================================ Tony Hawk's American Wasteland FAQ/Walkthrough Written by: Drunky and mrbort Last Updated: October 23nd, 2005 ================================ ========================================== Table of Contents ========================================== 1. Updates 2. Introduction 3. Controls 4. Story Mode 4.1) Hollywood 4.2) Beverly Hills 4.3) Skate Ranch 4.4) Hollywood II 4.5) Beverly Hills II 4.6) Hollywood III 4.7) Downtown 4.8) Vans Park 4.9) Skate Ranch II 4.10) Beverly Hills III 4.11) Santa Monica 4.12) Oil Rig 4.13) Skate Ranch III 4.14) Getting to East LA 4.15) East LA 4.16) Skate Ranch IV 4.17) Impress the Pros: Beverly Hills 4.18) Impress the Pros: Hollywood 4.19) Impress the Pros: Downtown 4.20) Impress the Pros: Vans Park 4.21) Impress the Pros: Santa Monica 4.22) Impress the Pros: East LA 4.23) Casino 4.24) The Final Mission 4.25) Skate Ranch V 5. Classic Mode 5.1) Minneapolis 6. Side Missions (Story Mode) 7. Online Mode 8. Frequently Asked Questions 9. Glitches 10. Contact/Legal Information ========================================== 1. Updates ========================================== 09/23/05 - Finished Story Mode Started Classic Mode 09/22/05 - Finished up to East LA 09/21/05 - Finished up to Santa Monica 09/20/05 - Began the FAQ/Walkthrough ========================================== 2. Introduction ========================================== This is a jointly written FAQ. mrbort has played every THPS game to death yet is still not very good; he gets smoked badly by any online player. Drunky picked up THAW as the first THPS game he has ever played. He has done a fantastic job of learning the controls and the game. This FAQ is a synthesis of their two experience levels and will include tips that are good for the experienced player and that are good for a beginner. However, as a disclaimer, both of us played this game on Easy Mode to start. Some of the goals for the harder modes may be different. ========================================== 3. Controls ========================================== Controls ======== Start Pause/Menu X Jump (Ollie) X (Held) Crouch O (While in air) Grab Tricks O Slap Square (While in air) Flip Tricks Triangle Grind (When in air) Right Analog Stick Camera Movement Left Analog Stick Movement Directional Pad Movement R2/L2 Revert L1+R1 Switch from walking/boarding ========================================== 4. Story Mode ========================================== 4.1 Hollywood ========================================== When you start out in story mode you'll recieve a quick introduction, and then you get to choose which skater you would like to play as. You will be able to change their appearances during the first level, so pick whoever you like. Once you've made your choice you'll see a backstory of your life, and meet a rather stupid blonde. God I hope we dont see her again. Once you've finished the cutscene you'll be introduced to a new character, Mindy. She will be your guide throughout Los Angeles and introduce you to fellow skaters. You will automatically be given your first mission. ======================== A Change Your Look ======================== Extremely easy mission. Walk straight forward into Psychosis, the barber shop. Get close to the barber and press O to 'chop your mop'. You start off with enough money to change your haircut, I'd suggest getting a cheap one to start off until you can earn some serious cash. You can also change your facial hair if you wish, it is not not required to complete the mission however. So if you're saving up money, don't worry about it. Otherwise, pick whatever you want. Once you're done, click Done and exit the shop. *Glitch Warning* There seems to be a glitch that puts you in a loop. If you fail the mission by running out of the area, talking to Mindy will fail you for not having completed the mission. The problem with this is that you will *always* fail. This is a random glitch, so be careful. Its not a loss if you have to restart the game. =========================== B Change Your Clothes =========================== Another easy mission. Exactly like the first one. Just walk straight into the shop and get close to the salesman, and press O to 'change your digs'. Same rules apply from the first mission. Change whatever you like, splurge if you dont mind spending all your cash right off the bat. Once you're done, click Done and exit the shop. Watch the cutscene and save your game if you wish. ======================== C Learn to Caveman ======================== Walk straight forward to the skater practicing Ollies. His icon is a pink star on your compass. Meet Ian, the skater who happens to be afraid of girls. Wimp. Simple mission. First off start skating down the road, and press L1 and R1 together to start walking. Now its time to grind. Start skating beside the ropes, then press X to jump on the ropes, and Triangle to grind. Now you combine the two. Press L1 and R1 to go into walking mode, run beside the ropes. Jump in the air by pressing X and Triangle to grind. You've just learned to Caveman. ============================== D Do a Sponsor Challenge ============================== Your first challenge. There are 70 challenges available in Story Mode. You can view the ones you have completed by pressing Start -> View Missions. Head on over to the 118 board shop located in the top left corner of the map, the skateboarding icon on your compass. Dont actually head into the shop just yet, you dont need to upgrade your gear. Instead talk to Mindy using the O button to recieve your first Sponsor Challenge. Sponsor Challenges increase your stats, and they change daily. Once you talk to Mindy, then head towards the skate shop. You dont actually need to go inside, just press O at their doors to view the posters. You can complete any one of the 4 objectives to complete the challenge. The easiest way to complete it is to do the Caveman in a combo. Head on over to the yellow guard rails just down the road to your left, grind them using triangle and then jump off while pressing L1+R1 to complete a Caveman. *Note, completing this mission does NOT mean you have completed the sponsor challenge. You must still finish the other 3 objectives.* You've just earned a Stat Increase and have recieved your first text message. ========================= E Kickflip Whofleck ========================= Part 1 ====== I'm sure they meant to say Affleck. Head on back up to Mindy who is still hanging around the skateshop. She'll introduce you to Duane who puts you up to some stupid dare. You have to perform a kickflip over Ben Aff---Whoflecks head. The game isnt very picky, you were intended to grind the ropes, jump off and hit <- + Square over his head. That would look rather cool, but all you have to do is perform a kickflip in the vicinity of Whofleck to actually pass the mission. I did it right beside him and then slammed into his limo and still passed. So do whatever you want in this one. If you grind the rail and jump over his head, you should be able to knock off another objective from your previous sponsor challenge of ollying up 3 feet along with the other challenges of grinding for 1 second and gaining a 1000 point combo. If the grinding into a kickflip is too hard, go in front of Whofleck on the read carpet. Skate towards him, hit X to jump and then immediately hit <- and Square to do a kickflip. You'll slam into the limo and actually not jump over his head, and you will look slightly pathetic, but it will complete the mission. ====== Part 2 ====== Now that you've proven you're insane, Duane will teach you a new move, called a Manual. You have to be on your board, and quickly press Up and then Down (Using the keypad or the analog stick), this will put you into a Manual. A meter will appear onscreen, the objective is to keep your balance by keeping the needle in the middle of the meter, if you go to the extreme top (green), you will exit the manual, if you go to the extreme bottom (red), you will fall off your board. Once you've done a manual, it is easier to do a Caveman (L1+R1) to get off your board, do another Caveman to get back on, and start again. You have to do this 3 times, however there is no time limit for a manual. So you can just do it for one second and still have it counted. You'll know when you've successfully done a manual when a ticking clock appears on screen telling you how long you have to add to the combo. ====== Part 3 ====== Once you're done that, you'll be forced to do a 'test' of sorts. You must do a manual from the star of Tony Hawk to the star of Tony Alva. (Called a Tony-to-Tony). You'll start off with a bit of a head start, so hit Up then Down as fast as you can to get into a manual. Do your best to keep the arrow in the middle of the meter so you keep your balance. Once you've made it to the star of Tony Alva, press L1+R1 to get off your board and let the combo timer run out. Congratulations, you've added a new trick to your arsenal, the manual. *Hint - If you've failed the mission and are running out of time, hit start and select Retry Mission. If you do it this way you start back to the Tony-to-Tony mission instead of all the way back to Kickflipping Whofleck.* ======================= F Learn to Revert ======================= From where you start, head onto the road and take a left, follow the road around the corner until you see an outdoor patio. This is where you meet Duane and meet up with Ian again. ====== Part 1 ====== Simply skate up the quarter pipe, as you make contact with the ramp after landing, press R2. You've just done a revert, completing the mission. Easy, eh? ====== Part 2 ====== Now you have to combine what you learned in the previous mission (performing a manual) with a revert. Start by skating up the ramp, when you land quickly press R2, followed by Up then Down on the directional pad or left analog stick. Balance yourself for a split second, and you'll be asked to land it. Simply press X to end the trick. =========================== G Get Your Stuff Back =========================== Now is your chance to teach the punks who jumped you a good lesson. Head over to Hollywood High to start this mission. The location is just North of you. ====== Part 1 ====== This is basically a restricted free skate. You can pull off any tricks you want within 60 seconds, but you must stay in the area, if you leave you will just get a "Too bad you can't hide" message and lose valuable seconds. The punk isnt that bad, he can easily be beat simply by grinding the rails from left to right and constantly repeating that one trick. You'll gain a large amount of points and get a very nice lead on him. Your best bet would be to find a trick you're good at, and you know you can land, and just repeat that. If you cant seem to land any tricks at all, just grind the rails, and remember its better to go to the extreme green and successfully land your trick than the red and fall flat on your face. ====== Part 2 ====== Lying punk, I knew he couldnt be trusted. Now you're