AbstractGet hold of the wildest, one of the most critically acclaimed skateboarding title ever with TONY HAWK'S PRO SKATER 2. In THPS 2, you're truly spoiled with a massive selection of professional skaters, parks, tricks, modes, and tunes. You can play as Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Steve Caballero (among others), perform tons of killer tricks, create your own skaters and skate parks, compete in solo or two-player competition, and listen to pounding music from rock gods like Rage Against the Machine and Papa Roach. TONY HAWK'S PRO SKATER 2 sets a new standard in skateboarding gameplay.
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Mild Animated Violence
Mild Language |
Full descriptionWhile Tony Hawk's Pro Skater put extreme sports on the videogame map, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 redefined an already great game. Its addition of stellar new features (like Create-A-Park), and great gameplay tweaks (the manual maneuver will be copied for years to come) made it the best installment in a killer series of games. Anyone who has ever skated the Philadelphia level will agree -- this game is a masterpiece of level design. Hell, it's a masterpiece all around. There isn't a bad park or dull moment, just pure gaming nirvana. Developed by Neversoft Entertainment, THPS2 came out in 2000 across a range of platforms.
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Game Features:
- Customized 3D Skate Park
- Create-A-Skater
- Expanded Tricks and Controls
- Additional Multiplayer Modes
- Music Soundtrack and In-Game Licenses
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AmazonTony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, with all of its new additions, is basically more of the same stuff that players saw in the first
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater--which is not a bad thing at all. Those who loved the first will especially love all of the new skate parks, with their hidden areas that can be unlocked by performing certain tricks. For instance, on the first stage, players will have to grind across an airplane propeller to get the thing to twirl, which opens a hangar door. There also are some neat little touches to the levels, like a hall monitor who races around in a golf cart at the high school.
Neversoft, the developer of the first Hawk game, really deepens this installment by challenging players with 10 objectives per level. Now, not only do players have to find hidden tapes and reach high scores by doing tricks, they have to jump certain gaps, as well as collect items and cash. This kept us playing some levels for hours before completing the majority of level objectives--and even then there were some objectives, like achieving a "sick" score, that we couldn't quite manage.
The levels are set up to allow some clever trick combinations, and players even can create their own skate parks by choosing from over a hundred props, including ramps, rails, and pools. Also fun is creating a skater from scratch, and determining his weight, attire, and skills, which can be improved by earning cash in career mode.
Like the last game, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 dips into the worlds of hip-hop, rap, and punk rock for its soundtrack, although many of the songs are recognizable and pretty old--this loses some of the freshness that the soundtrack had on the original. And that describes the game in a nutshell: not as fresh, but still an extreme amount of fun. --Robb Guido
Pros:
- More objectives per level than previous game
- 13 pro skaters, with different outfits and boards
Cons: - Soundtrack lacks freshness of original
- More of same stuff we saw in original
13 pro skaters; variety of tricks and moves; create a skater and a park; variety of player and game options; fast framerate and gameplay; two-player gameplay
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