Skate 2 PS3
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Black Box redefined what the skating-game genre could, and should be, with Skate It. Now they have come out with the long anticipated sequel Skate 2 for the PlayStation 3. This new installment features a lot more exciting and sophisticated tricks, an improved Reel editor, a deeper create-a-skater, and much more.
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 The reel editor lets you create videos of yourself. View larger. |
 Giant ramps let you catch massive air. View larger. |
 You can buy property and turn them into skate parks. View larger. |
Skate 2 is set five years after the events in Skate It, where many earthquakes had devastated the city leaving it in ruins. Instead of the skaters' paradise that the city used to be, the new city dubbed New San Vanelona, has stepped-up security, thanks to Mongo Co., in order to protect the best parts of the city. This is the setting for you to rebuild your skate career and revive the city's skate scene.
Whereas you started the last game by learning the basics of skating, with Skate 2 you'll be immediately challenged by find a couple huge ramps. You start out at Slappy's, and while there are some tutorials, veterans will be able to blaze through them in about a minute. New players, on the other hand, will find Slappy's park to be inviting and easily accessible, and can get a taste of what's in store for them before taking on the entirety of San Vanelona. And once out there, you'll find that people you run into remember you and what you did five years ago, and are excited to see you back in action.
Exciting New Features and Capabilities
While the controls will be instantly familiar to fans of the previous game, there are loads of new tricks to perform. Skaters can now do footplants, crail slides and fingerflips. Or show off with a lip trick, an Ollie North, and the long-sought ability to Skitch (grabbing the bumper of a moving car) to gain speed.
New to Skate 2 is the ability to get off your board and walk around. While on foot, players can move certain objects in the world, creating their own lines with nearly 100 different objects. Changes to the environment, big or small, will stay put in the game regardless of how long you play. Should you decide that you no longer like your giant stack of trash bins or some other madness you've set up, one touch of a button can return the items to their original position. This means gamers can create their own epic spots and challenges, which can then be uploaded, shared, and experienced by others around the world.
Loads of Great Improvements
Skate 2 expands on the original's popular Reel editor, allowing gamers to place a follow camera or a fixed tripod camera wherever they want, recording their wicked tricks and brutal crashes. And speaking of crashes, skaters will now experience, and be able to highlight, damage to their threads. Clothes get dirty and become torn, and players get cuts and bruises depending on their actions. And if you crash big enough, you'll see a bail score pop up and increase as you take damage, culminating in the Thrasher Hall of Meat screen that tells you how well you've done crashing, and gives you an x-ray view showing your broken bones.
Skate 2 also features the choice of creating either a male or female character, rather than just male, and will offer an in-depth graphics creator. The role of money increases, allowing players to buy up pieces of property and turn them into a full-fledged skate parks. And there is a great new Goofy vs. Regular competition variant, where two teams of three skaters compete in the same park at the same time.
In short, Skate 2 ups the ante in delivering all the grit, creativity and culture of skateboarding, with all-new tricks and capabilities that allow players to truly skate it their way, on and off the board.
The create-a-skater features lets you personalize your player.
Customer Reviews
One of the best games I've ever played
I used to skate some years ago, but I had to quit because of some serious injuries. I still miss a lot skating, so I wanted a skateboarding game. I was really hesitant about which one would be the best option. I played some of the Tony Hawk games and I liked them. Then I started to read some comments about Skate and Skate 2 and almost every one agreed that this series is by far better than Tony Hawk's. So I dowloaded the demos, and both (Skate and Skate 2) seemed pretty good to me. I decided to buy Skate 2 and I don't regret it. It is awesome, obvously is not the same as skating in real life, but I feel that I can fulfill my skating desire. I really love this game, it is one of the best games I have ever played.
The things I liked the most (considering that I've been playing only for some hours):
1) The realism, the graphics and the huge variety of tricks.
2) The amazing and enormous city.
3) You can set a mark wherever you want, so you can go back to that mark and retry the session or trick you wanna do.
4) It is kind of weird using the skater off the board, but it is really helpful.
5) There are skating spots everywhere! And you can do some by your own moving objetcs.
6) I like the career mode. There is no time pressing you, you can skate all you want in the city, and whenever you want advance in your career.
7) The clothes and accesories are really cool.
8) There are a lot of spots to discover in the city and more stuff to do in the game.
9) I played the Hall of Meat with a couple of friends and we had a good time. It was hilarious. I don't have to risk my bones and ligaments to do that :)
10) I wish I could skate again in real life... but as I said, I can fulfill a little bit my desire with this awesome game.