forced to chase his ass down and take whats rightfully yours. You have 60 seconds to catch up to him and knock him with your skateboard using the O button. The punks route is severely limited... basically to that one stretch of road. He will just skate back and forth, allowing you to close any gaps when he turns around for another run through. The only problem you should have with him is when he starts pulling tricks on the steps, sometimes it becomes hard to keep up with him. Theres a simple solution to this, RUN. Get off your skateboard (L1+R1), and just run after him, when he gets within a reasonable range, press O. Once you're done with your little bit of street justice, you'll have earned a new trick, Whack and Throw. ============================== H Get into Beverly Hills ============================== This may be a challenge. In order to stop the idiots from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Sheep, you have to distract them with some of your moves. Very straightforward, you're presented with 3 ramps, 3 chances. The first ramp is easy, you only need to land a 2000 point combo to make a bit of headway with the protesters. The second ramp might be a little harder, button mashing wont quite make it. You need to be careful to stay within bounds, hitting the corners of the roof count as out of bounds. Not only will you have to restart, the game seems to mock you with every failed attempt. The best way to beat this one is to do a liptrick (press Triangle at the top of the ramp) and try to balance your way into 5000 points. If you want to be a hotdog and just start busting out combos, go right ahead. As long as you get 5000 points in one combo. Oh boy! A 10 000 point combo. Be careful of the small hazard of a hole in the roof. Skate around it, jump it, or just avoid it and stay on one side of the roof. Again, there is no perfect way to beat this, so you can either try liptricking your way into 10 000 points, or pulling off one massive combo. Congratulations, you've just skated your way into the big time. Well not really, but its a step up from being punched in the mouth by a punk. ========================================== 4.2 Beverly Hills ========================================== Alright, you've just been introduced to the minor players in Beverly Hills. These guys wont let you see Iggy until you can prove you're worthy of staying at the Ranch. You're now responsible for impressing Boone, Murphy, and Dave. And have 5 new missions you can complete in any order. For organization purposes the following are listed the way they appear in the View Mission screen. ============================ A Learn the Natas Spin ============================ Now talk to Kurt, he will teach you to Natas Spin. Looks rather complicated, but its not as bad. Just a tad bit harder than grinding. Skate towards the pole and do an Ollie (X). Now while in midair, press either L1 or R1 while holding down Triangle. You will perform a Natas spin. You need to do this for 3 seconds on the labelled poles. It has to be the 2 poles designated, otherwise you will fail this mission. If you find it easier you dont even need to skate towards it. Walk beside the pole and press X then perform the Natas Spin. ============================ B Learn Parkour Tricks ============================ Now go talk to Frenchie, hes located in the alleyway. Hes going to teach you how to Parkour (or basically, run up a wall). This is probably the easiest mission yet, run up to the wall, and press R1. Thats it. Do it 3 times to move on. Now you get fancy, a wallrun WITH a wallflip. Perform a wallrun as usual, but make sure you hold down R1 as soon as you start running up the wall, otherwise when you try to do a wallflip, you'll just jump away from the wall. You dont want to do that, you want to run up the wall, and press Down and X at the same time to do a wallflip. Do this 3 times to move on. Now its time to shimmy. Do it exactly like you grind, run towards the ramp, and press Triangle. You'll grab the ledge, now just use the directional arrows or the analog stick to move side to side. Make sure you go all the way to the markers to complete this part of the mission. The tucks are fairly simple, first just double jump like you would in several other video games by quickly double tapping X. Then run forward while double jumping. Once you're done that, you've learned 5 new tricks. =================================== C Learn Spines, Flips, Rolls, Acid Drops, Banks =================================== Now its time to talk to Alan. He's located in the top left corner of your map. The first thing he'll show you how to do is a Spine Transfer over the roof. All you need to do is skate towards the edge of the rooftops, and when in the air, press R2. You'll perform a nice Spine Transfer. Do this 3 times to move on to flips. Okay you need to do 3 flips now. Front or back, it doesnt matter. To do a flip you need to Press and hold O and then either double tap the Down arrow to do a backflip or doubletap the front arrow to do a forward flip. Do not hold down the arrows, this will make you perform a grab, not a flip. Remember to let go of O before you land, otherwise you'll hang on to the board and you will not land it properly. Now on to rolls. Three of them to be exact. Fairly simple, skate up the ramp, and press O while doubletapping either the left or right arrows. Same rules apply as to flips, hold O but release it before you land, otherwise you will not be able to complete the trick. Now on to Acid Drops, very simple. Just run off the roof and tap R2 as you go along in order to drop into the quarter pipe. Dont get on your board, just run, you'll get on your board when you drop off the roof. Finally Bank Transfers, easy as the Acid Drop. Skate up to the ramp, and hit R2 in midair. Turn around, repeat. Do it 3 times to complete this mission and get that much closer to the Skate Ranch. You've also picked up several new tricks, yay. ========================================== D Learn the Boneless and Boned Ollie ========================================== Time to talk to Josh. He'll teach you to gain more air, this will make performing tricks much easier. Start moving forward while on your board, press the Up arrow twice and then X to do a Boneless. Dont worry if you leave the area, you'll start back from the beginning for the next part of this mission. Once you're done that you'll learn the Boned Ollie. Just go straight forward and double jump like you may have done while learning the Parkour Tricks. Hopefully you can get in 3 double jumps before hitting the wall. If not, dont worry. You'll have plenty of time. ============================== E Learn Some Wall Tricks ============================== Talk to Jeff, he is located right across from the entrance to the Skate Ranch. This guy will teach you 3 new wall tricks. First, you need to skate towards a wall, when you're a few feet away, jump, and press X when you make contact with the wall. You'll slap a sticker on the wall and push away, this is called a Sticker Slap. When you've done 3 of those, you will do the same thing, but instead of slapping a sticker on the wall, you'll push off with your foot. Same thing, skate towards the wall, jump, but this time press the Down arrow and X when you make contact with the wall. Then you'll learn how to wallride. Its best if you skate alongside a wall rather than directly towards it, when you're by a wall, jump up and press Triangle to skate along the wall. Very easy, and once you're done you'll have 3 new moves and you're a little bit closer to being accepted into the Skate Ranch. Now that you're done learning the tricks, you'll recieve a text message from Mindy. (If you dont remember how to check it, press Start and select Text Messages.) She'll suggest that you earn some more stats via Sponsor Challenges before trying to make it to the Skate Ranch and impressing her friends. You can either do that, or skip it if you have the skills and try to get into the Ranch. ================================= F Impress Murphy/Boone/Dave ================================= This is a very straight forward task, just do exactly as you were told to do. You only need to impress one of the friends to move on, you can can choose whichever set of tricks you are most comfortable with or want to attempt. Murphy ------ First perform a wallrun up the wall (R1 while on foot), then do a wallflip (Down+X), and when you start to land, quickly hold down L1 and Triangle to do a Natas Spin. Remember to let go of Down, X and R1, otherwise you'll hit the ground. Dont worry about aiming properly, as long as you're in the right area you'll automatically land on the pole. However if you dont push the buttons at the right time, you will miss no matter what. ========================================== 4.3 Skate Ranch ========================================== Head to the Skate Ranch (Green icon on the compass) to continue the story. You've finally made it into the Skate Ranch, but unfortunately getting in was the easy part. If you want to stay in you have to earn your keep. After you meet Iggy Van Zandt you'll be given your first mission in the Skate Ranch. ================================= A Skitch Sanchez ================================= You have to collect wood in order to help Iggy build a new ramp and prove you can carry your own weight. So get busy. You'll need to find the spots with a suitable supply of wood. So head back to the entrance where Murphy is waiting for you. He'll let you borrow Sanchez so you can grab the wood for their ramp. This is going to be a fairly easy or fairly difficult mission for you depending on how good you are at keeping your meters balanced. You need to skate up behind Sanchez, you will grab him and he will pull you towards your destination. You need to keep yourself balanced, or you will let go of him and have to reposition yourself. Its not that long of a ride, just outside the Skate Ranch exit is where you need to go. You'll see the sign you have to smash. Hit it with your skateboard (Remember to get off of it first) and press O to smash it to bits. However its not enough wood, so you'll have to get back on Sanchez and find another location. This ride is a little bit longer, you'll be heading back to Hollywood. Not far in though, about where the Dino head fell. Smash the sign, and now its time for a race. Its not against the dog though. He'll be long gone before you can even get back on your board. You'll be racing against the timer, it shouldnt be a problem as long as you dont try to do too many tricks on your way back to the Ranch. ====================================== B Learn the Bert Slide from Iggy ====================================== Time to learn a new move from Iggy himself. The Bert Slide itself is easy. All you have to do is start skating forward, and then press R1 and either the left or right arrows or use the left analog stick. Do this 3 times to complete this part of the mission. Okay, before you start doing the Bert