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Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground

The first of many reviews for Tony Hawk’s: Proving Ground on Nintendo DS is out. IGN gave it an 8/10! Hopefully the rest of the reviews will be this good to give the game a high overall ranking, but got to remember that we can’t make everyone happy, we try, but sometimes there those that have something negative to say. I remember when the Spidey 3 DS reviews were out we got some really good scores, but then with one or two average scores the overall ranking of the game decreased, right now the current ranking is a 79% for that title. Not to bad but not too good either…

Anyways, I really had a blast working on this game, creating the various goals and skate lines. In terms of what I contributed to the game I manily did level design and goal designs.

Overall, I pretty much spent most of my time on Baltimore Harbor, creating the level geometry and goals. My favorite goal of that level that I made, is the one that requires you to scare off the seagulls, when you play the game you’ll know what I am talking about. Moving on, all the pretty visuals in levels were done by the artists on the project, those guys did an awesome job! I also did some work on the Custom Skate Park level as well as FDR skate park. The other levels in the game include Philly Slums, DC Monuments, DC Museums, and Lansdowne Skate Park. All of the levels look really cool and someof the goals in those levels are crazy with long grind lines and insane score challenges!

Overall it’s pretty much inline with the console version from Neversoft in terms of levels and some Pro Skater apperances, but scaled down for the DS, but don’t let the small size fool you. the gameplay and the goals are quite fun and at times addicting.

So if you got a DS and are a fan of Tony Hawk games then get this title, and if your not really a fan series I am still sure you will have some fun with the game as well.

By the way here is a small clip I found on youtube of the game. Not sure who is playing but they had a good run but bailed in the end not once but twice… if your wondering what level this it is DC Monuments. Enjoy…