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    Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

    Game » consists of 11 releases. Released Sep 20, 2000

    Tony Hawk's Pro Skater returns with new levels, skaters, gameplay mechanics (including the introduction of the Manual), and the ability to create custom skaters and levels.

    Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Coming To iPhone?

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    Edited By jeff
    This footage of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 running on an iPhone surfaced yesterday and the port appears to be coming from LTI Gray Matter, a company which has done work for Activision in the past.

      


    THPS2 was an amazing game in its day, and this looks like a pretty impressive port in one of those clinical kind of "wow, you managed to get it running" sort of ways. But I can't imagine that I'd really get much enjoyment out of using the four spots on the screen to hit buttons while steering and selecting tricks with an accelerometer.

    Do you ever get the impression that a lot of iPhone developers are just kind of doing things because they can instead of really thinking and developing great iPhone games? All this footage makes me want to do is hook up my PlayStation and play the real thing.
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    #1  Edited By jeff
    This footage of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 running on an iPhone surfaced yesterday and the port appears to be coming from LTI Gray Matter, a company which has done work for Activision in the past.

      


    THPS2 was an amazing game in its day, and this looks like a pretty impressive port in one of those clinical kind of "wow, you managed to get it running" sort of ways. But I can't imagine that I'd really get much enjoyment out of using the four spots on the screen to hit buttons while steering and selecting tricks with an accelerometer.

    Do you ever get the impression that a lot of iPhone developers are just kind of doing things because they can instead of really thinking and developing great iPhone games? All this footage makes me want to do is hook up my PlayStation and play the real thing.
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    People are getting all kinds of emulators to run on iPhone these days.

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    #3  Edited By fr0br0

    No thanks, I've got Touch Grind :)

    You know, the game that was MADE for the Iphone...

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    #4  Edited By JonathanMoore

    Meh, it just looks uncomfortable as a game... and on that system.

    Yeah, I'd rather play the original to be honest.

    -- God Bless.

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    #5  Edited By get2sammyb

    It looks awesome but yeah, controls are the issue. It almost makes me wish Apple would have predicted that iPhone would become a viable handheld games platform and, you know, added a couple of buttons to thing.

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    Whatever, this makes me want to go listen to some RATM or play me some THPS3

    Sure as hell not smudge up my screen fucking around with this. 
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    TH2 was the best tony hawk game.

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    #8  Edited By CL60

    Controls will suck.

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    #9  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator

    Some simpler older games would be cool on iPhone, but I can't imagine something as complex as THPS2 controlling too well.

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    #10  Edited By snetErz

    Looks like it would be pretty difficult to play on the iPhone. Looks like a quality port though.

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    #11  Edited By coonce

    jesus -- this looks insane! release date?

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    #12  Edited By RHCPfan24

    Hmm....Tony Hawk for the iPhone? I don't know if that will work. But, here I am, the person who just bought Myst for the IPhone even after complaining about its size and drawbacks.

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    #13  Edited By thatguy

    I noticed a distinct lack of being able to manual.

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    #14  Edited By EmptyQuarter

    That actually looks better than the Playstation version graphically. 


    The controls seem like a good idea in theory, but in practice I'm not so sure. 

    What I am sure about is that I want to go dig out my old copy of the game. Pro Skater 2 and 3 were the really great Tony Hawk games for me and that trailer's given me a wave of nostalgia for them.

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    #15  Edited By Seraphim2150

    Please stop including Mad World in trailers.

    Funny how Hawk has full stats for everything

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    #16  Edited By FoolInjection

    So how'd you Manual then ?...

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    #17  Edited By coonce
    @Fr0Br0: are you serious about grind-touch? i have it too - but its kinda weak-sauce no?
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    #18  Edited By GeekDown

    THPS2 is my favorite game of the series. But the controls look kinda shitty so i'm not sure if i am gonna get it.

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    #19  Edited By Warihay

    If the controls work well (doubt it) then it would be one of the best iPhone games yet. If not, then I will bust out my Playstation and play a little. Game was awesome.

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    I don't know why people are trying to make games like this for the iPhone. These games need exact controls, IE, buttons, the touch screen just doesn't provide that.

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    Thats the best kind of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.

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    #22  Edited By Snail

    Looks awesome. Takes me way back.