Slide across the halfpipe, just keep in mind you dont need to go around in a circle. The simplest way to do this is to first hold down X, when you get to to the first icon, press and hold R1. Now start wiggling the left analog stick back and forth while keeping R1 and X held down. This will complete the mission for you. Now you have to Bert Slide on the vertical walls. Press X to gain speed as you go down the ramp, then following the paint on the boards, use the left analog stick to go over the gap. When you are above the door, press R1 while continuing to steer left. You'll finish the trick automatically. Thats it for the Skate Ranch missions for now. ========================================== 4.4 Hollywood II ========================================== ========================= A Buy the Dino Head ========================= Time to head back to Hollywood, the Dino Head is right outside the exit from Beverly Hills, and when you get there you'll see a guy named Joey B. waiting for you. Talk to this guy to cut a deal for the Dino Head. Now you'll need to earn money (if you dont have it already) to buy the head. It shouldnt be too hard, you dont need a lot of money, and unless you went on a shopping spree to trick out your character, you shouldnt need to do much. To earn the money you'll have to do side missions. You can talk to the tagger (Yellow spray paint can on your compass), and he'll ask you to tag a spot for him. All you have to do is walk up to the white outline and hit Triangle to earn easy cash. Or you can find the guy designated by a green $ icon on your compass. Performing tricks for him will earn you cash. The tricks themselves arent too complicated, but do take more work than the tagger missions. Choose whichever one you want, and head back and talk to Joey B. You'll see the same cutscene, and have the option to either buy the head. Obviously you want to buy the head, so give him the cash. You've just earned whats in the game called a Skate Ranch Piece. When you rebuild the park you'll need the pieces you collected to help build it. You will recieve a text message and the option to return to the Ranch. Heading back to the Ranch will continue the missions, but if you want to free roam for a bit, choose not to return. ========================================== 4.5 Beverly Hills II ========================================== =================================== A Get the 69 Gas Station Sign =================================== Head on over to the Gas Station, its just to the East of the Skate Ranch exit. Murphy will be waiting for you behind the bus. You will have to Spine Transfer (R2) up onto the roof next door and Sticker Slap (x) the gas price sign to knock the sign over. From where you start, immediately hold down X to gain speed, you'll be launched upwards, when you're in the air press R2 to do a spine transfer, then use the wooden ramp on the right side of the roof to do a Sticker Slap. (Wait until you've made contact with the sign and then push X). ================================= B Get the Naked Lady Statue ================================= Useless Dave will be waiting for you outside the Museum. Talk to him to receive your instructions. Now you have to climb over the wall to get past the guards. What should you do? Spine Transfer? Nah the wall is way too high. I know! Climb up the ladder thats conveniently located directly in front of you behind those plants. Once you're inside, break through the two glass walls and drop down into the courtyard and head for the statue. Ollie (X) over the statue to get the key, and when you have it head back towards the gate to let the crew in. Now that you're in you have to get the statue. Grind around the fountain until the timer runs out. When the timer runs out, end the trick and recieve your newest piece. You can either return to the Ranch or get the remaining pieces if you havent already. ========================= C Get the Green Top ========================= Boone will be scoping out a green top for the ranch. He will tie a rope to it, and he'll instruct you to pull it down. This is an extremely simple button mashing mission. In fact you only need to mash one button, X. You have until the timer expires to charge the meter on the screen all the way to the top. Just keep mashing X until its fully charged. Sometimes the screen will move upwards away from you and show the green top shifting position. For this brief period you may stop mashing, but once the screen shows you again, start mashing. Once you're done you have a new addition to the Skate Ranch. ============================ D Get the Metal Awning ============================ Murphy will be waiting for you to the right of the Gas Station. This is where you'll find the perfect grinding piece, a metal awning. You'll have to use the signs on the ground as ramps to get onto the awning. Dont worry about turning around, there are two ramps that will keep you on a straight path back and forth. You need to grind the rails and do the tricks that Murphy will call out to you. You need to complete them before the timer runs out to get the awning. Once you've collected all 3 pieces, you can return to the Skate Ranch to recieve more missions. ========================================== 4.6 Hollywood III ========================================== Just like in the last set of missions, you're objectives will be to acquire pieces for the Skate Ranch. This time your path of destruction will take place in Hollywood. ================================ A Get the Red Velvet Ropes ================================ Meet Duane near the end of the ropes you used to kickflip Whofleck. Security has probably been tightened since your little trick, so you have to ride in a pickup. When the truck is near the ropes, jump out and start grinding, when you get to the end of the ropes, jump back in. Not as easy as it sounds. You need to have fairly good timing. Stay in the truck until you get to the icon telling you to start grinding, jump out and hit Triangle. Now you dont have to worry about the truck, it will either go past you or fall behind. Doesnt matter, just keep grinding until you see an icon that says Jump. You'll only have a second to jump off before you fall off the ropes and get pummeled by security, so make sure you time it right. =================================== B Get the Giant Record Needle =================================== Meet Boone outside Big Buck Records (Just North of where you had the showdown with the punk who punched you). He'll explain that they want to get the big needle on top of the building as a new addition to the Ranch. So do what he says, and follow him directly up the ladder. Once you're at the top, you'll have to grind down the side of the building. So just press Triangle and run down the side of the building and get ready to be dizzy. You only need to grind for a few seconds, but make sure you try and keep your balance. ===================================== C Help Mr. D. Get into Downtown ===================================== Talk to Mr. D. He's trying to get downtown. He can open the entrance but he needs his bag of tricks. Distract the cops by grinding the rail and bank dropping onto the police car. You wont have much time once you start grinding the rail, so just mash Triangle, X and then R2 in quick succession to finish off this mission. After you do this mission, you can now go downtown. ====================== D Get Some Stars ====================== Meet Murphy on the sidewalk just past the area where you stole the ropes. He'll tell you you're going to steal stars from the Walk of Fame. You need to grind the shovels that have been placed under the stars to pry them out of the ground. You can try to do them all in quick succession by skating, jumping, grinding. But that takes great timing. If thats something you dont have, do it my way. Get off your board, walk up to a shovel, jump and grind. Get off, walk, jump, grind, repeat. It'll get all those stars up in a small amount of time without having to retry the shovels you missed. Once thats done the stars will have formed ramps. To get them out of the sidewalk you'll need to Bank Drop them. Just press R2 as you go over the edge of the ramp. =========================== E Get the Radio Tower =========================== Head over to the movie theatre and talk to the attendant. Enter the theatre doors to meet Dave up on the roof. He'll tell you to grind the support wires so you can take the tower back to the Ranch. Jump up and grind either of the two wires, it'll lead you around the tower and back to where you started. You only have to grind for 2 seconds or so, so you shouldnt have to worry about balance. When you're done that you need to footplant the tower. Use the ramp to gain air and when you're about to make contact with the tower, press Down + X to do a footplant to knock the tower over. Now you have to take it down for good. Run or skate to the end of the tower, and jump up on the white ball to do a Natas Spin for a few seconds. ========================================== 4.7 Downtown ========================================== ================================== A Knock The Fire Escape Down ================================== Skitch jorge's car to lip the parts of the fire escape. Skitch the car until prompted to let go. Once in the air, lip trick the various sections starting at the bottom. You have to lip three sections for the fire escape to fall down and Jorge tows it back to the ranch. You dont need to hold down X, because when you let go you'll Ollie, slowing you down. Just tap down on the directional pad or on the left analog stick to let go. ================================= B Smash the Chinatown Tower ================================= *Note - For this mission Master Zen is on the roof, you need to go inside the building marked on your map in order to find him. Grind around the edge of the quarterpipe. At the end, hit the green tower. Then do it again, jumping as you hit the tower. The tower will fly off into space. ======================================= C Help Joey B. Get to the Manhole ======================================= The same guy who sold you the dinosaur for $100 now needs to get to the manhole. However, the street is blocking it. If you can break it up, he can get to the hole. Launch off of the kicker and acid drop onto the ramp near him. Do the trick that he says and then press R2 to acid drop onto the ramp. The angle of takeoff is crucial here. You need to be essentially aiming at the left top part of the kicker to hit the other ramp. Also, if you find that you're not getting enough air, try doing a boneless (up, up, x) off the ramp or changing the time at which you push x to jump off of the ramp. ============================= D Learn the Board Stall ============================= Demonstrate to the master that you can rail stall three times. Use the rails to the left of you. Just skate up it and press and hold R2+Triangle, do this three times. Then stall above the ventura freeway. Transfer