Customer Reviews
All good things come to those who skate - By: G. Thomas, 21 Apr 2008 
It's been a good few years since I last hopped on a deck & ground my way around Alcatraz Island collecting S.K.A.T.E, ollie-ing over prison warders & getting "big air". Frankly I thought those joyful days were over.
Circumstances continue to surprise me.
Firstly I won a PS3in a competition where I actually wanted to win the car or holiday. Secondly I spied a pre-owned copy of "Project 8"in a well known DVD rental shop. A moment of weakness & all the pieces came together.
The old magic is still there.
From my embarassingly shaky startin the tutorial mode, when I suddenly realised my fingers had forgotten how to pull off a 3 trick combo, I gradually improved & progressed into the first true game area & last night opened the final area of the game. The learning curve is perfect. From the initial horror of just trying to land a flip without bailing to the sublime experience of racking up my first 150,000 pt combo this game has been an absolute delight. You learn & improve without ever being conciously aware that you are.
Every aspect of the game is so much fun. Just sit back & experience the game, don't push yourself too hard & I promise you'll be skating like a proin no time. Complete one of the hundreds of amusing mission goals or just free-skate for your own enjoyment. There is never a point when you have nothing to do. The huge next-gen enviroments are fantastically realised & you do find yourself wondering just how to reach that next roof or if you can grind all around that massive rail without ever feeling that the game is pushing you into it.
This is classic Tony Hawk gaming & it's better than ever. I also love the fact that, on top of all the new challenges, every area has one NPC who opens all the familiar "classic" goals from the first 4 Tony Hawk's games.
I'm never going to be a THP8 elite player but I don't care. "Sick" scores are the next challenge I have to face & also finishing off all those spot challenges.
So much about this game is so much fun that I can do little else but strongly urge you to buy it. Don't listen to the "instant gratification crowd", this game is not "hard" or "tricky" butin fact is perfectly paced & intelligently constructed.......it's a thoroughly rewarding experience & as near perfect as I could have ever possibly imagined.
Nice but difficult - By: N. Cooper, 22 Jun 2007 
I loved the earlier Tony Hawks series on PS2 & havent picked one up since playing 3 so I got this when I first brought my PS3. Graphics were great looking & the initial levels were fun to do.
Whilst this game is fun, for me the further you went on the more impossible it got to complete tasks I felt like I need another 2 hands just to complete some of the stuff.
If you have evolved with this series then this game is ideal for you but someone who cant string together 100,000 point combos are going to struggle.
Fun while it lasted though
good but a few downsides - By: yellams, 31 May 2007 
i have a lot of the tony hawks series & really enjoy playing them. i'm glad we dont have to ride aroundin a wheelchair or rubbish like that however i miss the bmx (was that tony hawks?!) the worst thing however is no online play - it does have 2 player but if you only have 1 remote or you dont have any brothers/sisters this game can get tedious playing solo constatly. i'd love to see this game with online play - it does on the 360 so why not the more recent "better, more powerful console"
Tricky to master, but a welcome return to form - By: The Happy Space Invader, 10 May 2007 This game has had some lukewarm reviewsin the gaming press. One of the comments that almost put me off buying it was a complaint about choppy framerates. After witnessing thisin F.E.A.R. & other poor Xbox-to-PS3 conversions, I was expecting the worst.
Let me reassure you right now that the only time the framerate goes a bit wobbly is when you move from one major area to another, i.e. when new level data is being streamed off the disc. Even then, it only lasts about 2 seconds, & many times it doesn't happen at all. While I have been skating around & pulling tricksin the many different game missions, I haven't seen any slowdown at all.
With that out of the way, the rest of the game is the same tricky-to-master skateboarding game you either love or hate. Personally, I stopped playing the Tony Hawks games once they started moving away from the skateboarding into Jackass territory. Project 8 is a welcome return to the business of skateboarding around realistic environments, performing ankle-twisting tricks. The controls are relatively easy to master although sometimes, for accuracy's sake, you might want to use the D-Pad instead of the rather vague left analogue stick. One excellent feature is "Nail the trick"in which you can click both analogue sticks down whilstin the air, sending the game into a slow-motion close up of your feet on the skateboard. At this point, you use the analogue sticks to move your feet, thereby kick-flipping the board under your feet. You then have to make sure your feet are lined back up as the grip tape side of the board rights itself, & this can take some practice, but it's well worth the effort.
The graphics are very impressive & the soundtrack has a reasonable amount of variety (as long as you like Thrash Metal, Hip-Hop or Punk). That said, I really think you have to be a skateboard/snowboard fan to enjoy this.
Superb ! - By: S. Frost, 27 Apr 2007 This game is amazing, the graphics are jst incredible.
In my opininion the best feature of the game is being able to slow down time & nail a trick perfectly, jst incredible.
Nice too see that they have taken it back to basics (of sort) compared to the previous 2 or 3 games.
Overall, superb, worth the money & the wait.