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    #23  Edited By libb

    THPS2 was the best Tony Hawk game. Period. End of story. I originally got it for the N64 and played the shit out of it - even though the N64 cart had so little space that they could only put 30-second clips of 6 of the songs from the soundtrack in the game. (Might I also had - nominee for best soundtrack in a game ever?)

    Which is why I "acquired" an ISO of it and play it on my M33-equipped PSP. That's the real way to play a portable version (it runs beautifully, with cleaned up graphics and everything).

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    #24  Edited By Double0hFor

    time to dust off my original!

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    #25  Edited By JoelTGM

    that's very cool

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    #26  Edited By Contra

    Awesome. 

    I'll probably get it.  I love that game.

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    #27  Edited By HydraHam

    This song is annoying now.. it was great till everyone and their mother heard it on gears commercial and started using it on everything.. mind you i know this isn't the gary juelz version

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    #28  Edited By MrKlorox

    Would much rather have Thrasher:Skate and Destroy on iPhone. Oh well, it still plays great on my PSP.

    Also, the Dreamcast version of THPS2x was clearly the best version.

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    #29  Edited By CrazyManDan

    THPS2 is awesome, but on the iPhone?

    One of my favorite things to do in THPS2 is flip on the Sim Mode cheat and go hit some lines in Skatestreet, something that requires more accurate control than the iPhone's accelerometer can provide. For much of that video, the guy looked less like he was in control of the action and more like he was simply reacting to wherever his skater was hurtling at the time - pressing grind if he was flying toward a rail, mashing grab/flip/grab whenever he found himself in the air, et cetera. And I swear, for the first six minutes of the video, the only grab I saw him do was an Indy Nosebone...

    It's certainly impressive from a technical standpoint, but with the loose controls it just doesn't look like something I could have fun with. If Activision wants to milk THPS2 for more cash (not that they don't deserve to), I'd love to see them throw it up on the PSN as a PSone Classic for those of us with legal PSPs - I'd grab that in a heartbeat.

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    #30  Edited By maxszy

    I played this so much on the PC back when it came out. It was so much fun, and a great game.

    Though I don't think it would have that same feeling being on the IPhone now. If I really want to play it, i'll play it again on the PC where i've got better controls.

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    #31  Edited By Alexander

    I forgot how good the soundtrack was to that game.

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    #32  Edited By redskineer

    game looks hard as hell to control.....not even the guy in the video can pull of the tricks well.

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    #33  Edited By dsplayer1010

    Sure, why not?

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    #34  Edited By Milkman

    Looks really hard to control.

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    #35  Edited By jediautobot

    Man, I do want to fire up my PS2, backwards compatibility FTW

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    #36  Edited By MacGyver

    I would play this on my iPhone. If you play it long enough I'm sure you can get the controls down.

    I'm just curious what the pricing would be on this.

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    #37  Edited By CoolDrMoney

    THPS 2 is still the best skateboarding game ever released. Not so sure I would play it on an iPhone though.

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    #38  Edited By AURON570

    LOL they have to emphasize that it's on the iPhone by zooming out every 10 seconds showing the dude playing.

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    #39  Edited By AgentX

    Iphone is great and all but I heard the battery dies easily.

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    #40  Edited By RetroIce4

    Controls = 99 Problems and a bitch is one.

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    #41  Edited By Media_Master

    blah that song....still don't have an iphone, and why should I , they'll just keep on releasing a better version every year or 2

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    #42  Edited By MeatSim

    The controls just aren't gonna work. for me.

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    #43  Edited By Captain_Fookup

    Played THPS2 back in the day like crazy on my old Quicksilver G4

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    #44  Edited By TheGreatGuero

    The Tony Hawk series has seriously been on more consoles than just about any game series ever made. I can't say I'm too surprised.

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    #45  Edited By Skyler

    Playstation? The Dreamcast version is where it's at, Jeff.

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    #46  Edited By digital_sin

    Dude that is OBVIOUSLY fake. I mean really! Check 0:54, he's running the video player and pretending that it's actual footage. And NO, it's not because the game is so well integrated with the iPhone interface, Why else would he skip the video if there's like 1 sec remaining? Because if he didn't, It will kick him back to the video selection menu.

     He edited some video of the game and overlayed it with some buttons on screen, poorly I might add. And there are obvious cuts in the video where he might've accidentally touched the screen and triggered the video player's controls.

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    #47  Edited By ElectricHaggis

    I think the last Tony Hawk's game I played was Pro Skater 3.  I used to love those games back then.

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