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Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is a video game that has been released for the PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube and PC. The game was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision. The PC version of the game was ported/published by Aspyr Media, Inc. Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is the first Tony Hawk game to support Xbox Live; online play was previously limited to the PlayStation 2.

American Wasteland is the sequel to Tony Hawk's Underground 2
, one of many in the popular Tony Hawk extreme sports game series. The game was released on October 18, 2005 for PS2, Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube. This is around the time of the expected release of the Xbox 360 in November 2005. It was a launch game for the Xbox 360 and was released simultaneously with the console on November 22, 2005.

The Nintendo DS version of this game, American Sk8land, will be the second game to support the Wi-Fi functions, allowing online compatibility.

In the September 2005 edition of Game Informer Magazine, a map was shown displaying THAW's Los Angeles with an insert of an overhead view of the Boston stage from Tony Hawk's Underground 2 for comparison. The Boston level appeared to be about three quarters the size of one THAW area, with the obvious exceptions of the "Vans Skatepark" and "Casino" areas. In addition, this map also revealed the locations in the game:

Oil rig
Santa Monica
Beverly Hills
Skate Ranch
Hollywood
Downtown Los Angeles
Vans Skatepark
East Los Angeles
Casino

Also, the Classic Mode, which allows you to complete a series of goals in certain levels within a two-minute time limit, has returned, with the following levels:

Downtown Minneapolis from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Santa Cruz from Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix
Mall from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Chicago from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Kyoto from Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix
The Ruins from Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix
Atlanta from Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix (Collector's Edition only)
Marseilles from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
(Collector's Edition only)

Story Mode

In THUG1, you were a rookie trying to make it as a pro.

In THUG2, which essentially carried on from THUG1, you were a pro-skater competing in a competition between teams lead by Tony Hawk & Bam Margera.

In THAW, set in a different universe where the previous adventures are just popular games, you're creating/fixing up Iggy's Skate Ranch. As the story progresses, you collect many items for the ranch, and take part in Tony Hawk's AmJam.

Characters

*Mindy
*Iggy
*Boone
*Murphy
*Useless Dave
*Gregorey
*Ian
*Mega
*Joe Skater
*Small Fry
*House slacka
*Joey B

Pro Skaters/BMXers

Skateboarders

*Tony Hawk - Skateboard
*Tony Alva - Skateboard
*Paul Rodriguez - Skateboard
*Stevie Williams - Skateboard
*Mike Vallely - Skateboard
*Bob Burnquist - Skateboard
*Daewon Song - Skateboard
*Bam Margera - Skateboard
*Ryan Sheckler - Skateboard
*Rodney Mullen - Skateboard
*Andrew Reynolds - Skateboard
*Tony Trujillo - Skateboard
*Jason Ellis (through cheat) - Skateboard

BMXers

*Rick Thorne - BMX
*Mat Hoffman - BMX

Secret Characters

Clear Story Mode (Easy)

*Harry Potter
*Mindy

Clear Story Mode (Normal)

*Lil' Jon (Rapper)
*Iggy
*Jason Ellis

Clear Story Mode (Hard/Sick)

*Jimbo
*Mega
*Murphy

Clear Classic Mode (Normal)

*Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day band member)
*Boone

Clear Classic Mode (Sick/Hard)

*Matt Hoffman
*Dave

Achieve 100% in Classic Mode

*Baller
*Welder
*Camera Guy
*Chloe

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