The best skateboarding game to date, Skate 2 put's Tony Hawk to shame.

User Rating: 9.5 | Skate 2 X360
By I_am_theOpus | Review Date:
I used to skateboard in real life, so I have always been critical of games like the Tony Hawk franchise. But I heard Skate 2 was different so I downloaded the demo and immediately had to buy the full game. Skate 2 is more like a skating simulator than an arcade game. It delivers a lot of realism that real life skaters will love, but unfortunately this means that if you don't know what a pop-shuvit, a kickflip, or a grind is, your already very far behind. Skate 2 barley makes any effort to teach you how to play, and just throws you right into the fray. This was great with me, but a lot of casual gamers will find themselves overwhelmed. Luckily the gameplay is highly addictive so once you get the terminology down you will never want to stop. The career mode is insanely deep with challenges ranging across all areas of skating, from death races to street competitions. There's even a whole branch about seeing how badly you can hurt yourself! Once you get bored with singleplayer, you can take it online and either compete against others, or work with them to complete freeskate challenges. The actual controls mostly remain the same as the first Skate game. You flick the right analog stick in different directions to do various tricks. Once you get to the higher level tricks this can get annoying as the movements are very close to each other. But players who put in practice will eventually dial the tricks, just like in real life. In my books skate 2 would get a perfect 10, but as a recommendation to the general public I only give it a 9.5 because you have to have a lot of prior knowledge about skateboarding.

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