Tony Hawk's Proving Ground

"Proving Ground DS manages to cram a ton of content onto a DS cartridge, including touch-screen tricks and goals that require the use of the stylus, a lot of unlockable content like skate lounge items and pro videos as well as secret skaters, and more. Some of the lame things in past games, like their cheap custom skater modes, have been improved (although the new create-a-skater still doesn't allow a huge amount of customization). It's a loaded game, but I can't help feeling like it's a little too familiar"

More variety, more customization, and better multiplayer make this the best portable Tony Hawk game yet.

Tony Hawk's Proving Ground now attempts a more realistic look for its visuals, instead of the cartoony cel-shaded appearance of the previous two games. The detail is really sharp, and the game still runs at the abnormally smooth 60 frames per second rate…something the console games have abandoned since Project 8. You still can't build a park from scratch -- instead, like in American Sk8land, you're earning money to buy items that'll be used in customizing a skate park in specific locations.