The tour goes to real world locations like Boston, Santa Cruz, Australia, New Orleans, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Kyoto, Berlin, and Skatopia and more, with the two teams competing for points by doing silly and dangerous stunts.
The skaters then split into two teams, Team Hawk and Team Bam, and you are picked last out of the group, but joined Team Hawk. The main goal of the World Destruction Tour is to create havoc, create chaos and have a good time. Then, Bam Margera and Tony Hawk appeared and explained their plans for the first annual World Destruction Tour, a "sick-as-hell" around-the-world skateboarding tour that they both put together and the kidnapped skaters will get the opportunity to join. Inside, you find other skaters who have been kidnapped too such as Eric Sparrow (The player's rival), Mike Vallely, Wee Man, Paulie Ryan, Rodney Mullen, Bob Burnquist, Chad Muska, Eric Koston, and the Player as well. The game starts when your created skater (or the default) is seen ripping it up at a local spot of New Jersey, a level from the previous game, then, a mysterious van raced upon the player and the player was promptly smashed and tossed into the Van by two bloody-masked costumed kidnappers.
You begin the game by creating a character, or using the default created skater from the previous game. This game is very similar to Tony Hawk's underground 2, except that there are some events that are very and vastly different than the original game.