from the ramp to the sign and press R2 and triangle when you're about to hit the sign. The sign will fall and open a new area. ========================= E Kick Off the Bell ========================= Murphy wants you to natas spin the bell and then he'll call out tricks as you spin. Then he has you wall plant on the bell and send it flying out into space back to Skate Ranch. ========================== F Loosen the Pyramid ========================== YOu have to climb up onto the building and natas spin on the indicated pyramid. While spinning do the moves that flash on the screen. Once complete, you must once again climb the ladder but this time, you must hit the pyramid with your board. This sends it skyward and presumably to Skate Ranch. =============================== G Learn Special and Focus =============================== Fill your special meter by linking together tricks. Then get focus and keep it for 6 seconds. Then learn the tailblock slide by getting special and pressing down, left, and triangle. Finally get focus and do a 360 hardflip over the trashcan at the end of the rail. Some people have trouble with the hardflips, so heres a piece of advice. remember, you need to be grinding. So from the start, jump up and grind the rail. When you're a few feet away from the dumpster, hit L3 (Press the left analog stick into the controller), and jump and then press the combos for the 360 Hardflip. As long as you make it over the dumpster, you're doing it right. You might not land it, but if you make it over you're on the right track. Just keep doing it, and try different grinding position like the 50-50 or Nosegrind. Eventually you'll land it. Once you have learned Special and Focus, you will be able to go to the Van's Tony Hawk Am. Now head to the green arrow icon in the bottom right of the map, not the one in the top left, that will take you to Hollywood. Skate all the way down the corridor, you'll see a garage door opening at the end. Enter there. ========================================== 4.8 Vans Park ========================================== ==================================== A Get into the Tony Hawk AMJAM ==================================== Go speak to the guy with the pink star over his head. He'll tell you that the registration is full; another guy has just taken the last spot. You'll insult another skater and he'll try to show you up. You have to beat two of his combos. After you beat the combos, he'll try to show you up one more time but will bail at the end. Since he's hurt, you get to take his place in the AMJAM! If you have trouble beating his combos, just go with the stall or liptrick. Keep yourself balanced until you surpass the goal. ===================================== B Pay the Fee and Get Sponsored ===================================== Talk to the AMJAM Judge and pay the $50 entrance fee. Same thing as when you bought the Dino Head, if you've been doing side missions and have the money, pay the man. If not, seek out the tagger or the $ sign guy who will give you money for completing tricks. =========================== C The Tony Hawk AMJAM =========================== The competition is elimiskate, so whoever has the lowest score after each round is eliminated. Remember that if you use moves in the early rounds, the multiplier and score will be lower for them in the later rounds. So if you've got moves that are super high-scoring, you might want to wait until the later rounds. After you win the competition, you will get a text message from Mindy telling you to meet her back at the ranch Go back to skate ranch and see Iggy getting busted. Word got out that Iggy is living there. Now you have to find his other friends. ========================================== 4.9 Skate Ranch II ========================================== While at the ranch, you can find Mindy and try out the new pieces that you've been collecting. -Dinosaur Head -Tower -Ben Whofleck's premier velvet ropes -Hollywood Stars -Broken Floor from Beverly Hills -Concrete ramp -Huge Roll-In -Green Dome kicker -Freeway accident sign -Bell Note: This one is up the steep ramp from where you start. Once you launch off of it, it will send you over the suspended section of the broken floor from Beverly Hills. -Charged up pyramid Note: You will need to do a focus combo here -Piece of road -Fire escape -Big Chinese Tower -Deep pit with a naked lady Note: This one is quite tricky. She is in the bottom of the pit surrounded by spikes. The sides of the pit are surrounded by a rail spiraling downward in a counter-clockwise manner. You should do a few tricks before you jump down onto a natas spin on the lady statue. Once you've spun for a bit, jump back onto the rail - making sure to skate to the right - and grind on up to the top where you can land the trick. If you end up going left, you will be able to get up by constantly wall riding and doing wallies. It will probably take a few tries to get down onto the statue in the first place and a few more to get out of the pit. -Elevated lift to the quarterpipe ========================================== 4.10 Beverly Hills III ========================================== ======================================= A Prove Yourself to the Skateclub ======================================= Find the Skateclub Leader. You want to get into the parking garage. The guy spouts some stuff about corporations and you being the poster boy of evil. To gain acceptance into the skate club, you must renounce the corporations. Then he says you must trick on all of the objects before his stopwatch runs out. The best strategy here is to just find a line of them and grind them. The only objects you need to trick on are glowing so finding them should not be difficult. Easiest way to do this is to get off your board, run to the right to the end of the first glowing object, jump up and grind, when you're nearing the end, jump and grind again, and again. Get off your board. Run to the other side, and do the same thing back to where you started. ============================================== B Learn Flatland from the Skateclub Guys ============================================== Finally you're going to learn flatland tricks. These are basically just little flip/spin things that you do while you're manualing. They are great for increasing multipliers on combos. The leader takes your clothes and says you must never talk about the skateclub. Fight Club reference, anyone? Manual and do the tricks that he calls out. Keep an eye on your balance as the balance meter becomes more unstable with the more tricks you do. Land whenever the balance bar is becoming unstable or you will risk the tricks overwhelming you. ========================== C Distract the Cops! ========================== You're still trying to get past the cops and the parking garage. The Demolition Committee of Project Wasteland is targeting major corporations for destructive operations. Follow the Skateclub guys to the Welshore hotel. This involves skating straight through the middle of the level to the other side. The hotel is located on the opposite side of the block from where you are. To get to the roof of the hotel, spine transfer (R2) off of the quarterpipe near the entrance to the hotel. If you're not going high enough, you're probably not in the right spot; move down to the right a little ways and try again. The top of the hotel is surrounded by quarterpipes. The DCPW has rigged the beams above to fall if they're lipped on. First lip the lower red beam. Then lip the second red beam. This will take a little more speed. Boneless (up up x) if you need even more height. Finally, lip the second red beam again and do the tricks that they call out. The beams will fall down and the cops will rush out of the parking garage, leaving you free to go down. =========================================== D Prove Yourself to the Skateclub V.2 =========================================== Find the Skateclub Leader in the basement. He wants you to try to beat his best flatlanders. Just try to stay in a combo for the entire run. There is some AI here and the game won't just run the score up on you. You need to end the combo to score the points, so keep going until you're sure you have the higher score. Dont break off the tricks until near the end. Beat the first two guys and the leader will bring out the man of flatland himself: Daewon Song. He says that he'll let you win if you just make it look competitive. Beat him like you beat the first two. Some tips for this section: Explore all of the different flatland tricks. Don't forget to try Triangle->Square if you've been doing Square->Triangle. Mix them all in. You can also push Square Square to do a flip for whatever trick you're doing. Also, Triangle Triangle and Circle Circle are tricks as well. ========================================== 4.11 Santa Monica ========================================== To get to Santa Monica skate towards the door at the end of the garage, then skate past the bus to the next open door. ========================= A Get to Alva's Bro ========================= Find Alva's bro up in the courtyard. Grind across from one planter to the other without touching the ground. Okay, just to be clear, you do not jump from one planter to another. Its possible, but very hard. The way you're suppose to do this is jump from planter, to the theatre, to the next planter. If you dont know how to do this, fail the mission and watch Alva's brother do it. Start grinding the rail, and when you make the first turn, ollie off the planter and grind the back of the theatre platform for a split second, before ollying again and hitting the next planter. Make sure you jump as soon as you make the first turn, your momentum will give you a nudge forward and help you hit the stairs, if you jump too late you'll swing around and travel in the wrong direction. When you're grinding the back of the theatre platform, make sure you jump while you're still heading forwards. Same as the first planter, if you jump too late you'll travel in the wrong direction. Then get up to the top of the theater roof without touching the ground. Skate forward, but aim for the ramp, this will launch you into the air. You should see cables running from one end of the courtyard around to the theatre roof. When you're in the air, grind these wires. It'll take you around a corner of the courtyard, there is a broken section here. Ollie to get on the rooftop. Finally get to the dude without touching the courthouse grounds. Do this by starting on the wall to your left. When it curves to the left, jump across the gap. Follow this around and use the same method described above to get to the top of the roof. The guy is standing in the pavilion underneath you. Just get off your board, go over to the side and hang down. Drop onto the floor and go up to him. ============================================= B Ride the Wheel and Scare the Seagulls ============================================= Lip trick on the ferris wheel for a full