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Tony Hawk's American Wasteland for PlayStation 2
Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland for the PlayStation 2 is a skateboarding game in which you arrive in Los Angeles as a new skater. You ride through different connected city districts, meet other skaters and complete objectives to advance. The story gradually has you practice new moves. You therefore learn the city both as a mission setting and as a collection of possible lines for your own trick scores.
The fundamentals revolve around connecting jumps, grinds, manuals and other moves. You seek a route along edges, rails and obstacles and try to maintain your balance as long as your combo continues. Stopping in time remains important: a fall makes a good sequence worthless. You can also step off your skateboard and pick up a BMX bike at various locations, with its own collection of moves and objectives.
Part of your progression involves building a skatepark using components from the city. Outside the story, you can attempt classic objectives in timed runs, ride freely or create your own skaters and parks. Locally, two players can compete on a split screen. The PlayStation 2 edition therefore focuses on solo exploration and competition with someone in the same room.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland came out for the PlayStation 2 in 2005, developed by Neversoft and published by Activision. It followed Underground 2 and was the seventh main installment the studio had made in as many years. The familiar system of long trick combinations remained central, while the story world once again took a different form.
The different parts of Los Angeles were linked by connecting passages. Neversoft wanted this to give the skating areas more cohesion than a series of entirely separate locations. Progression began with learning moves and developed around encounters with other skaters. Collecting components for your own skating spot gave different objectives a shared destination. BMX bikes expanded the available activities without replacing skateboarding controls as the series' foundation.
A separate classic mode meanwhile retained the objectives and short runs of earlier Pro Skater installments. The more extensive story thus sat alongside a more immediate challenge to score and collect within a time limit. Creating your own skaters and parks also returned. The PlayStation 2 version offered local split-screen competition. American Wasteland thus follows Underground's story-focused development, with Los Angeles and the addition of BMX as its own distinguishing features.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 spreads its World Destruction Tour across separate cities and different characters. American Wasteland keeps its story in connected parts of Los Angeles and has you learn moves as a new skater. Both offer a classic mode, while American Wasteland also adds BMX bikes to the activities.
Tony Hawk’s Underground also follows a custom skater within a story and lets you step off your board. American Wasteland builds on that idea with Los Angeles as a cohesive environment and a skatepark you help build. Their similarity lies in personal progression; the objectives, setting and additional cycling activities differ.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 has you achieve score targets and collect items in short runs. American Wasteland offers that classic approach alongside a larger story with freely accessible objectives. The combo foundations remain familiar, but here you can also move on foot and ride a BMX when you choose that activity.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 lets you explore an environment freely before starting individual objectives. American Wasteland shares that exploration of an area, but connects progression more explicitly with a story in Los Angeles. Collecting skatepark components and BMX activities also give you other reasons to revisit places.
Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure moves the familiar skateboarding foundations into worlds from films including Toy Story and The Lion King. American Wasteland stays with human skaters and a fictional version of Los Angeles. Both use jumps, rails and objectives to teach you an area; American Wasteland adds more moves, story progression and BMX.
