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Tony Hawk's American Wasteland

You are a new skater in the city of L.A.. The main drive of the game is that your hanging around with a skating group and its leader, who also happens to be a skating legend, at their skate park in Beverly…

75 18 October 2005

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is an adventure developed by Neversoft Entertainment, released 18 October 2005 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is an adventure game developed by Neversoft Entertainment and released in 2005. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is a 2005 skateboarding video game developed by Neversoft and published by Activision. It is the seventh entry in the Tony Hawk's series and was released initially for the GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox in 2005 in North America on October 18 and October 28 in Europe, launching on the Xbox 360 as a launch title with ports for other systems released later.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Tony Hawk's series

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is the 16th of 37 entries we hold in the Tony Hawk's series. It arrived a year after Tony Hawk's Underground 2. The next entry was Tony Hawk's American Sk8land in 2005. Its critic score of 75 is 4 points below the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 at 89.

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How it was received

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 122 votes.

What it launched against

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland launched on 18 October 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005). All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005).

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When did Tony Hawk's American Wasteland come out?
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland was released on 18 October 2005 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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