Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
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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 extreme sports game 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, American Sk8land features Wi-Fi capabilities, being the first third-party game to have online support.
Features
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 excusively 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)
- 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 of THAW only)
- Marseilles from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (Collector's Edition of THAW only)
Story Mode
In THUG1, you were a rookie trying to make it as a pro.In THUG2, which essentially carried on from THUG1, you were a pro-skater competing in a competition between teams led by Tony Hawk & Bam Margera.
In THAW, set in a different universe where the previous adventures are just popular games, you're creating/fixing up Iggy's Skate Ranch. As the story progresses, you collect many items for the ranch, and take part in Tony Hawk's AmJam.
Characters
- Mindy
- Iggy
- Boone
- Murphy
- Useless Dave
- Gregorey
- Ian
- Mega
- Joe Skater
- Small Fry
- House slacka
- Joey B
Pro Skaters/BMXers
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 (through cheat)
BMXers
Secret characters
Clear Story Mode (Easy)- Lil' Jon (rapper)
- Iggy
- Jason Ellis
Clear Story Mode (Normal)
- Mindy
- Robo Tony
- Jimbo
- Mega
- Murphy
- Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day band member)
- Boone
- Matt Hoffman
- Dave
- Baller
- Welder
- Camera Guy
- Chloe
- Barber
- Carnival Guy
- Downtown Guy
- French Guy
Trivia
- Some characters' names are references to real people, such as Ben Whofleck (Ben Affleck) and Ashley Samsons (Ashlee Simpson).
- In the Oil Rig area, Mega has a pet shark named Fonzi, in reference to the the term "jumping the shark."
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"
- Bloc Party-"Like Eating Glass" (Tony Hawk mix)
- Bobot Adrenaline-"Penalty Box"
- Breakestra-"Champ"
- Circle Jerks-"Wild in the Streets"
- Dead Kennedys-"California Über Alles" (THAW trailer song)
- Death from Above 1979-"Little Girl"
- Del Tha Funkee Homosapien-"Burnt"
- D.R.I.-"Couch Slouch"
- Dropkick Murphys-"Who Is Who" (The Adolescents cover)
- El-P-"Jukie Skate Rock"
- Emanuel-"Search and Destroy" (The Stooges cover)
- 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)
- 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"
- Oingo Boingo-"Who Do You Want to Be"
- Pest-"Duke Kerb Crawler"
- Pig Destroyer-"Gravedancer"
- Prefuse 73-"One Word Extinguisher"
- Public Enemy-"Burn Hollywood Burn"
- Rise Against-"Fix Me" (Black Flag cover)
- 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)
- The Bled-"House of Suffering" (Bad Brains cover)
- The Bravery-"Unconditional"
- The Casualties-"Get Off My Back"
- The Doors-"Peace Frog"
- The Faint-"I Disappear"
- The God Awfuls-"Watch it Fall"
- The Network-"Teenagers From Mars" (The Misfits cover)
- The Riverboat Gamblers-"Hey! Hey! Hey!"
- The Thunderlords-"I Like Dirt"
- Thrice-"Image of the Invisible"
- Thrice-"Seeing Red/Screaming at a Wall" (Minor Threat covers)
- Thursday-"Ever Fallen in Love?" (The Buzzcocks cover)
- Tommy Guerrero-"Organism"
- Ungh!-"Skate Afrikkana"
- USSR-"Live Near Death"
- Venom-"Black Metal"
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