RAD episode 229-Tony Hawk Underground

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In today’s edition of RAD we take another at yet another Birdman…namely TONY HAWK! That’s right we are taking a look at one of Mike’s favorite games from the Xbox/Ps2 era with Tony Hawk Underground. Do you have what it takes to rise from the ranks of street skater to the very top with the likes of Eric Koston,Bam Margera and Rodney Mullen? T.H.U.G takes you through a story with your custom created skater on your way to the top of skater world with a few bumps along the way with your friend Eric. It’s time to put some fresh grip tape on your board and tighten your trucks as we head back out onto the concrete sea with our boards.

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Mike Dodd is the guy who always said video games could be turned into a profession and eventually it turned out he was right. Mike is a passionate nerd about all facets of nerd culture from the love of the BBC’s Doctor Who to the very latest in the fight game scene, he’s on to it and likely turned into his new obsession. Dodd was raised to love all things that were pop culture from viewing his first horror movie at five years old to owning one of the first Nintendos in North America, it’s been a childhood dominated by the controller and movie screens and he couldn’t be happier. Roleplaying games such as Dungeons and Dragons dominated the high school years and unhealthy doses of Japanese anime were frequent as he completed his education and took sometime off to explore Canada and the US. However as all good times must come to an end, a decision was made to get some experience and do something fun and learn something and meant getting involved in the media. Mike volunteered with Rogers Television and became the audio/technical director for several successful programs and decided that he should further that experience by going to college. 4 years and several massive headaches later, Mike became known as “The Birdman” of This week in Geek but that is a story for another website….

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  1. December 13, 2011 at 02:07am
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    I LOVE the Tony Hawk games (up until Project 8). Easy gameplay for just picking up and playing and yet with some skill, you can do some crazy shit.

    My liking of them would be ranked: THUG, THPS3, THUG2, THPS4, THAW, THPS2, THPS

    Of course, the amazing soundtrack. Albeit, THAW was the weakest for featuring Fall Out Boy and Green Day, but it still had some good songs (Live Wire & Image of the Invisible).

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      I’d say our ranking is very close actually.
      I loved THUG and played it endlessly after work all those years ago.
      Such good times

      AW felt to me like an afterthought because they jammed so much into it and the soundtrack lacked the passion and the connection to the culture I felt.
      Still I was glad they had a rise against track in it but I felt that CKY should have been a continued presence in the series

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    THPS4 and THUG 2 were my fav.

    • December 12, 2011 at 11:32pm
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      Fantastic sound tracks in those games too!
      I think I covered THPS4 earlier this year too.

      I really hope the new TH games bring back the styling of these games and just as fun

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