Skate 2 is hard to describe, because you have to buy it just to see how amazing it is. Skate 1 was a really good game, and started the revolutionary new way at creating skating games. In Skate 2, you are the revered skater that you turned into in the first game, but you just got out of prison, and, must start all over again. The game's best new feature is the walking mode, where you can just jump off of your board, move things around, and walk or jump to difficult spots. The hall of meat has been revamped into this new, hardcore, bonebreaking machine, where you don't just go limp after being hit by a car, you get thrown, and you can even control your skater as he is bailing! The X360 frame rate is awesome, i believe 90 per hr, the graphics are great, the music is good, and, awesome, awesome, awesome! In addition, the game has "doubled your bag of tricks," by introducing new hippie jumps- these are used to jump over an obstacle and land again over it, plants, and lips. Also, another great thing is that you don't have to worry about going limp if you hit a curb or small obstacle, you just jump off your board, and "kick out." If you loved skate, you will not regret this, this is the skate equivalent of "The Dark Knight!"
By wonderboy_46 | Review Date: Feb 02, 2009 | X360
In 2007, while Activison's Tony Hawk franchise was hitting a slump, EA Black Box revolutionised skateboarding games with Skate and its innovative "flick-it" control system. Now, more than a year later, its time for the i... Read Full Review
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