American game wasteland

Wasteland Remastered retains the spirit of the original game while updating visuals and audio. Including a remastered and expanded musical score from the original composers.

Survive the apocalypse from the comfort of your couch with full game controller support. Originally released in , Wasteland brought the post-apocalypse to video games and inspired a genre. The year is , nearly a century after an all-out nuclear war turned vast swaths of the Earth into a radioactive hellscape. Now something more secretive and sinister is menacing humanity, and it's your job to investigate. Recruit help and follow leads—the choices you make will shape the world around you.

Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is a console port, so you know the drill. Infuriating controls, so-so graphics and a nonsensical camera are all present and correct. The 'no levels, no load times' selling point is a bit of a lie, as your PC chugs and stops to think in the corridors that link the bland districts together: San Andreas on a board, this most certainly isn't.

Your enjoyment of Wasteland also depends on how many fingers and thumbs you've got. If it's more than the regulation ten issued to the majority of us by those in the know, you might be alright. Without wacky mutated hands though, you'll find yourself stabbing wildly at any buttons you can to pull off moves.

Admittedly, performing the mid-air aerobatics we were so cruelly unable to pull off as clown-footed pre-teens was undeniably enjoyable, while the ability to customise your character and skate about with reckless abandon like Marty McFly were definite plus-points. However, the fun factor is most definitely missing in Wasteland, and it's difficult to recommend spending any money on a port of a sub-par console game when your PC is capable of something exponentially more delightful.

Since I last reviewed this title on the PS2, I must say, I think I may have given this game more credit than it deserved. In hindsight, while it still remains a decent title, because of its replay value, it doesn't seem as comfortable on the , and in the end, can be very frustrating to play. Still, it can be fun, but unfortunately, you aren't going to get much more out of the version as compared to any other. Grinding, tricking, and a wide open environment is still very much the name of the game.

Although it is an understandable design decision, I wish that some of the levels had been torn apart to open up the levels for the Xbox 's powerful hardware. The bad news is that you've still got to ride through giant corridors to get from area to area.

This game also still has a very trickable environment, and an extremely wide amount of missions and different features you can try. Upon arrival in Hollywood , the player gets punched by locals, who steal his bag and tell the player to go home, with Los Angeles being a locals-only scene.

Here the player meets Mindy, who tells the player that they need to sort their clothes and hair out, which are making them stand out as an outsider at the moment.

The player then changes his hair and clothes, and meets two local skaters, Ian and Duane, who introduce new tricks to the player and advance the player's skills. The player sees Mindy drawing and finds out that she is a talented artist. Her sketches are going to be featured in her skating magazine, named American Wasteland. However, Mindy hasn't gathered enough money to fund the project yet, but the player assures her it will happen. She has sketched something that catches the player's eye.

The player proceeds to ask what the place is and Mindy says it is a "sick spot that you would absolutely love," but then tells the player that the spot is exclusive to local skaters. The player then pleads with her to get them in, to which Mindy agrees. However, the skate park is in Beverly Hills , and the passage to Beverly Hills is blocked by a protest against poor treatment of sheep. The player ends the protest by destroying a huge dinosaur head model that is on top of a movie theatre, which smashes into the protest.

You arrive in Beverly Hills and go outside a place called the " Skate Ranch ," which is where the place in Mindy 's sketchbook is. Mindy 's skater friends, Boone , a bald man who goes for extreme jumps and gaps, but usually bails. Useless Dave , a short man who is "the encyclopedia of useless skateboarding trivia", and Murphy , a tall, sarcastic type who has an endless array of contacts and friends all over LA , and is always on his cell phone.

He won't let you go into the ranch, unless you can keep up with their skating skills. You have to learn their performed tricks and then show them to them to prove yourself worthy of going in the ranch.

Gaining their approval, you are let into the ranch, and meet the leader of the group, Iggy Van Zandt , a very rough type, who isn't fond of outsiders. He will let you crash at the ranch if you obtain some wood for a vert ramp he is building. When you do, the vert ramp is set-up, which spurs the group to do the ranch up and make it a full-on skatepark.

With the help of Murphy 's contacts, you and the group embark on obtaining skate-able pieces from all over LA , the first being the destroyed dinosaur head you made earlier on. Sign In. Home Discussions Workshop Market Broadcasts. Change language. Install Steam. Your Store Your Store.

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Wasteland Remastered is an overhaul of the title that brought the post-apocalypse to video games. See where the Wasteland series began and experience the character and world the sequels are built on. All Reviews:. Popular user-defined tags for this product:. Is this game relevant to you? Sign In or Open in Steam. Languages :.