rotation of the car on which you're riding. Start on a car right at the bottom and just ride it around until you're back at the bottom and it tells you that you can hop off. Next, ride the rail around the end of the pier. The tricky part of this one is timing the jump at the broken portion. As you turn the corner around the shack, you'll be skating on ropes instead of rails, this is your cue to jump off as you near the broken gap. Now you have to scare the seagulls away. First grind the rope on the edge of the pier and scare away all of the seagulls. Dont skate the rail, jump over the rail onto the rope running beside the rail. Then grind the other rope the guy shows you. There is no Skate Ranch piece for this goal. ============================== C Shoot the Valley Kooks ============================== Tony Alva is out in the water with some valley surfers. His buddy has rigged up the telescope into a cannon. Shoot all of the surfers in the water by pressing square. You have unlimited ammo, so just keep firing. Start from the left, there should be 3 surfers on your screen. Take those 3 out first and pan to the right. There should be another 2, take them out as fast as you can, but you may need to move back to the left and get the ones who have climbed back up on their surfboards. ======================================= D Rip out the Steps. Impossible! ======================================= If you are able to get the stairs torn down, the construction worker will take them back to the ranch for you. All you have to do is jump down the stairs while doing a trick. It can be tough to clear them though. Get speed on the quarterpipe behind you. Do a boneless as you take off (try going later and later) and eventually you'll clear them. Then you must do it three more times. Finally you must do a 360 Impossible over the same stairs. If you cant clear the stairs, then there is an easier way to complete this mission. First get off your board or skate to the top of the steps. (Do not go down them). Turn around so you're facing the building, skate up and do a liptrick on the ledge, end the trick and hold down X. When you fall back down and are above the steps, release X and do the Impossible. (Up and Square). Keep doing this every time. ==================== E Shark Attack ==================== Meet mindy near the board shop. She points out the huge shark head statue and wants to grab it for the Ranch. She says to use the kicker next to the shark and acid drop onto the head to shake it loose. You'll be pointed in the right direction and your launch angle off of the kicker isn't a huge deal. Push R2 when you're over the shark head to acid drop onto the shark. Next, she says to launch up and stall (triangle + R2) on the nose to knock it loose. Again, your launch angle isn't crucial off of the kicker. ========================= F Show up 'The Man' ========================= The guy wants you to take down the Skate Park sign so that the Man can see that he ain't the man. Ollie and then grind on the Skate Park Sign. He'll call out tricks as you grind. If you do enough, the sign will fall. The sign is sort of wavy so it will be hard to jump to change your grind. Try to wait until you can see a spot to jump to to change your grind. If you get off of the thing in a place that will be too tough to get back to the kicker, it will return you to the beginning point. Sometimes it's easier to just jump into the water and be returned automatically to the beginning than skate back there and have to line up the ollie. It is also good to wait for certain tricks of the same type to pile up and then get rid of them all at once. The nose bluntslide is a good example of this. ========================== G Tear Down The Roof ========================== Talk to the freaking out kid who just ate 20 sugar packets. He wants to bring down the roof of the theater in the courtyard. Somehow, by cavemanning off of the roof, you can get this to happen. You'll start on your board so hop off (L1+R1) and run to the edge. Jump out and push L1+R1 as you're in the air to caveman onto the ground. Do this three times and the building will collapse. You've got a new piece for Skate Ranch. ==================================== H Bomb the Hill with Tony Alva ==================================== He say's you have to show off some old school skating moves to really impress him. First you have to pogo (triangle triangle while in a manual) down the hill between the cones. For this part, it really helps to have a lot of speed going into the manual. Next, do the same thing with a handstand (circle circle). Finally, you have to bert slide down the entire ramp. This is the tough one. Here are a couple of tips to help: Keep pushing back and forth really quickly to keep your skater from going out of control. If you fail, actually go back and retry the mission rather than wait and keep trying for your timer to run out. If, during the mission, you select retry mission, you will only have to retry the part that you are currently on. This holds for a lot of the missions in THAW. However, if you let the timer run out and fail the mission, you'll have to do the first two parts again. While they're not super hard, this can be a pain. Finally, the game seems to be pretty lenient as to how far down the ramp you can actually start your trick. It may be that you just have to go across the line at the end while doing it for it to register. ============================ I Scare Away the Carny ============================ Before you start this mission, you need to go back to Hollywood to buy the Alien mask. If you try to start the mission without it, Tony Alva will just send you packing. You can hop on the bus to get back to Hollywood. Go to the clothing store (just the normal one - not any special costume store). The alien suit will be listed under "shirts." Buy it for $150. If you don't have enough cash, you can complete some of the really easy tasks from the hobo. Find him by following the dollar sign on your radar. Once you've got the alien suit, ride the bus back to talk to Tony Alva. Create a new grind trick. An easy one that looks pretty cool is just a handstand for the duration or something. Practice using it. Then go and talk to Tony Alva again. He says to pull your crazy trick on the coaster track right in front of the carny to scare him. Watch out for the coaster car though. Do the created trick (default is up, down, triangle) on the track in front of the carny and land it. Next, go to the opposite side of the ferris wheel from where you started the mission to where the carnie was standing. There is a small lever here. Jump up onto it in a natas spin and do the tricks that they call out. If you don't get a trick right in time, it will tell you that you missed it. Keep an eye on your balance as the number of tricks that you pull will decrease the stability of the meter. The ferris wheel will topple into the water, summoning a boat that will take you to the oil rig. Luckily, you'll be automatically changed out of the Alien Suit. You will now have the light bulb icon on your map for a create a trick spot. ============================ J Pay the Ship Captain ============================ The Captain has used up all his gas cruising for the ladies. So he needs to get some more otherwise you are not going anywhere. You need to earn the money and pay the captain to take you to Mega. So if you have the money, pay him. Otherwise you need to earn money by doing the tagger missions or doing tricks for the guy with the $ icon. To get to the ship head to the lower right corner of the map, you'll see a gap in the railing from where the ferris wheel smashed through. Skate on the left side of the broken railing to get to the ship. ========================================== 4.12 Oil Rig ========================================== ======================= A Feed the Shark! ======================= Go find Mega and talk to him. He wants you to help him feed the pet shark. Make a big bang by grinding on the cleat and acid dropping into a grind on the next cleat. Next, grind the coiled cable and jump at the last second to get onto the cable above the water. Grind this out until there is a gap on the wire. The camera angle will change. Just push jump at the top of the bent upwards portion of the rail. You'll fly above the shark and land on the other side. Don't worry about balancing for the rest; the goal is over. ======================================== B Help Mega blow up the USGA$ sign ======================================== Mega wants to rile up the derrick workers so wants you to create some explosions. He has activated the pipes that cause the three pressure release valves to pop up. Take the lift to the upper level. Do this by just skating forward into the lift. Next, fetch the explosives by grinding on the pipes. Start out and grind the pipe in front of you. Then jump up to the steeper angled grey pipe and grind upwards. Once you slow down and turn the other way, you will see the final valve on the same pipe on which you are already grinding. Hit it to trigger the final part of the mission. Grind on the yellow railing in front of you and jump before the gap. When you hit the railing on the tower, the camera angle will change to a far away shot of you spiraling upward. Just keep an eye on your balance until the camera returns to normal. At the end of the pipe, jump and fly towards the USGA$ sign. Wallplant or sticker slap the sign and the explosives will go off. Now Mega is going back to the Ranch to dig up the old green snake. He tells you to pick up some pieces while you're out here anyway. ================================= C Tear Off the Corner Piece ================================= Talk to the worker. There is a problem with a wedge of concrete, grind the rail sequence to knock it free. First start out grinding the yellow rail to your left. Jump where it says jump, make sure you jump before the turn, otherwise you wont be able to land on the gray wedge. You'll go in another direction. Grind the gray wedge all the way around until it says Jump again, when it does, make sure you jump to the left and grind the yellow railing. ================================ D Drop the Grate and Balls ================================ Talk to the welder. He wants you to climb up to the crane to talk to him again. Get off your board and walk up to the ladder. He tells you about his huge skeet ball course that he has created. Skate down the crane and jump off the kicker at the end. Bank drop onto the cup and jump toward the second cup. Bank drop into this one and finally launch yourself at the wall. Wallplant on the wall to complete the goal. ============================ E Destroy the Antennas ============================ The welder has a funny little smiley face [:-[ next to him. He has messed up the antennaes on three ships by sending out a text message with the rig's computer to his internet girlfriend. You need to go out to the end of the scaffold and spine transfer to the