Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, often abbreviated to THAW, is a video game that was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube on October 18, 2005. An Xbox 360 version was released a month later, on the 22nd of November and a Microsoft Windows port was issued on February 6, 2006.
Part of the Tony Hawk series, the game was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision.
The PC version of the game was ported and published by Aspyr. Tony Hawk's American Wasteland is the first Tony Hawk game to support Xbox Live; online play was previously limited to the PlayStation 2 and PC. The Nintendo DS version of this game, Tony Hawk's American Sk8land, features Wi-Fi capabilities. It is the first third-party DS game to have online support. A Game Boy Advance version of the game was released as well under the same name.
The opening song of the game is California Über Alles by Dead Kennedys.
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