Underground (2003) (VG)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Genre:

Action | Sport

Tagline:

You own the underground.

Plot Keywords:

Heavy Metal | Drug Dealer | Skateboarding | Manhattan | Russia

Cast

Larry Cedar	...	The Skater (voice)
Ben Diskin	...	(voice)
Melissa Disney	...	(voice)
Jeff Fischer	...	(voice)
Jason Harris	...	(voice)
Mikey Kelley	...	Eric Sparrow (voice)
R.J. Knoll	...	(voice)
Matt Levin	...	(voice)
Jessica Lynn	...	(voice)
Megan Parlen	...	(voice)
Stacy Peralta	...	Himself (voice)
Mike Orlstian	...	(voice)
Larc Spies	...	(voice) (as Lark Spies)
Wally Wingert	...	(voice)
Dave Wittenberg	...	(voice)

Also Known As:

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 (USA) (complete title)
Tony Hawk's Underground (USA) (complete title)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:T

Company:

Neversoft Entertainment

Trivia:

An unlockable level, "Hotter Than Hell", can be unlocked by beating the Story Mode once on any difficulty. The level is a KISS concert surrounded by ramps, rails, and even a go-kart track with a go-kart you can drive. The letters K-I-S-S are floating around in the air by jumps (all on the side of the stage you start on), and if you jump into all of them (in no particular order), KISS will come on stage and play a song for you. You can run up onto the stage while they're playing, but if you accidentally walk into/skate into one of them, you will bail. You can also go get the go-kart while they are playing (you don't have to be near the stage at all times to hear the music) and jump it over the fence, then drive up onto the stage. Also, the fire on stage will not hurt you.

Quotes:

[Bam Margera is standing on a quarterpipe set, watching Russian tanks drive by, transfixed. Tony Hawk, the Skater and Tony are standing behind him]
Bam Margera: Mmmm, tanks... aw tank-look at these tanks... *Damn*, look at these tanks...
Tony Hawk: What's up? Aren't you stoked by getting Best New Pro?
The Skater: Well... it's not a done deal yet. It's pretty close between me and Eric.
[Eric Sparrow skates up onto the set to join the others]
Eric Sparrow: Sup, guys?
[pregnant pause]
Eric Sparrow: Listen, I've been thinkin', we can't keep this up. Remember how I used to torch action figures with ya? I - I acted like a dork, I'm sorry, I got carried away.
[Eric extends his hand for a handshake. After much hesitation, the Skater returns the gesture]
Todd the Manager: [in a mocking tone] Aww, I'm touched, really! Hehe, haaa...
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in Spike TV VGA Video Game Awards (2003) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Drive

A definate for Tony Hawk game fans

To like this game, you have to play the others first. Or you could play the Very easy difficulty. This is nicely different from the other games because it gives you a great story mode with movies and everything where the main character can look like whatever you want.

One really cool features is that there's more to create. Other than doing skaters and parks, you can now create tricks and goals!

The usual skaters are here (Tony Hawk, Bam Margera) and they get involved in the story mode too. The music isn't great. There's a lot of lesser-known bands (or perhaps that's a good thing) but I enjoyed skating to the Sex pistols before! But you can now do it to Kiss so that's cool.

Multiplayer is still the same except for the new "fireball" mode which is really cool.

So I definitely recommend for Tony Hawk fans and for the cool secret characters too!