boats. Grind out to the end and jump off onto the quarter pipe. Spine transfer down onto the first boat. Then do a series of spine transfers along the boat until you go over the main antenna. You have to be in the middle of the boat for it to register. If you bail, it isn't hard to get enough speed to keep the spine transfers going. Once you've got the first antenna, spine transfer to the other two boats and get the other two the same way. ================================= F Dismantle the Combo Pipes ================================= The tool pusher is mad at the welder who has placed the wheels out on the pipes where he can't get any leverage to turn them. Grind out onto the pipes starting with the one on the right. Get some speed before you do this. As soon as you hit the right hand wheel, ollie over to the middle pipe. Again, as soon as you hit the wheel, ollie over to the leftmost pipe and grind the wheel there. ============================ G Get off the Oil Rig! ============================ Talk to the tool pusher near the top of the rig. The suspended walkways are a problem with the safety inspector. He wants you to get to the helipad by pretending that the walkways are corroded out. Additionally, the elevators are not working so you can't use them either. Simply head directly to your left, and go up the ramp, follow it as it goes towards the left, and you should see the helipad along with red quarterpipes below it, spine transfer using one of the quarterpipes to get on the helipad. Next, spine transfer over the helipad onto the pipe and smash the seal. You'll fall into the pipe - the conduit back to Santa Monica. You'll receive a text message from Mega saying that the crane that he's been using to dig up the snake run is dead. Go back to the Ranch to meet with him. ========================================== 4.13 Skate Ranch III ========================================== At this point, you should go talk to Mindy and do the combos for the various skate pieces that you've picked up since you were last here. -Ferris Wheel -Control Panel from the Oil Rig -Building Chunks -The stairset from Santa Monica -Santa Monica rooftop -Santa Monica Pier Sign -Modified telescope baloon launcher -Oil rig floor -Storage Tanks -USGA$ Sign -Pipe in a hoole -Chunk of Oil Rig (Focus test combo - seems to register without being in focus) =========================== A Help Mega oil the crane =========================== The crane has locked on him and is rusted over. He needs some help getting the crane oiled. Climb up to the top of the crane and press triangle as you're walking on the top of the crane at the indicated spots. It might help to leave your board behind. To get to the top of the crane, once you've climbed the ladder, walk around to the side and jump up. Press R2 to grab a hold of the ledge and then pull yourself up by pressing up. Do this again to get to the top of the crane. Then be careful to not fall of while you're dodging the wires during this part. ========================================== 4.14 Getting to East LA ========================================== *Note - The following mission takes place in numerous cities so are listed under their own section* The Black Widows, a notorious LA street gang have locked up Boone in a tunnel. You need to get past the black widows to get to Boone. Go downtown and follow the red star to where the Black Widows are hanging out near the tunnel entrance. Talk to them and they'll tell you that true taggers are the only ones allowed in the tunnel. First you have to prove yourself to them. If Hector is cool with you, then these guys are cool with you. Before Hector will talk to you, however, you need to get a Black Widow tattoo on your chest. There is a tattoo parlor in Santa Monica where you can get this done. Get on the bus and head down there. The tattoo parlor is in the same row of stores as the skate shop and is marked by a purple icon. Choose the Black Widow tattoo for your chest and go back downtown. Once there, speak to Hector to start your goal. ================================== A Get the Black Widow Tattoo ================================== Hector tells you that to prove that you're a real Black Widow, you must show that you can skate. Manual down through all of the cones. At the bottom of the hill, the path veers right. At the end, it veers left again to complete the goal. Don't forget to watch your balance while you steer. ============================= B Build an All-City Tag ============================= Once this is complete, you have to go and do all of the tags... Downtown tricky tags: -Climb up on the ladder behind the tagger and hang off the edge to tag the spot. -Go up the halfpipe to the ledge. Walk along the ledge to the spot. -Wallrun up the side of the building near the pipe. Grab on the pipe and pull yourself up. Wallrun again and grab the top of the building. Pull yourself up and hit the tag. -Straight across from you in the distance is a building. Use the halfpipe to get up to the second ledge and find the spot up there. The spot is NOT on the hollywood sign. Unlock Downtown Style: Throw-Ups Hollywood tricky tags: -On the floor right in front of you Unlock Hollywood Style: Stencils Beverly Hills: -On the wall next to the tagger -This one is on top of the green glass roof. Get up there using the advertising kicker and then jump off of your board and grab a hold of the blue pipe. Pull yourself up and immediately jump forward onto the platform with himl. The spot will be next to him. -There is a ladder on the back of the orange building by the skate shop that will allow you to climb up to where he is. Again, the spot will be right next to him. Unlocked Beverly Hills Style: Graphics Santa Monica: -Behind him on the ground -On the wall behind him down toward the skate shop -On the ledge above the halfpipe surrounding the cannon Unlocked Santa Monica Style: Tags You can tell which tagging styles you have unlocked by talking to the tagger and designing your own tag. Under graphics, the styles you have unlocked will be listed with the place in parantheses: Stencils (HO), Graphics (BH), Throw-Ups (DT), Tags (SM). Once you have all four styles, create a graphic using at least one graphic from each of the four categories. Return to Hector. He won't be marked on the map but will be by the bus, bike, and skate shop. Once you have the correct tag, you'll have to tag the four spots around the downtown area that Spat has tagged. You'll need to hurry because he'll come along behind you and cover up your tags. You'll likely need to cover each spot twice before you have them all covered at the same time. If you need to, make sure you know the layout of all four and get a strategy for doing them fast before you make a real try at the mission. You can always retry it over and over so doing trial runs is a good thing here. Once you have gotten all of the tags, Hector says that the final challenge for you to do will be on the BMX. Find his buddy to complete it. ============================= C Prove your BMX skills ============================= You need a bike for this mission. You can find one with the bike icon on the map/compass. The first challenge is to do a tabletop (square) off the kicker. Next you must do a crankflip (up with the right stick). The next challenge is to do a tailwhip (left with the right stick). Finally, you must manual down through the cones and do a wallplant off of the wall at the end. The game doesn't seem to be very picky about where you start your manual as long as you're in a manual when you get to the end. The tunnel to East LA is now open. ========================================== 4.15 East LA ========================================== =============================== A Talk to the Black Widow =============================== Talk to the cholo outside of a store. He tells you about the guy that they beat down (Boone) and shows you his pants that they strung up. You have to board whack the three sprinklers and then grind Boone's pants off of the wire. It can be frustrating here to even find the sprinklers and the board whack doesn't seem to register every time. In the median of the road is a grass area with a green pipe running along it. The sprinklers are the red things sticking out of it. They're hidden by the grass to some extent. Keep whacking with your board (circle) and hopefully you'll hit them. Once you've hit all three, go back up to the top and grind the green pipe down and jump onto a grind on the spear of the statue. This somehow animates the statue and he throws his spear setting off a bizarre series of events that open a hole in Boone's cave. ============================== B Save Boone in East LA! ============================== Find Boone in his tunnel and talk to him through the broken slats. Break the wood open a little more with board whacks (circle while on foot). Then he says to throw him your board (square). This might take a few tries but just keep pressing square and throwing him boards until it registers. He'll hop on and jump out of the now huge hole in the wood into the canal. There will now be several mission options available to you. For this section of the game, the level titlers seem to be enamored of using exclamation marks. **After one of these goals, you'll get a text message from Mega saying that some crazy moron is trying to commandeer his crane. He wants you to come back to the ranch and get the guy off his rig. =========================== C Take the bum's bed! =========================== Dave wants you to take the bum's mattress so that you can have a bed at Iggy's. Apparently, by acid dropping onto it, you somehow get to keep it. Grind on the railing and jump to the yellow pipe. At the end, launch off and acid drop onto the red square. This might take a few tries to get it all lined up. If you're not getting enough air, wait until the very last moment to jump and you'll get a big boost. The bum will be sent catapulting into the air and will also destroy a burned out car. The car parts are now scattered around East LA. You need to find and collect them before the Black Widows come looking for them. This just involves starting a combo by grinding on the curb at the first one and keeping the combo going all the way to the bottom to complete the goal. ===================== D Chopper drop! ===================== To get to this challenge, go through the grate door that is at street level and be transported to the roof. Talk to Boone. Jump up onto the helicopter by jumping near the runner and pressing R2. Wait for it to fly to the first spot. Drop down onto the bank and drop onto the shack by pressing R2. The Black Widows will be pissed that you're stealing it but by busting the flatland tricks in a manual on the top of the shack as it's suspended from the chopper should impress them enough. Finally jump off the small kicker and do a bank drop onto the couch. ====================================== E Grab the Coyote Runner's sign! ====================================== Talk to