Tony Hawk's Proving Ground for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

...And it runs the game and bam, first thing you realize as you're going through menus is that the load times are made for patient people...That's probably the first issue with the game.

As you begin to design your skater for your wonderfully predicted skating life, you realize the selection of customizable features and props are a little scarce, don't get too optimistic, it won't improve by much as you go on.

This game has a good but over done concept within its self. Customizable skating career/world with Tony Hawk labeled all over the game. The TH series has gone over its self so many times that it has begun to collapse on its own weight.

Skating is pretty much the same, you got grinds, kick flips, spines, manuals, and so forth. This game adds the little "Nail The Trick" thing where it lets you control your skate board in a faulty way. This little gimmick is nice, but its difficult to master and not too amazing.

Creating your own skate park doesn't exist any longer, it's gone for good and replaced with a cruddy selection of environment items and skating pieces. Your little warehouse hang out is located within the story and that's pretty much where you can go for a free skate.

Money, skills, and story building takes place within the game's story mode in which you complete goals by visiting parts of the city. Each goal you complete unfolds the story a little more from that perspective. You can go hardcore, be a rigger, you can go big time, and some other things too.

The game also introduces mind-boggling amounts of mini skating goals throughout the city, littered in so many places that you'll have difficulties trying to start one and be able to find the end of the path to which you must take the goal to in order to complete it (in example, hold a manual down a street or grind an entire curb).
This game is pretty much a watered down TH game with a few new gimmicks and some fancy lighting.
Not worth playing unless you're a true Tony Hawk fan. I recommend skat.