Toxic Grind is an extreme sports game released by THQ

THQ

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 in 2002 for the Xbox

Xbox

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. It was originally planned for the Nintendo GameCube

Nintendo GameCube

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 and PlayStation 2

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 as well, but was cancelled.

Story

The story behind Toxic Grind is that in the future, skateboarding

Skateboarding

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 is a crime as well as BMX biking

BMX

Bicycle motocross or BMX refers to the sport in which the main goal is extreme racing on bicycles in motocross style on tracks with inline start and expressive obstacles, and it is also the term that refers to the bicycle itself that is designed for dirt and motocross cycling.- History :BMX started...

 and inline skating

Inline skating

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. Violators of the law are sentenced to appear on the world's number-one game show, Toxic Grind, where failure means death. Unfortunately, the game show is so unfair that all the contestants die almost immediately. Eventually, this lack of a struggle causes the show's ratings to tumble. Therefore, to boost ratings, the show's host decides to reach into our present (their past) and kidnap one of the world's best freestyle BMX riders for his show.

Gameplay

Toxic Grind is a fairly conventional extreme sports game that plays much like the rest of its contemporaries. You'll be able to execute vert tricks, grinds, wallrides, and so on, and each trick will earn you points. If you string together a number of successful tricks, you'll be able to pull off special adrenaline tricks for even bigger points. Scoring points comes into play most heavily in the rider battles, which are decided purely on that basis, though you'll also see some score goals in the game's more conventional levels. The rest of the goals are pretty standard for the genre. You'll collect letters to spell words, perform specific tricks on specific level objects, and so on.

External links

• Official Toxic Grind website
• http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/sports/toxicgrind/index.html?q=Toxic%20GrindToxic Grind at GameSpot
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