Murphy and watch Boone eat it on the Coyote Runner's sign. Skate off of the kicker and press R1&L1 to get off your board in mid air. Grab a hold of the sign by pressing R2. If you get too low, jump up to the higher part of the sign. Then grind the sign by jumping off of the kicker. Finally, wallplant the sign to get it to fall. ========================================== 4.16 Skate Ranch IV ========================================== When you get back, you can take the opportunity to do the combos on the newly acquired pieces. Talk to Mindy to do these: -Murphy's Bail Bonds Limo -The Couch -Car Parts -Tool Shed -East LA Sign ========================================= A Keep the repo man away from Mega! ========================================= Talk to Murphy to start this challenge. The repo man keeps trying to climb up the crane. Launch balls at him to keep him off of the crane until Murphy can find enough money to pay off his boss. Once you hit him enough times, he will fall off. This part is kinda hard. You just need to track him steadily up the ladder and make sure that almost all of the balls hit him. There is a little counter at the bottom left of the screen showing you how many you have over how many are needed. Once he falls off, take the bag of money to Hollywood to pay off the boss. You'll get a call from Iggy. You need to get back to the ranch and keep them from digging up the snake run. =============================================== 4.17 Impress the Pros: Beverly Hills =============================================== ======================================== A Get Tony Hawk To Be in the Video ======================================== Find Tony Hawk near the stores in the middle of the level. After you talk some smack to him (you're a little punk!), you'll go up to the roof of the hotel and he'll show you an airwalk/spine transfer. You just need to do the same thing. Get some speed on the quarterpipe and spine transfer with an airwalk over the large pile of rubble to the right. If you just transfer over the area linking the two areas, the transfer won't register for the goal. Next, he shows you the Frontside Hurricane. This is left+triangle+triangle. Grind along the entire length of the stairs. The triik might not register so you may have to do it a few times. It might also not register if it is a FS Hurricane rather than a BS Hurricane. Next, he'll show you a gymnast plant. To do this, just do an inverted lip trick (Down+Triangle) on the ledge and then press Circle+Circle to switch to a gymnast plant. You don't have to hold it for any set amount of time. Finally, he'll show you the 900. Spine transfer over the place indicated and press left then right + circle in the air. You may have to get special before you do this. If the trick isn't registering, you should try to get special and try it out on just the normal quarterpipe where you start. After you complete this goal, there will be goals available in all of the major city locations. These can be done in any order. ============================================ B Impress Deawon So He Joins The Cause ============================================ To convince him to be in the video, you need to double bluntslide the ledge (Down+Left+Triangle+Triangle) and heelflip (Right+Square) into a manual. =========================================== 4.18 Impress the Pros: Hollywood =========================================== ======================================= A Get Rodney Mullen In Your Video ======================================= Talk to Ian outside the school to start this goal. He introduces you to Rodney Mullen. First, he wants you to perform 10 unique tricks over the stairs. If you are having trouble thinking of unique tricks, remember that double tapping buttons will make you do different tricks. Then, you need to design your own trick. Talk to Ian again after you've become very good at throwing your trick quickly. You need to pull it three times in thirty seconds. Make sure you have special before you talk to Ian. ========================================= B Get Andrew Reynolds In Your Video ========================================= First follow Andrew's line to Bronson Park. The pieces you need to hit are glowing yellow. Once there, You will need to take a huge combo into the cave to explode the Hollywood sign. The cave is to the right as you're going up the hill from the main Holllywood area. Get a big combo by manualling and doing flatland tricks after you've busted some huge airs. Manual into the cave (walking while extending your combo multiplier might work too) and you'll be shot out through the sign while it explodes. If it doesn't explode, your combo wasn't big enough. ========================================== 4.19 Impress the Pros: Downtown ========================================== ========================================= A Help Mike V Get Some Sick Footage ========================================= He wants you to do some tricks for his photographer so he can see if you're legit. You have to do these tricks down the stair set in front of the fountain. As you pull the trick, the camera will go into a strange "photo" mode and it will be hard to see what you're doing. Just press the correct button combo and don't worry about looking at it. First land a Triple Impossible (Up+3square). Next, a triple kickflip (Left+3square). Finally, land a triple heelflip (Right+3square). ============================================= B Help Paul Rodriguez Get Back His Gear ============================================= A shipment of his shoes has gotten scattered out of a delivery truck. You need to collect them all before the time runs out. Skate along the pipe between the road and the lower road. Jump across the cross street and continue on the pipe on the other side. Grind around the corner and jump to the curb and again to the halfpipe. Jump into a manual and cross the street to the left. Grind on the far side along the raised concrete section. At the end of this, jump to the yellow fence to the left. Then jump down into a manual and go over to the yellow fence past the boxes on the ground. Grind on the yellow fence around the corner. Just past the corner, jump to the left and up onto a grind on the concrete wall. Grind around the corner onto the awning and further onto the pipes. ===================================== C Photo Gaps with Tony Trujillo ===================================== He needs some sweet footage for Vans. First he needs you to do some grab tricks over a gap. First a melon, then a nosegrab, and finally a tailgrab. Grind the railing and hit ramp at the end. Launch over the sidewalk in slow motion and pull your trick. Land in a grind on the other side. Next, you have to pull a series of spines in one combo. As soon as you land, revert (R2) into a manual and hit the next spine. If you fail the combo, you'll have to do the entire goal over again. =========================================== 4.20 Impress the Pros: Vans Park =========================================== ======================================== A Help Ryan Sheckler Drop The Jeep ======================================== Jump out the window onto the yellow awning. Go straight toward the middle of the girders and grind the pipe in the middle. Grind around the corner and jump to the next pipe. Continue grinding around the next corner and jump off to the left onto the sloping beam. Grind upwards until you lose speed and start going down. Grind downwards and you'll be directed onto another wire heading towards the jeep. Once you're heading towards the jeep, jump onto the round thing above it and natas spin. Hold the spin for a few seconds and the goal will be complete. ========================================== B Show Mat Hoffman You've Got Skills ========================================== To impress Mat, you've gotta show off your BMX skills. First, you have to do three flairs. To do a flair you need to do a backflip and a 180 while in the air. Don't try to just pull backwards on the stick to do a backflip. It won't work. Push L2 while pulling back on the stick to do a backflip in the air. Also give it a push right or left to do the 180. It might take a few tries to get this one down. Next you need to tire tap and do a decade. Press R2 while you're in the air and then once you're in a tire tap, press either right or left on the right stick. Finally, you need to do some doubles tricks with Hoffman on your board and you on his bike. He'll skate back and forth int he halfpipe and do short liptricks. You'll need to do a number of unique tricks on the bike in the air over him while he is in the lip trick. Timing on this one is crucial. Get into his rhythm and try to launch as he's getting on the lip. Once you've done enough unique tricks (up, down, left or right on the analog stick to name a few), he'll agree to be in your video. You have a lot of time for this goal so hopefully if you get synched with him, it won't be a problem. Remember, if you're getting close to failing the time limit, just retry the goal before you fail it so you don't have to do the first parts over again. ============================================== 4.21 Impress the Pros: Santa Monica ============================================== ================================== A Doubles with Bob Burnquist ================================== First, you need to hold a lip trick on the ramp while Bob does a trick over you. Any lip trick will work here. Next, you need to find Bob. He'll have a pink star that you can find on your compass and will be standing outside of the tattoo shop. After you talk to him, you'll need to trick over him while he is holding a lip trick. After you do this, he'll run off to the end of the pier. Find him here for the final trick. You'll need to grind the pipe out to the building on the end of the pier and get into a lip trick. You'll be interrupted by a cutscene after you get into your lip trick. After the cutscene, you'll see a balance meter again. Hold the trick until he tricks over you. Land it to complete the goal. ====================================== B Show Tony Alva You're Hardcore ====================================== You have to ride in the bowl and do the tricks he calls out. For the first part, you just have single tricks to pull. For the second, you have to do two at once. For the third, he gives you a list of tricks you need to pull in one combo. If there are too many, you could try retrying the goal to see if you get a bunch that are the same. Link them together using revert to manuals. ========================================= 4.22 Impress the Pros: East LA ========================================= ==================================== A Nollies With Stevie Williams ==================================== To impress him, you have to do a nollie (press L2 before you jump) from one kicker to another. It won't register if you are even a little bit short (even if the gap registers). For all of these challenges, if you're running short on time, just retry the