Eating Glass" (Tony Hawk mix)
• Bobot Adrenaline - "Penalty Box"
• The Bravery - "Unconditional"
• Breakestra - "Champ"
• The Casualties - "Get Off My Back"
• Circle Jerks - "Wild in the Streets"
• Dead Kennedys - "California Über Alles" (THAW trailer and intro song)
• Death from Above 1979 - "Little Girl"
• Del tha Funkee Homosapien (f/ Hieroglyphics) - "Burnt"
• D.R.I. - "Couch Slouch"
• The Doors - "Peace Frog"
• Dropkick Murphys - "Who Is Who" (The Adolescents cover)
• El-P - "Jukie Skate Rock"
• Emanuel - "Search and Destroy" (The Stooges cover)
• The Faint - "I Disappear"
• Fall Out Boy - "Start Today" (Gorilla Biscuits cover)
• Fatlip - "What's Up Fatlip"
• Felix da Housecat - "Everyone is Someone in LA"
• Frank Black - "Los Angeles"
• From Autumn to Ashes - "Let's Have a War" (Fear cover)
• The God Awfuls - "Watch it Fall"
• Good Riddance - "30 Day Wonder"
• Green Day - "Holiday"
• High on Fire - "Devilution"
• Hot Snakes - "Time to Escape" (Government Issue cover)
• Lair of the Minotaur - "Warlord"
• Mastodon - "Iron Tusk"
• Mike V. and the Rats - "Vendetta"
• Molemen (f/ Aesop Rock, Slug and MF DOOM) - "Put Your Quarter Up"
• Mötley Crüe - "Live Wire"
• My Chemical Romance - "Astro Zombies" (The Misfits cover)
• Nassim - "Rawhide"
• The Network - "Teenagers From Mars" (The Misfits cover)
• Oingo Boingo - "Who Do You Want to Be"
• Pest - "Duke Kerb Crawler"
• Pig Destroyer - "Gravedancer"
• Prefuse 73 - "The End of Biters" (Listed as "One Word Extinguisher" in-game)
• Public Enemy (f/ Ice Cube and Big Daddy Kane) - "Burn Hollywood Burn"
• Rise Against - "Fix Me" (Black Flag cover)
• The Riverboat Gamblers - "Hey! Hey! Hey!"
• Rob Sonic - "Sniper Picnic"
• Saves the Day - "Sonic Reducer" (The Dead Boys cover)
• Scissor Sisters - "Filthy/Gorgeous"
• Senses Fail - "Institutionalized" (Suicidal Tendencies cover)
• Sham 69 - "Borstal Breakout"
• SNFU - "Better Homes and Gardens"
• Spirit Caravan - "Dove-Tongued Aggressor"
• Strike Anywhere - "Question the Answer"
• Taking Back Sunday - "Suburban Home/I Like Food" (The Descendents covers)
• Thrice - "Image of the Invisible"
• Thrice - "Seeing Red/Screaming at a Wall" (Minor Threat covers)
• The Thunderlords - "I Like Dirt"
• Thursday - "Ever Fallen in Love?" (The Buzzcocks cover)
• Tommy Guerrero - "Organism"
• Ungh! - "Skate Afrikkana"
• USSR - "Live Near Death"
• Venom - "Black Metal"

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Tony Hawk's American Wasteland at IGN
• Tony Hawk's American Wasteland at MobyGames
• Tony hawk's Playstation 2 Tournament site, expanding fast. Prizes, videos, etc.
• THPS/THAW Fansite dedicated to information on the series.
• THLiVE.NET, THAW online community site, videos, challenges, tournaments, online teams