Product Description

It's been five long years since your mysterious disappearance from the skate scene, and much has changed in the wake of "the disaster-too-gnarly-to-be-named." The massive devastation left large swaths of San Vanelona completely destroyed. After the mass evacuation, one company, Mongocorp, won the bid to rebuild New San Vanelona and their zealous protection of their private property has put a damper on the once thriving skate population. Your mission is to rebuild your career and revive the New San Van skate scene. To help you get the job done, you'll have double the tricks and the new ability to get off your board to move stuff and create the sickest lines. There's even a crew of locals you can call on to help take care of business. skate 2 - it's time to take back the city... one spot at a time.

• Double Your Bag of Tricks: Take to the streets and own the spots of New San Van with new tricks like one-foots, handplants, hippy jumps, and more.
• Move It! Get off your board and move stuff to create your ultimate spots to skate and destroy.
• Change the Face of the City: You can't rebuild the scene alone - call on your crew to uncap the spots, drain the pools, and provide some personal security.
• Hall of Meat: Punish your skater in the harshest ways possible with all-new bone-crushing bail physics. The new 'Thrasher Hall of Meat' mode features brutal slam challenges complete with gestures to customise your gnarliest bails.
• Create Spots: After you've moved stuff around to create the best spots, show them off. Upload your custom spots, download other gamers' stuff to skate, and vote on whose spots rule.
• Even More Online Skating: Roll seamlessly between single-player and online skate sessions and compete for cold hard cash and/or glory in the new competitive online modes.
• Express Yourself: Use the Graphics Creator to build custom graphics,

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1441 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2009-01-23
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Format: Unknown format
• Original language: English, German, French
• Subtitled in: English, German, French
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Skate 2 brings gamers to New San Vanelona, a city that's been rebuilt after an unspeakable disaster five years ago. Equipped with double the bag of tricks, players are tasked to rebuild their career and revive the skate scene. Now with the ability to get off-board and move objects around, gamers can create their own epic spots and challenges which can then be uploaded, shared and experienced by others around the world. Skate 2 ups the ante in delivering all the grit, creativity and culture of skateboarding with all-new tricks that allow players to truly skate it their way – on and off the board.

Customer Reviews

Going downhil...
Skate was a reaction to sequels, a youthful breath of uncluttered thinking in the face of the incremental gimmickry that sent Tony Hawk tottering into stodgy middle age. That puts Skate 2 in an awkward position from the start.

The game's response is, unavoidably, that of almost any other follow-up: on top of the clean lines of the original, Black Box now lays on additions, refinements and rebalancing. To replace the shock of the new, we instead get the simple pleasures of more - even though the first game understood that bigger isn't necessarily better.

Alongside a welcome expansion of the original's tricks repertoire, the sequel enables you to hop off your board and navigate New San Vanelona on foot. As a selling point, the power to walk around in a game about skating is hardly the most seductive of hooks, and it's surprisingly awkward in implementation; characters turn like battleships and lurch uncomfortably between standing and running animations, both of which seem to have been mo-capped from eager Neanderthals.

But walking has its uses. Navigating tricky areas of geometry to get to the next objective is noticeably easier and, more importantly, with two feet on the ground you can now grab in-game objects such as benches and dumpsters and move them about to create the perfect line.

The ability to construct your own trick spot adds a low-maintenance puzzle element to many of the game's objectives, but it really comes into its own in the online modes, where obsessives can spend hours moving around the virtual furniture before sharing the results.

The game's admirable restraint stops you from chaining together anything particularly outlandish; instead, it offers the more rarefied pleasures of tweaking a layout until it's just right, optimising the distance from picnic table to bench and extending a trick run as far as it can sensibly go.

Elsewhere, however, the brand new Hall Of Meat mode suggests that the franchise's descent into dangerous slapstick may already have begun. While there's something unavoidably entertaining about sounding out the huge environment for the best perches to throw your skater from, before watching and wincing as they earn points crashing to the ground, the experience never really fits in with the rest of the game's sense of quiet style and, for all its face-grinding impact, the minigame lacks the explosive logic and arcade precision of a good Burnout crash junction.

New San Vanelona remains a breezy source of realistic tricking, and the ease with which the Flickit control scheme has evolved to incorporate new additions continues to mark it out as a modest classic, but Skate 2 feels like something of a dilution.

Despite the pleasures of returning to such a well-constructed sandbox that offers many distractions, Black Box's sequel ultimately struggles to offer any single compelling justification for its own existence. The execution is still sharp, but the game as a whole feels slightly pointless.

Average
Great game at first but i quickly lost interest. Got halfway through career mode and got very bored with the game. Challenges become very repetitive.

Sick Game!
This game is awesome
I owned the original Skate and this is by far an improvement to such a great game.
The only complaint I have with this game is that it gets very, VERY frustrating when you get stuck on certain career challenges. But persistance allows you to exceed...
Many a times I got too frustrated to continue and had to take short breaks haha.

On the plus side, the new skate.reel provides and incredible community and adds endless possibilities to the gameplay.
It is the online community that will keep me hooked on this game for a long time, I only got this game 2 days ago and already i have more than 10 videos uploaded! I even have friends who own skate 2 on their xbox and i can watch their videos too.

I highly recommend