{"id":154,"date":"2007-09-14T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/tony-hawk-proving-ground-demo-review\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T22:10:00","slug":"tony-hawk-proving-ground-demo-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/tony-hawk-proving-ground-demo-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Hawk Proving Ground Demo Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/image.com.com\/gamespot\/images\/2007\/232\/939512_20070821_screen003.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/image.com.com\/gamespot\/images\/2007\/232\/939512_20070821_screen003.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I spent some time with the THPG demo today and after being completely frustrated with the skate demo it was good to get back to a familiar skateboarding game. If you played Project 8 then you&#8217;re already pretty familiar with the gameplay style.  Yes, it is arcadey and completely unrealistic, but it is fun. In addition to everything they had in Project 8 there are some cool new additions.  First, they have expanded the Nail-the-Trick mode to add the Nail-the-Grab and Nail-the-Manual.  Nail-the-Grab flows well with the already existing Nail-the-Trick and I&#8217;m looking forward to trying out the Nail-The-Manual because in a couple of the videos I&#8217;ve seen it looks really seamless.  They have also broken down the skaters into three types.  The competitors, the hard core, and the rigger\/builder.  Each skater type gets new attributes\/skills and plays the game differently.  Additionally there is a built in Video Editor for showing off all the cool tricks and lines you skate.  This Tony Hawk iteration has three main cities it takes place in: Baltimore, Philadelphia and DC.  IT is nice they went back to real locations after Project 8&#8217;s giant mess of a city.  Overall Tony Hawk Proving Ground looks to a nice step up from Project 8.  Personally I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be playing it for a while.  Hopefully the last few challenges are not as impossible as they were in Project 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent some time with the THPG demo today and after being completely frustrated with the skate demo it was good to get back to a familiar skateboarding game. If you played Project 8 then you&#8217;re already pretty familiar with the gameplay style. Yes, it is arcadey and completely unrealistic, but it is fun. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}