Tony Hawk's Underground
About the Game
Like earlier entries in the Tony Hawk skateboarding series on the Game Boy Advance, Tony Hawk's Underground adapts the console title to the handheld platform using isometric graphics and polygonal characters. The main game mode is story mode.
Gameplay & Core Systems
Players create their own skater who in the beginning only knows a few basic tricks. By performing moves successfully, the skater's stats and number of known tricks will increase. The campaign consists of 10 large levels. Completing goals adds cash to the character's wallet, makes more areas of the level available to skate in, and unlocks levels and pro skaters. When it reaches zero, the skater is moved to the beginning of the level.
Standout Features
- Friendly characters standing around the neighborhood can be talked to and give tasks that usually have to be completed within a time limit: these include performing specific tricks or combos, finding certain items or reaching high scores.
- Wearing protective gear (helmets and knee pads) reduces the impact of crashes, and eating food items replenishes the health meter.
- The free skate mode allows practicing unlocked levels without a time limit.
- An entirely new option allows the skater to step off the board and run around on foot: thus a quick 'run-out' is a new trick to increase the combo multiplier.
- Players create their own skater who in the beginning only knows a few basic tricks.
- By performing moves successfully, the skater's stats and number of known tricks will increase.
- The campaign consists of 10 large levels.
- Completing goals adds cash to the character's wallet, makes more areas of the level available to skate in, and unlocks levels and pro skaters.
Modes & Ways to Play
Further modes include arcade mode, which hearkens back to the classic Tony Hawk games: after picking a pro skater, a two-minute-run of a level begins, in which a number of goals must be completed. While arcade and story modes use the same levels, the goals are completely different. The free skate mode allows practicing unlocked levels without a time limit. Multiplayer modes include two hot-seat games: a HORSE contest and a high score competition.
Player support includes Free-for-all / One-on-one (VS).
More game data: releases, identifiers & technical details
Regional release records and identifiers for Tony Hawk's Underground | Nintendo Game Boy Advance.
Release and technical facts
| Fact | Value | Release / platform | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published by | Activision Publishing, Inc. | United States | MobyGames |
| Developed by | Vicarious Visions, Inc. | United States | MobyGames |
| Music by | Shin'en Multimedia GmbH | United States | MobyGames |
| Sound Engine by | Shin'en Multimedia GmbH | United States | MobyGames |
| Package Design by | Imagewerks Inc. | United States | MobyGames |
| Manual by | Ignited Minds, LLC | United States | MobyGames |
| Multiplayer Game Modes | Free-for-all / One-on-one (VS) | Game Boy Advance | MobyGames |
| Miscellaneous Attributes | Multi-Link Cable | Game Boy Advance | MobyGames |
| Miscellaneous Attributes | Single Cartridge Multiplayer Support | Game Boy Advance | MobyGames |
Regional releases
| Release date | Region / edition | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2003-10-28 | United States | MobyGames |
Catalog identifiers by release
| Identifier | Code | Region / edition | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| UPC-A | 047875807372 | United States | MobyGames |
| ISBN-10 | 1584166665 | United States | MobyGames |
| Nintendo Media PN | AGB-BTOE-USA | United States | MobyGames |
Data by MobyGames.com
