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Skate 2
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Skate 2 adds additional trick modifiers, a wide-open career mode, and a host of new multiplayer content to the original Skate formula.
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"Skate 2 makes a load of interesting changes to the structure of the average skateboarding game and includes enough interesting multiplayer options to keep players going for awhile."
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Improvements needed

This all around was a very good game but it could be much better. I loved the Multiplayer idea of doing freeskate activities with friends but after i finished that the game became very boring. It lack… Read more

Skate 2 kickflips my heart

2007’s Skate was, by no exaggeration, groundbreaking. EA’s decision to compete with the mega-successful Tony Hawk Bolts, baby. Bolts. franchise wasn’t all that surprising, but the method in which they… Read more

5% Inspiration,95%Perspiration

Skate 2 Is a game that is quite offputting at first,difficult to master,and incredibly frustrating,as the difference between making a trick and becoming a mess of tangled wreckage is literally a matte… Read more

Improvements... Technically.

I've had this game since it came out, so this review is well and truly late coming, but it has been sitting here unfinished since about three weeks after the release, and it just felt wrong not to pos… Read more

Skate 2 Review

Skate 2 is the skateboard game sequel from Electronic Arts. You are a fresh out of jail skater who gets to go back to San Vanelona, the city has been rebuilt and security is tight in areas. You'll be… Read more

Rage quit

This game isn't the greatest skateboarding game ever made. The idea of doing tricks with a joystick instead of just buttons was a refreshing new mechanic in the first Skate. Unfortunantly Skate 2 does… Read more

Buttery

You're walking down a hall, bars on either side. Evidently a jail. Professional skaters look on as you walk, the captured convicts, peering out at you as you pass them to your freedom. You walk along… Read more

Skate 1.75

Skate 1 radically reinvented the skateboarding genre in video games, causing Skate 2 to have a lot of high hopes and in some places it succeeds but in others it falters. Although I have only played a… Read more

skate 2

hey you guys i will be talking about a great game called skate 2 the first one was a hit and the second one was a big hit. this game is really going to challange activision and their tony hawk series… Read more

A Nice Update

Well, there's a bunch of new tricks and gameplay mechanics, such as skitching, handplants, footplants and walking. They'd promised the ability to walk early on in the game's development, but still man… Read more

I have one thing to say Hall of Meat

Skate was a very fun and enjoyable gamr for me. I had played some Tony Hawk games before and after playing skate i havent touched them at all. So Skate 2 makes some great improvements from Skate, like… Read more

Totally rad, dude

For years the Tony Hawk franchise was the king of skateboarding games. With a plethora of titles spread across every platform available, and no competition in sight, it seemed as though its dominance… Read more

Bailing just got a lot more fun

The first skate game would have considered a big experement for skateing games and proved that you can have a realistc skating game and not have to name Tony hawk on it to be succseful. Anyway now we… Read more

Rolling into refinement.

Skate 2 is a sequel nobody asked for. The original Skate played competently, looked fantastic, and finally usurped the Tony Hawk series’ off its throne. Frankly, any problems with Skate could’ve been… Read more

Skate 2 for PS3

Skate 2 is one of the hardest games I've played but yet it's still really fun. Note: I know little to nothing about skateborading so keep that in mind when read this review. Skate 2's is a really hard… Read more

My return to the skating game genre was well worth it.

I'll be honest, It's been a long time since I played a skating game. I think the last one was Tony Hawk 2... or maybe 3, for the N64. So, some of the things I praise may be things that came along in t… Read more

Problems do remain but it's still the better skateboarding game

I do admit that i never played the first Skate, but the demo stayed on my hard drive for over a year as i got addicted to the new, interesting control scheme and focus on realism. When the demo for Sk… Read more

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A polished, stylish, fun-filled & feature-packed game.

EA Blackbox took advantage of a downbeat genre to release ‘Skate’ back in 2007; a critical darling which dumped arcade high-scoring gameplay for a more realistic trick-centric approach. Though the fir… Read more

A much improved, very fun sequel - but not flawless.

Pros * Visually sound * The ability to walk takes the tedium out of trying to scale a flight of stairs. * Hall of Meat activity's make bailing productive and often fun. Cons * Few songs in the soundtr… Read more

The Savior of the Skateboarding Genre Gets Refined...

The original Skate was considered a savior to the skateboarding genre of video games two years ago when the Tony Hawk franchise is fading out. Its innovative controls and being a better representation… Read more

Gnar Sesh

In 2001 I got my fair share of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3. Living in a house full of college guys, TH3 was constantly being played by someone. After burning out on it, my interest in skateboarding games w… Read more

A difficult, rewarding experience

The feeling of freedom to skate wherever and to have your own personal adventure is what makes this series great. The level of freedom players get is truly remarkable and delivers a very rewarding exp… Read more

Dude, they almost nailed it!

Moves which seen tame on the Tony Hawk's games feel great and rewarding hereAfter the release of "skate." in 2007, many were surprised by it's trampling of Tony Hawk's Proving Ground which was release… Read more

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