Paul "P-Rod" Rodriguez Jr. Grinds into Tony Hawk Project 8 |
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20-year old Latino skateboarder Paul "P-Rod" Rodriguez Jr. has secured a place in the latest Tony Hawk Game (PS2, PS3, PSP, X360 Xbox) today as he takes the giant leap from real-life boarding to the the virtual world of videogaming in Tony Hawk Project 8. "P-Rod" is of Mexican-American descent and is a well-known professional skateboarder in the business, making a name for himself in world of action sports and now in videogames.
P-Rod was crowned as TransWorld SKATEboarding magazine's "Rookie of the Year" and went on to win Gold Medals for the X-Games Men's Skateboard Street Category in 2004 and 2005 after turning professional in 2002; a feat that makes him more than worthy of a place in the most popular skateboarding video games franchise on the planet.
In an interview with HispanicWire the skateboarding legend revealed a bit about the game's development itself. While P-Rod was featured in Tony Hawk's Underground (THUG) and Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, Tony Hawk Project 8 is the one which astonished him the most technology-wise.
Here's what Rodriguez said: "In addition to doing a voice-over session, this time around I had to go in and get my face and body scanned. I also had to get into the funny motion-capture suit and skate so that my skating could be put into the game. I was blown away by the technology and it's eerie how real it all looks." With the amount of platforms this game is reaching, lets hope that the gameplay will blow us away in the same way that P-Rod was.
Buy: [Tony Hawk Project 8]
Via HispanicWire
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Comments [refresh]
Aren't you tired of playing ***** tony hawk 27?
Cuz I am.
Enough of this bull*****, please give us some nice, entertaning, new and original games!, we are tired of the same ***** over and over again, aren't we?
Actually "Project 8" is what you are saying: "...nice, entertaning, new and original..."
I too did not play last 2 versions of THPS for redundent reasons, but I will buy the game at the PS3 release.
They are using a different engine as well as tilt technology, late flipping actions and you're still complaining? whatever. I'm glad there at lease improving their concept... since they signed a contract till 2015 ... that means THPS 17 or what not.
Also, a new game is comming, project name "Skate". Check it out ... seems more skatable, no what I mean?
Anyways, peace
Who cares what console sells more and I stll bet it will be the PS3. But what matters is what's in the console and what it can do and it's about the games.
Posted in the wrong news lol.
I'm still playing Tony Hawk! It's still a freakin' awesome game!!!
PAUL RODRIGUEZ IS 21 NOT 20 THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND TONY HAWK GAMES WILL ALWAYS BE IN STYLE