Tony Hawks Project 8 [360]

[Geoff D]

Geoff, you need to get your half mil combo on Free Skate mode for the achievement. Same with the 1million run and two of the secret achievements.

Ah, that explains that then - cheers Hulk. I haven't played free skate yet; is it the standard 2 minute mode?

[Hulk Davidson]

Ah, that explains that then - cheers Hulk. I haven't played free skate yet; is it the standard 2 minute mode?

No problems, yeah you need to go into free skate then select Start Run to begin the 2 minute skate.

The 2 secret achievements in this mode are

->Open Spoiler<-

5 million combo and 10 million point run

[Extra Terrestrial]

The 2 secret achievements in this mode are

->Open Spoiler<-

5 million combo and 10 million point run

I was extremely brilliant at THPS3 but even I find that hard to do.

I managed to get 3 million and there was 15 seconds left so I kept going and unfortunately bailed to show up just over 1 million so I think I can do it one day but the analogue stick is not always as responsive or natural as using the PS2 d-pad.

Also, does anybody think that the Slums and Factory is a bit... ****? I actually forced myself to get through the goals especially in Slums as over half of them are the pointless Jackass style goals, which I happen to detest.

[cohen205]

Hulk,

A tip for grinding the entire rollercoaster, get your special bar up, and go into slow motion to grind it. Its much easier slowed down.

[Extra Terrestrial]

A tip for grinding the entire rollercoaster, get your special bar up, and go into slow motion to grind it. Its much easier slowed down.

The Focus mode in other words.

[cohen205]

Thats it - totally forgot what it was called.

[Hulk Davidson]

Hulk,

A tip for grinding the entire rollercoaster, get your special bar up, and go into slow motion to grind it. Its much easier slowed down.

Nice one I'll try this. Haven't used Focus at all really so far, I'm sure it will help out with a lot of the challenges when used properly.

[Yoshimax]

Yeah focus deffo helps but it's hard to remember you have it Some of the challenges in this are brick hard - I'm assuming going back to them with increased stats is the way to go ?

[cohen205]

I reckon thats the answer, but I think a third hand is needed for some of the 'sick' tasks.

[venom743]

Well, panicing that my 360 was on the blink I tried a few other titles. Did the DOA test (whereby you leave DOA running the demo until it locks up my faulty machine used to consistently lock up runnning this), tried Oblivion as well as a few other titles and there were no problems.

Popped TH back in the tray and decided to clear the cache, after that it seems to be working fine, played for a good couple of hours whereas as prior to that it was locking ever half hour.

There is definitely a bug though, more than a few people are reporting freezing online and off.

My copy keeps freezing, too!
How do you clear the cache by the way?

[P-Dogg]

Apparently this has been patched and it fixes the poor framerate.

Haven't tried it myself yet.

[MonkeyWrench]

Excellent, I will fire it up shortly.

[Revolution6000]

I haven't played the game in a few weeks so I can't comment on if it fixed the slowdown or not, but it did seem to fix online. Tried to play a few games and got into them everytime.

[MonkeyWrench]

Got the update, it does indeed improve the framerate, but it looks like they've locked it at 30fps. There's still a bit of jittering when loading in the different areas but its nowhere near as bad as it used to be.

[Yoshimax]

yep got patch earlier deffo more stable