Improving on Perfection?
Have you ever played a game you thought was going to be terrible and find out it was actually a great game? This is what happened to me when I tried the original Tony Hawk for Sony Playstation. Why did I think it would be terrible, you ask? Well, I simply had never played a skateboarding game I liked before; they all either had terrible controls, bad graphics, or some other fatal flaw. Nevertheless, Tony blew my socks off, and the rest, as they say, is history.
So now you can understand that when I heard that a sequel was being developed, I was cautious. With so many companies just trying to cash-in on game sequels, was Tony Hawk 2 going to be as good as the first?
The sweetest of all console ports …
I know what all you PC game fanatics out there are thinking. “If the game wasn’t made for the PC platform it must just be for 15 year-olds or just plain suck.” Okay, okay, I’m just kidding, but here is where those fanatics would get proven wrong. The only artifacts left over from the console version in this game would be the graphics. After seeing great graphics like in the American McGee’s Alice you can definitely tell that this is a game ported from the Playstation.
Throughout the game you skate through many detailed surroundings, including Venice Beach, Philadelphia, and a great skate park called StreetSkate. Replay value is huge, as each area has tons of hidden gap bonuses and hidden areas. The skaters this time around are much more configurable, the more money you earn from completing level goals, the more you can spend on higher stats or new tricks. There even are hidden characters just waiting to be unlocked. Ever wanted to skateboard as Spiderman? Here you can, but you’ll have to find him first.
Options… | Hello, Mr. Taxi | Nice jump |
System Requirements
-Pentium 233
-32MB RAM
-350MB Hard Drive space
-4MB Video RAM
-Direct X 7.0
-4x CD-ROM
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