Skate 2 Impressions

[oChaos_Nine]

Quote: Originally Posted by DocHolliday

So this game the career challenges are "harder" than the first? Damn, I found the first one to be quite hard and was the reason I stopped playing. I have very little patience sometime but I remeber SKATE being a controller breaker. I just wanted to get to the X games but etting past some of the challeges (I think it was the one in Plan B) was really hard for me. And its harder now? Fail

Just wait till you play SKATE with Koston and Carroll. They sometimes mess up their tricks when trying to set the trick just to give you a try, but Carroll never misses when you set the trick.

I asked earlier but nobody answered yet. Is there anyway to download other peoples graphics for boards? Or can you only use the ones that you create?

[SoCal-Phenom]

Any impressions from the visual side of things? Are the graphics and animations, in general, superior to SKATE 1?

[mgoblue]

Online's so much fun. Played a while with tcrouch today and we had a blast trying all the new modes and areas...lots of spots to go wild with.

Hall of Meat is hilarious trying to get the most brutal bail, I could see with a good group online everyone would be dying with laughter.

[goh]

The answer to the ships poop deck pool spot kill...

[Corey]

Quote: Originally Posted by goh

The answer to the ships poop deck pool spot kill...

Oh brother, I'd think that would of occurred to me given that's how I got there in the first place.

Thanks!
(figured the camera out now too)

[calcutta]

Man, the Pro challenge where you battle two pros in S.K.A.T.E. is a royal pain! They pretty much never bail and, like Skate, copying tricks is pure luck because the right stick simply isn't precise enough...even with the sharpest jabs of the RS I seem to always perform Pop Shuv-its. It's the last Pro Challenge i need to beat too

My other main gripe is the frustration caused by NPCs - peds, skaters (during Pro challenges) and even Big Black (during the final SBM shoot) all do an excellent job of getting in your way!

That said im loving the game and been playing it non-stop, even though the game has frozen on me 15 times...just played a 3-hour sesh w/o any issues though.

[spit_bubble]

My final impressions... Continued from my previous ones...

Not nearly done with the game yet, but deep enough into it to see that it offers a significant amount over the first EA Skate. It still doesn't have that wow factor to it, but the game is good... Very good.

It does at times feel a bit arcade-ish, slightly more so than the first, due mostly in part to: 1. The city feeling at times not so much like a city, but rather one big skate park, and 2. Some of the skating can get pretty absurd.

But for every Tony Hawk type of moment the game has, it is balanced with a nice little area to skate where you can get back to what made the initial EA Skate so compelling: simple moves and sequences that are both challenging and pleasing.

There is still room for improvement with the series, but by my own estimation Skate 2 is a worthwhile game.

[goh]

Quote: Originally Posted by calcutta

My other main gripe is the frustration caused by NPCs - peds, skaters (during Pro challenges) and even Big Black (during the final SBM shoot) all do an excellent job of getting in your way!

I just finished that GvR comp and during the last section of it got knocked down 4 times in the middle of big tricks. Should've won by DQ. Was the same mess in the first part at the hotel comp before that one too before I figured out a spot they weren't using.