A great improvement
I played Skate until smoke came out of my PS3. Skate 2 is a welcome addition. Hours upon hours of entertainment value. Improved video, and even the play control is better (if that is possible). Love the trick setup option. Tony who? This series blows away the competition.
As for the comment about the play control compared to playing with a rock....well, that guy must have a busted controller. I downloaded the demo before I purchased it and there is no "rock" feel to it. Smoother than the first one.
If you are a Skate fan and loved the 1st one, buy this! It's 100% worth it!
Skate 1.5?
I'm a big skateboarder and thus loved how realistic the original Skate was. I can understand why people who aren't skaters have trouble with things like terminology, but since I'm an avid skater I know all of the tricks and I was able to see how realistic the controls were. Everything about Skate was fantastic: the graphics, the music, the controls, you name it and it was awesome. However, Skate 2 seems to have taken a few steps backwards in my eyes.
From the very first few seconds of playing I realized that something was graphically different in Skate 2, but not for the better. It is very hard to describe, but things almost seem more "cartoony", or in other words, I am very AWARE that I am playing a video game. Compare the way that the wheels of your board look from Skate and Skate 2, you can easily tell there is a difference in detail. Also, it appears that your facial customization has suffered a hit as well as it feels very limited. One major problem I have found is the lighting issues. In Skate marble surfaces glistened with the sun and you could see light reflecting off of buildings, it was great, but in Skate 2 the light can actually blind you to the point where you can't see 2 pushes in front of your face. Shade is also a major upset; it is difficult trying a challenge where a ledge is either too dark due to shadows or obscured by bushes. Some might consider this simply "realism", but there was no such issue in Skate and there was plenty of sun and shade to go around. The whole feel of the city seems to have changed too. In Skate it seemed like nearly everything in the game could be seen around a town in real life, but Skate 2 puts out some spots and parks that seem like they are out of some weird painting or "create-a-park" gone awry. I miss the realism.
Next comes the challenges, boy do I hope you have a full head of hair so you don't look so bad after pulling a lot of it out. Some of the challenges seem impossible the first time you come across them, and may remain that way a day or two later. Games of S.K.A.T.E. with pros can take well over 10 minutes because the AI will simply not miss a single trick, which can get extremely aggravating to say the least. To be fair not all of the challenges will having you throwing your controller around, but even being good at Skate I've had my fair share of turning the PS3 off and simply walking away.
The new tricks this time around are things like foot plants, no complies, inverts, etc. While none of them are really necessary or add much to the game, they can be a lot of fun to pull off. Unfortunately, transition skating and lip tricks still suffer from control issues. You will frequently find yourself flying out a bowl you were trying to get speed in or going into a grind accidently because you went too high and hit the coping. Probably the biggest addition is the ability to get off your board and walk around, but I have no idea who would have actually approved of such clunky controls. Off your board the character moves slowly, has to turn and face the direction you want them to move in, and has the steering capabilities of a semi truck with blown out tires. Honestly the first Tony Hawk game where you could get off your board had the controls down better, and that was something like 5 years ago.
The filming system has changed around a bit and it took me awhile to get used to it, but overall it is a bit more detailed than in the original Skate. You can now choose what type of camera you want when filming, such as a tripod or having the traditional "following" camera. It takes some getting used to but offers some great results. Also, security has undergone a major change, for the worse. In Skate you had 1, maybe 2 security guards on you some of the time. However, in Skate 2 having 2 or 3 security guards is the norm, with up to 5 or even 6 being possible. It isn't much fun skating a plaza when you get punched off of your board every few seconds. Oh and Big Black is not very reliable when it comes to taking these guys down, just a heads up.
As a whole the game is not anywhere close to as satisfying and exciting as the original Skate and I was expecting it to be at least equal. The controls are the same with the exception of new tricks and getting off the board (which is nothing short of awful) and even moving around objects was less fun than it was made out to be because your rail or ramp can get knocked 10 feet away if you run into it wrong. Something about the graphics still seems off and almost a few years into the past, and the lighting issues can make all of the things you are trying to skate turn pitch black. I'd be lying if I said I loved this game as much as the original, but if you loved Skate you should at least give this one a try.
UPDATE:
After playing Skate 2 exclusively for a few weeks I feel that I have a good experience of the game as a whole and stand by everything I wrote in the review. Also, after playing Skate 2 for so long I popped the original Skate back into my PS3 for 15 minutes and came to the realization that other than the new camera system Skate 2 is INFERIOR to Skate in every single way. I only hope there is a Skate 3 so they can get this back on track.
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