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, 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 and upload to share with others. The new Thrasher Hall of Meat mode features brutal slam challenges complete with gestures to customize your gnarliest bails. 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. Upload your custom spots & lines, download other gamers' stuff to skate, & vote on whose spots rule Single player & online skate sessions & compete for cold hard cash/glory in the new competitive online modes Use the Graphics Creator to build custom graphics, then slap them on your hats, hoodies, & deck

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #894 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 15452
• Published on: 2009-01
• Released on: 2009-01-21
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Number of discs: 1
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
• Subtitled in: German
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .59" h x 6.10" w x 6.50" l, .30 pounds

Features

• Double the tricks including footplants, crail slides, fingerflips, and the ability to Skitch
• Walk around on foot and move nearly 100 different objects to be a part of your run
• Expanded Reel editor allows placable cameras to record your favorite scenes
• Create male or female characters, and us the new in-depth graphics creator
• Create your epic spots and challenges, then upload them and share them with friends around the world

Amazon.com Product Description
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.

Grind on any surface you can find. View larger.

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.

The Story Continues
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

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!

Considering Purchase?
I've been waiting for Skate 2 to come out for a while. It seemed like a great game, especially after the original Skate's success. I got the demo as soon as it came out, and I purchased the game as soon as I could. Honestly, though, it's all hype.

Sure, the graphics are great, the tricks are fun, and multiplayer is a blast... but it lacks something. It lacks fun. The city is vast but a few spots are fun. Career will freeze on you very frequently, almost to the point where it is unplayable. The activities are extremely frustrating and will have you throwing your controller across the room. There's been too many times when I've simply turned off my PS3 and walked away.

Coming from Electronic Arts, the poor testing and rushed release were to be expected, but not like this. I really wish I hadn't purchased this game.

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.