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Tony Hawk's Underground
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| Developer | Neversoft, (PC version,Beenox) |
| Publisher | Activision |
| Engine | RenderWare |
| Released | October 27, 2003 |
| Genre | Extreme sports |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Ratings | ESRB T (Teen) OFLC M15+ PEGI: 16+ |
| Platform(s) | Xbox, GameCube, PS2, PC (Australia and Download only), Game Boy Advance, Mobile Phone |
Tony Hawk's Underground, also called THUG and loosely referred to as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5, is a skateboarding video game available for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance and Xbox platforms released in 2003. A PC version was released exclusively in Australia as a budget release in 2005. This version was ported by Beenox. It is the fifth game in the Tony Hawk's series. It features the ability to create a custom character, and supports face mapping and online play on the PS2 and PC versions. Unlike its predecessors, Underground focuses heavily on its story mode, and to this extent includes a large number of in-game cut scenes. THUG is also the first game in the series to introduce the ability to travel around levels on foot.
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For the first time in the series, the player can walk around, rather than skateboard. This is necessary to reach some locations and challenges. This is linked to the Caveman move; the player is now able to leave his skateboard in the middle of a combo of moves, and continue his combo elsewhere, as long as he or she continues within a time limit. This time limit is another skill that can be improved. Added to the moves in THUG is the wall push (skating toward, then pushing off of a wall), the wall plant (jumping into a wall, then pushing off), and acid drops (transferring from a ramp to a quarter-pipe).
The story follows the trials and tribulations of two at-first unknown skaters, You, and your friend Eric Sparrow. The story begins in New Jersey, with You and Eric doing odd jobs and favors for locals. When one of your friends, Shawn says that the local drug addicts have stolen his skateboard, Eric proceeds to light the drug dealer's car on fire, as "revenge" for stealing his earlier in the game. You then meet up with Stacy Peralta, and ask for a sponsorship from his skate shop. He makes it a deal, as long as you show him something original, and don't film in any local spots. When you tell Eric the good news, he says that the drug dealers have been following him, angry that he destroyed their car. In an effort to help Eric, you hurry to leave town with him to Manhattan, New York.
Once you have arrived in Manhattan you decide to make a skate video hitting famous lines and tricks in well known areas of Manhattan. Once completed you talk to Stacy who tells you to join the Tampa AM skate event in Florida. You arrive in Tampa in trouble with the police for driving a shoddy vehicle (an old hippie bus lent by Stacy). You must first do favors for the local police force to proceed through to your Tampa experience. By the time the event starts you get into an argument with Eric when he "forgets" to sign you up. After impressing local pros, and doing some doubles with Tony Hawk himself, you are allowed into the event.
Once you dominate the event you join the sponsor of your choice (choosing from Birdhouse, Element, Flip, Girl, or Zero), which sends you to San Diego to do a demo. Eric is soon joined to the team, introduced to you during your party-induced hangover. When you and Eric impress your team manager Todd with your performance at the demo, you are sent to Hawaii to film for a team video. It is in Hawaii that a crucial part of the story happens, in which you search for a spot that has been untouched by skaters. You eventually find the rooftop of a tall hotel, and call Eric to film you skating on it. When a police helicopter arrives, Eric insists that you leave, but you want to seize the moment of a challenge, and perform a McTwist over the helicopter and onto another roof top. Your team then travels to Vancouver.
In Vancouver, after doing some local favors, you go to Slam City and view your team's video premiere, after hurriedly finishing parts for it. To your surprise, Eric had edited your filming of the rooftop jump, and Todd offers Eric the Status of Pro, as well as his own board. After confronting Eric, you then decide to enter the Slam City Jam contest, and lie that you are a Pro. The competition resolves into a one-on-one between you and Eric. You win, and are declared a Pro by Todd. After designing your own deck and gaining a shoe sponsor, the team decides to go to an international Pro skateboard demo in Moscow. While practicing for the demo, you are reconciled with Eric, and the both of you perform a double performance together.
In Moscow, you follow a drunk Eric when he "borrows" the keys to a Russian tank, and he takes it on a ride through town. After attempting to stop it, you lose control, and crash into a building, and become trapped in the tank under a pile of rubble. Eric blames you, you get sent to jail. The team bails you out but sacks you, and leaves you stranded in Moscow, so you must get home by doing favors for locals.
When you get back home you find that Eric has changed. He now has many sponsors, has a record label in the making, and now only skates for money. Eric reveals that he has been plotting to bring you down. You resolve to show Eric how wrong he is by making a "soul skating" video. This is very successful, and provokes Eric into challenging you to a last skateboarding line in return for the Hawaii tape. After you win, you take the tape, walk away from Eric, who curses as you leave.
On a second run-through, there is an alternate ending. Instead of you following Eric's line again, a cut scene shows him flashing tape at you but this time instead of doing his line, in a final frustrated move the player elbows Eric in the jaw, grabs the tape, and walks away as Eric faints onto his car.
- Iron Man
- Gene Simmons
- THUD: A C.H.U.D.-like creature.
If all Gaps are collected one can also unlock:
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The Levels featured in the game are:
- New Jersey
- Manhattan
- Tampa, FL
- San Diego, CA
- Hawaii
- Vancouver
- Vans' Slam City Jam (also in Vancouver)
- Moscow, Russia
- Hotter than Hell (a KISS concert in Australia)
- School II (from THPS2)
- Venice Beach (from THPS2)
- The Hanger (from THPS2)
There are three unlockable levels hidden as "tokens" in game. In New Jersey, behind the Train Station, there is token to unlock "School II" from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2. In Hawaii, there is a token to be collected if the player jumps into the wooden tiki statue, below the suspended freeway. A third token is located inside the large red building in Moscow, if the player smashes one of the ground level windows, opposite the fountain. Venice and the Hangar are unlockable from these tokens.
Also, in these unlockable levels, completing goals from their respective games will unlock secret areas too, e.g. grinding the helicopter in the 'Hangar' level, or grinding all three 'Roll Call' rails in the 'School II' level.
Also, if one beats any mode of story, one can unlock Hotter than Hell, a level that features a KISS concert. This level is named after the KISS album (and song) "Hotter Than Hell". If you collect each of the KISS letters, the lights of the level will change, and the KISS band will appear onto the stage and play "Rock and Roll All Nite", "Lick It Up" or "God of Thunder".
There is a total of 77 songs in the game. They are listed below, alphabetically by Artist and with the track names and the groups into which the tracks are sorted; Punk, Hip-Hop and Rock/Other.
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- E3 2003 Game Critics Awards: Best Sports Game
- Gamespot's Best And Worst 2003 Most Despicable Use of In-Game Advertising
- MTV Video Music Awards's 2004 Best Video Game Soundtrack
- Some Tony Hawk Gameshark Codes
- Tony Hawk's Underground at MobyGames
- GameFAQs guides for Tony Hawk's Underground
- GameFAQs.com reader reviews (Xbox)
- GameSpot reader review (Xbox)
- Tony Hawk Central
- Tony Hawk's Underground website
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