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#TONY HAWK PROVING GROUND WII TRAILER UPGRADE#

You also earn the same amount of ability upgrade points for getting Am as you do for Sick, so there's no difference there. You'll clear the challenge for finishing it on Am, so progression isn't affected by getting better rankings.

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A competition might require 50,000 points for earning an Am ranking, 150,000 for Pro and 800,000 for Sick, for example. As was the case with Project 8, Tony Hawk's Proving Ground has three levels of difficulty for each challenge - Am (for amateur), Pro and Sick. One thing that's a bit curious though is how the rewards, or lack thereof, for the different difficulty options have been implemented. Whereas the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 games rendered your skater along with the other characters in real-time, this version has to make use of pre-rendered cutscenes in some places, and in others just removed them entirely.

While the setup is nice, unfortunately the PlayStation 2 and Wii ports of the game featured very stripped-down versions of the storylines and some of them don't make a whole lot of sense anymore. None of them are all that interesting, and aside from the real skaters they're plagued with annoying characters, but at least you no longer get to a point where you must complete a single goal to progress and your inability to do so would keep you from going any further. Everything you do works towards your overall goals of getting your own signature board, putting together your own team and things like this, but the goal-based story elements are playable in any order and you can go about them at your own pace.

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One nice new change is that there isn't a single, overarching storyline anymore but rather a series of smaller stories that you can play through at any time. Being as you can play these in any order you want, it means that you might not have access to some of the better new features, like the mentioned Nail a Grab or the ability to check people, until later in the game. For instance, you're unable to use the new Nail a Grab until you've run through the beginning of Bob Burnquist's story. One thing that's different this time around though is that you don't have access to really any of the game's new features until you've gone through the proper story goals and learned them. This might have been somewhat fixable had decided to put in support for the Classic Controller or GameCube pad, but you won't find any of that here. Many of the moves outside of simple grabs and kickflips don't even come close to approaching 100% reliability, and with a game that's designed around exacting input, the whole experience simply falls apart. Trying to use the new Aggro Push can be frustrating to the point of throwing your controller out of the window, and attempting to check pedestrians will ensure that you do. Unfortunately, their implementation is pretty terrible and all but the most basic control functions are extremely hit-or-miss with regards to precision. While the other versions of the game feature the signature and spot-on control scheme, the Wii version of the title uses the Wii Remote and Nunchuck exclusively. And since the series has now seen its first strong, direct competitor in its nearly decade-long history with EA's skate, its lack of any significant design changes in years is even more apparent. Neversoft (and thereby Studios, who handled the port) has once again tweaked the formula a bit, and while some of the additions are certainly welcome, the Birdman is really starting to show his age. So here we are with the ninth title in the series, Tony Hawk's Proving Ground.

Yearly updates have added in a few new moves, new areas to skate in and varying story and progression formulas, some better than others.

Part of the reason for this is that since THPS2 was so robust and encompassing, there wasn't a whole lot missing that Neversoft could add to the formula. Since then the franchise has had its ups and downs. A year later, Neversoft followed up the game with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, the nearly-perfect sequel that took everything to the next level and set the bar high enough that competing franchises quickly died off attempt after attempt. Its control scheme set the industry standard for years to come, and its goal-based progression has been the basis for most similar titles since then. When the first Tony Hawk's Pro Skater hit the PlayStation back in 1999, it redefined what an extreme sports game could be.

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