challenge from the start menu. That way you won't have to repeat some of the more annoying jumps so far in the game. Just try jumping later if you're having trouble clearing the gap. Next, you have to nollie and then hardflip (up + left + square) over the gap to the storage container. Again, if you're having trouble hitting this gap, try jumping later and experimenting with your angle of takeoff. Next, you have to nollie hardflip over another gap, land in a manual along the roof and jump to the other side. Next, do a nollie plus triple heelflip (Right+3square) off the ramp on the roof onto the ramp on the street. This can be a really hard jump to make. Don't use the angle at which you're started facing. Instead make sure you launch of the furthest, highest section of the ramp in the correct direction to hit the ramp below. Finally, you have to pull a boned ollie over the gap onto the storage shed. First jump over the small gap and follow the wall around the curve. Jump off of the roof extension and press x again while you're in the air. This should be done pretty quickly after you've taken off. You can practice the timing on the first little jump. Your jump should be essentially perpendicular to the edge of the roof extension. If you follow the curve of the wall closely, you'll come out at the right angle to make this gap. ===================================== B Bam Margera's Crazy Challenge ===================================== To impress him, you have to first do (what he says is a switch) backside tailslide (Right and triangle) down the ledge. Next do a backflip (circle+down+down) over him while he holds a liptrick. Finally, you have to do a stall (triangle+R2) a moving shopping cart. Hold the stall while the cart races down the hill. Once it hits the bottom, the goal will be complete. This will open up a mission (Pay the Taco Truck Girl) to get to the casino. ============================== C Smash Into the Casino! ============================== Talk to the Taco Truck girl and pay her $100 to smash down the gate to the casino. ========================================== 4.23 Casino ========================================== ============================== A Aim At the Old Ladies! ============================== Use the modified telescope airgun to shoot the old ladies that showed up at the casino. Not very difficult. Just keep firing away at them. ====================================== B Transfer Your Special to Boone ====================================== All you have to do here is keep getting special and transferring it to Boone by pressing circle when there is a little dialogue box telling you to. By far, the easiest way to do this is to keep busting flatland tricks until your special meter is full and then landing them and transfering the special to Boone. You can stay right next to him this way and his meter will never be in danger of falling. Also, getting special doing flatland tricks is very easy; it shouldn't take more than a few tricks to have the special meter glowing. =================================== C Knock Down the Flood Light! =================================== Iggy wants the floodlight for the ranch. You have to do here is do a vert wallplant on the lights above the pool. They will be directly behind where you are facing when you start the goal. Just get up a ton of speed here and get up to them. Do a vertical walplant (Up+Triangle) when you get up to them. If you're having trouble getting enough air, try a boneless or try to go through the black door up to the roof and acid dropping into the pool. Next, you have to do a To-Tail when you're on the way down. The lights will be lower here so it should be much easier to get enough air to reach them. On the way back down past them, press down+triangle to hit them with the tail of your board. ========================== D Get the Triple 777 ========================== First, jump onto the glowing wire in front of you and do a stall (R2+Triangle). Do the trick modifiers that Murphy calls out. Finally, grind up the wire and around the 777 machine seven times. =================================== E Wreck the Trippy Pool Thing =================================== Iggy wants the crazy thing that's hanging over the pool for the ranch. First, climb up the diving board and acid drop into the pool below. Then spine transfer into the next pool. Finally you have to stall (R2+triangle) on the wire above. ================================== F Spine Over David and Boone ================================== First, you have to spine over Dave and do a kickflip. Then spine from that pool over Boone doing a triple kickflip. ========================== G Grab All the Chips ========================== You have to collect all of the casino chips before the time runs out. It is best to do the first roof section in one big combo. You have a TON of time to complete this goal so just be patient. Start off grinding on the wall. Jump to the light fixture and then over to the right side of the catwalk. Jump from the catwalk to another catwalk. Grind all the way around the end and around another arm until you have to jump to a new catwalk. Grind around this catwalk until this area is clear. Then ride up the other set of escalators (not the ones with Murphy at the top) and into the area beyond. There will be a number of chips here. Then go into the elevator and explore the roof area. The rest of the chips will be up here scattered around. The one that is hard to find is in the air way above one of the pools. ========================================== 4.24 The Final Mission ========================================== When you return to East LA, it will automatically trigger a cutscene and a goal. You'll need to get back to the Ranch while avoiding the cops. If you try to go some way that you're not supposed to, the cops will just push you to the ground. Grind the pipe leading over the hill. You'll be flung into East LA. From here, ride down the street down the hill and duck into the ditch on either the right or the left side of the street, avoiding the cop. Go into the entrance leading back to downtown. Follow the red star through downtown and go down the escalators into the Hollywood tunnel. From there, follow the red star up the escalators and over to the escalators to beverly hills. Skate down the block to the entrance to skate ranch. Skate up the skate ranch tunnel to the ranch. Congratulations, you've just finished Story Mode! ========================================== 4.25 Skate Ranch V ========================================== Triple 7: You have to jump onto the upper ring and grind on it for it to register this piece. Rails: From the weird pool piece Spotlight: Bank-Roulette wheel ========================================== 5. Classic Mode ========================================== **NOTE - In Classic Mode several of the goals will be combo goals, because we cannot walk you through combos, you will have to do it yourself. The goals will be listed but not explained. Also note that you do not need to complete ALL the goals within the time limit. You can complete some, and then get the rest later* =================== Minneapolis =================== Goals: 10 Gaps: ??? Stats: 5 ====== Combos ====== High Score - 30 000 Points Pro Score - 60 000 Points Sick Score - 100 000 Points High Combo - 10 000 Points ===== Goals ===== 1. -> + O over the Fountain. The Fountain is just North of your starting point in the pit. 2. Jump over the red carpet using the combo Up & Left on the D-Pad + Square. ===== SKATE ===== S. From where you start, jump the ramp on the left to recieve the S. K. From where you start, keep heading down the same road to grab the K. T. Head South facing the billboard over the fountain to find the T above a quarterpipe. E. From where you found the 3rd Stat Point (Face the billboard near the fountain, head South on the street to your left), keep heading South. Jump the truck to get the letter E. =========== Stat Points =========== 1. From where you collect the S, head to the right to see a Stat Point above the end of the ramp. Jump the ramp and collect it. 2. From the fountain, head up to the billboard to the North, a Stat Point is directly in front of it. 3. Facing the billboard, start going south on the street to the left of you. On this street you will find another Stat Point. 4. Across the street from the red carpet you will see a billboard for Tony Hawk's Demolition Radio. Over the barrier is another Stat Point. ======== Barriers ======== 1. Beside the T is a barrier. Ollie over it. 2. Across from the red carpet where you also found a Stat point is the barrier. ========================================== 8. Frequently Asked Questions ========================================== What are the differences between the Collectors Edition and the regular version? You get two secret characters. 80's Tony Hawk and 70's Tony Alva. You also get two exclusive classic mode levels (Marseilles from THPS2 and Atlanta from THUG2 Remix), plus a box cover, and a 'making of' feature with concept art. Why do Sponsor Challenges max out at 40/70? No one is quite sure of this right now. But the theory is that you were only intended to gain one stat point for each challenge but instead you would sometimes gain two stat points, and when you earned all your points, the challenges stopped. Which screwed up the totals. Do you know of any cheat codes like perfect balance or infinite specials? No one currently knows of any cheat codes for the game. When cheat codes are found, if any even exist, they will be posted on GameFAQs.com It wont let me into any of the shops? What do I do? Not being allowed into a shop is a common glitch in this game and there are 3 ways to fix this. 1) The most obvious option is to restart your console and hope it fixes itself. 2) The best option is to first save the game under a new file name, and then try loading that. 3) If those two fail, you may just have to restart your game from a new file. ========================================== 9. Glitches ========================================== If you fail the mission by running out of the area during the "Change Your Clothes" mission, talking to Mindy will fail you for not having completed the mission. The problem with this is that you will *always* fail and not be able to restart the mission. This is a random glitch, so be careful. Its not a loss if you have to restart the game. During the first mission with the graffiti artist, sometimes trying to create your own tag, and then trying to talk to the tagger will result in a game freeze. In the "Get the Green Top" mission in BH, the mission will sometimes end before the meter is full. When buying the Alien Suit for 'Scare Away The Carny', it will not allow you to purchase the suit if you have exactly $150. ========================================== 10. Contact/Legal Information ========================================== Questions/Comments/Suggestions? Then please email BOTH of us. 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