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''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2'', often called '''''THPS2''''', is the second game in the ''Tony Hawk's'' Series . It was developed by Neversoft and published by Activision in 2000 . It was first released for the PlayStation , with subsequent Ports to the Nintendo 64 (by Edge Of Reality ), Dreamcast (by Treyarch ), Game Boy Advance (by Vicarious Visions ), Mac OS , and the Windows PC . It was also released for the Game Boy Color , and was better received than the first installment on that machine. In spite of that, it still bore little resemblance to the other versions of the game. The Game Boy Advance version, however, was highly applauded for translating the style and sense of the game accurately into an isometric (pseudo-3D or 2.5D) game. GAMEPLAY It features the series' trademark open-ended gameplay, in which the player (playing as a well-known professional skateboarder) completes a number of missions which result in cash rewards. With the cash, the player can then purchase skill improvements and better skateboards. ''THPS2'' was also the first game in the series to introduce the Manual , a skateboarding trick where the performer balances on his back two wheels. This enables players to string together trick combos, often resulting in hundreds of thousands of points. The game also introduced the Noseslide, Tailslide, Feeble, and Overcrook grinds. It was also the first of the ''Pro Skater'' games to feature Create-a-Skater and Park Editor features, now staples in the series. Some levels in ''Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2'' are designed for the player to complete a set number of tasks in two minutes. Such tasks include finding the S-K-A-T-E letters, high scores and finding a hidden tape somewhere in the level. Each of the non-competition levels contain ten tasks for a player to do, each task rewarding a player with cash. Cash is also scattered around the levels in order for players to find, increasing the use for replaying a level. Once a player has enough cash, they can continue on to a new level. The other type of levels are Competition levels. This is first seen in Marseilles , where a player must perform tricks and get judged on. The rating by the judges that a player receives is based on how much they score, variation of tricks, bails, and how much of the level they have used. The judges give scores based on this criteria, the highest and lowest are taken away, and the three scores are given an average. There are three runs total and the best two count. Competition levels also contain cash hidden for a player to collect. LEVELS The game features the following levels:
Bonus levels
SKATERS The game features the following skaters: Pro skaters Bonus skaters The following characters are unlocked after completing the game a certain number of times, differing for each character. Once unlocked, the player can play the game as normal with these characters:
NeverSoft CAS Skaters Inserting the following names on Create-a-Skater mode will unlock these characters:
PORTS Nintendo 64 Originally to be released along with the PlayStation version, but delayed to allow further sales of the first ''THPS'' for the console. Almost a year later, the game was released by the same company that brought the first ''Tony Hawk'' game to Nintendo 64, Edge of Reality. This version includes all of the features from the PlayStation version, including the Create-a-Skater and Park Editor. In addition to visual improvements (less jagged, smooth) like the Nintendo 64 version of the first game, a new level called ''Bike Headquarters'' (from Matt Hoffman) was added. Also added were a few new cheats, such as the 10x Point Multiplier, Double-Moon Physics and Max Turbo Mode codes. The amount of songs was reduced to six and portions of each one were cut. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X'' was released on November 14 , 2001 (only in the US) as a launch title for Microsoft 's Xbox . The game contained remade versions of all the levels from the first two games in the ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater'' series, five new levels, and a LAN multi-player feature. SOUNDTRACK
Not all of the songs here were featured in the N64 version. Songs that appeared in the N64 version are marked with an asterisk. The Gameboy Advance and Gameboy Color versions of the game used music without lyrics, but none of it was licensed. RECEPTION ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2'' met with a tremendous amount of critical and commercial success. Many critics consider the game to be one of the best games ever released. The Playstation version scored second highest according to Metacritic with an overall score of 98%, only trailing ''''. The Dreamcast version was in sixth with an average rating of 97%. It was placed fourth in Game Informer's Greatest game of all time list.[http://www.angelfire.com/co4/colin_gaea/gi100.htm/ 4th greatest video game of all time. The Playstation and Dreamcast versions of ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2'' have both earned Platinum awards from gaming magazine '' Electronic Gaming Monthly ''. Because of this, it is the only game in the magazine's history to ever have earned a Platinum award twice (but is only acknowledged as a single game in ''EGM'''s records due to the Dreamcast game receiving a 10 from only one reviewer as opposed to the Playstation game receiving 10s from all 3 of its reviewers). {Link without Title} EXTERNAL LINKS |
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