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?
Meh, it just looks uncomfortable as a game... and on that system.
Yeah, I'd rather play the original to be honest.
-- God Bless.
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.
Whatever, this makes me want to go listen to some RATM or play me some THPS3
That actually looks better than the Playstation version graphically.
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.
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).
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.
THPS 2 is still the best skateboarding game ever released. Not so sure I would play it on an iPhone though.
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
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.
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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