This is my first Tony Hawk game and I played it without disappointment.
First, there's different type of modes available like career, rigger, and hardcore.
Whichever of the three modes you like, either way you have to complete all of their tasks to unlock new levels.
In career mode, you learn professional stuff like Nail-A-Trick and Nail-A Grab.
In rigger mode, you're more a builder than a skater, and you use use rails and etc. to built a new thing to skate on.
In hardcore mode, it's violent skating, you learn how to aggro kick which gives you some boost and you learn how to check people.
These three type of playing modes do good jobs of overshadowing what's bad about this game.
1. I know that the PS2 don't have any high definition technology like the PS3, but the graphics could have been better.
6/10
2. I know we're not skating in the real world, but the skate levels are way too small. If you use aggro push, you can skate around the whole level in 15 seconds or less. They should have created larger skate grounds.
6/10
3. The voice acting is kinda annoying to listen to. It would have been better for this game if you could choose the type of voice you would want for your person like in Def Jam. Most skaters talk gangsta just cause they think they can do a few moves. The problem is your skater, no matter how you decorate him, he's still going to have that lame cheesy high voice. What I'm basically saying is either than your skater every other skate talks in a deep and in a wanna be gangsta voice.
Bad voice acting!
5/0
Now my overall grade for this game would have to be a 6.5
It's a fair game with just some few little problems, but if you ask me I don't think it's bad enough to make the Tony Hawk skate games lose all their popularity.