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| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Tony Hawk hurtled out of the blue last year and is now a household name. Not because of his skating career, but because he was the star of the best skating game ever. Now that the sequel is here people are really getting excited about it, the pleasure without the pain. Tony Hawk 2 is the definitive game in skating, it has the stars, the graphics and possibly the most important of all great gameplay coupled with a great control system. You get all the thrills of pro skating without the spills. The graphics are great, if not all that much better than Tony Hawk 1, but there are some nice touches that really make you take notice. First of all the menus are simple and easy to navigate, while giving you easy choice of what to do. The characters are brilliantly animated, by motion capture, and all the moves look very lifelike, you can almost feel the pain from the bails. All the characters and environments have real time shadows that would look more in place in a Dreamcast game than the Playstation. The locations are varied and lush, from an aircraft hanger to Skater Heaven. All of them are chock full of things to do and secret areas to find and you may just find yourself just skating around to see the next graphical miracle. The controls are fantastic, you can execute an amazing move by just one or two taps of a button. Grinds are easy to initiate and hard to keep up for a long time, but all you have to do is jump off, do a trick and land for a huge point bonus. To go faster, slow down, jump, grind and do tricks all becomes second nature after half an hour. Playing with a friend is no problem either for this amazing game. The two player is the same as Tony Hawk 1 but with more modes and better graphics, you can even knock the other player off his/her board. The multitudes of modes are all great and this time there is even a two player free skate with no time limit! The most amazing thing is that there is never any slowdown, the frame rate remains reasonably high. All the pros are there from the original as well as a few new faces. You can buy stats, tricks and even new boards for them, the ability to craft them to your own preferences means that no two Tony Hawks are the same. If you hate all pro skaters and think they are all a bunch of lazy bums you can make your own skater in the �create skater� mode. Even Spider Man makes an appearance! The career mode is where you gain money, new skaters, buy stats and boards, compete in competitions and do basically anything else a pro skater does. The last mode is the �create park� mode in which you make your own park and use anything you want. Zandramas |
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