01:33 PM - January 22, 2009 by ExtremeGamerSkate 2 News Post
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# 41
Shinyhubcaps @ 01/23/09 10:00 PM
The game is worth the price of admission if you enjoyed the first. Otherwise, I would be a little skeptical.
The gameplay is pretty good, and I haven't had many problems except for my skater inexplicably falling when I go between on-board and off-board.
The skater customization is, in my opinion, upsettingly bad. No matter what I do to the face, the head looks exceptionally large and heavy. Where some sponsors had 10-20 items of gear last year, there are about 4 this year. Graphics creator makes for some pretty ugly shirts with very few options, but it's a nice addition.
The city is OK, but it has its flaws. There are times when you'll notice something is laid out the same as in the original Skate, and it is nice to see how it's changed. For the most part, though, I haven't found many great spots, and the style of the city is a big step back from the original. No longer do the different sections have their own unique flair. They all kinda run together, and most of them look dark and run-down.
The menus are awful. The map should be more like the map in the last game. Instead, it only gives you the one view, and instead of scrolling with a cursor, you can only jump to locations on your list. It's good for challenges, but bad for marking spots.
Also, unless I'm wrong, you can't manage multiple skaters?
The framerate is inconsistent. It can be brilliant one second and upsettingly choppy the next.
I much preferred when the filmer was invisible.
Despite these things, though, it is a good game. I have played it for several hours. If you liked the first, then the purchase is good for this one. If you did not play the first, you may find the story mode a bit confusing, but you may like the game nonetheless. The biggest test for me will come when I'm done with the career, seeing if I still want to play just to skate around.
The gameplay is pretty good, and I haven't had many problems except for my skater inexplicably falling when I go between on-board and off-board.
The skater customization is, in my opinion, upsettingly bad. No matter what I do to the face, the head looks exceptionally large and heavy. Where some sponsors had 10-20 items of gear last year, there are about 4 this year. Graphics creator makes for some pretty ugly shirts with very few options, but it's a nice addition.
The city is OK, but it has its flaws. There are times when you'll notice something is laid out the same as in the original Skate, and it is nice to see how it's changed. For the most part, though, I haven't found many great spots, and the style of the city is a big step back from the original. No longer do the different sections have their own unique flair. They all kinda run together, and most of them look dark and run-down.
The menus are awful. The map should be more like the map in the last game. Instead, it only gives you the one view, and instead of scrolling with a cursor, you can only jump to locations on your list. It's good for challenges, but bad for marking spots.
Also, unless I'm wrong, you can't manage multiple skaters?
The framerate is inconsistent. It can be brilliant one second and upsettingly choppy the next.
I much preferred when the filmer was invisible.
Despite these things, though, it is a good game. I have played it for several hours. If you liked the first, then the purchase is good for this one. If you did not play the first, you may find the story mode a bit confusing, but you may like the game nonetheless. The biggest test for me will come when I'm done with the career, seeing if I still want to play just to skate around.
I am having fun and the career mode seems fun like the first. It's definitely just more of the first, with the ability to get off the board (clumsy, but still helpful). If you didn't like the first, you'll hate this one, but otherwise it'll be hours of fun for us.
# 43
Shinyhubcaps @ 01/24/09 02:41 AM
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# 45
DocHolliday @ 01/24/09 04:11 PM
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
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
I beat everything in skate. (with the odd exception of not getting the last 10 gamer score for the video rating, if anyone wants to help there I can dig it out), so I think I'm pretty decent, but I can't get the poop deck pool kill the spot, its 1500 points and I think the most I get to is about 1200 with some cheesey flip grind flip grind grab spin action. What's the high scoring move I need to do to pull that one off?
I also couldn't figure out how to change cameras in my footage, do I need to earn those in a challenge or just read the instructions better?
I also couldn't figure out how to change cameras in my footage, do I need to earn those in a challenge or just read the instructions better?
# 47
oChaos_Nine @ 01/24/09 05:45 PM
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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?
# 48
SoCal-Phenom @ 01/24/09 05:55 PM
Any impressions from the visual side of things? Are the graphics and animations, in general, superior to SKATE 1?
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.
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.
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Thanks!
(figured the camera out now too)
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.
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.
# 52
spit_bubble @ 01/25/09 12:22 PM
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.
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.
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Anyone able to beat this yet? I even tried to cheese and use the 540 spins like you could in the first game...but can't pull them off either. It's gonna be very frustrating if this is the one challenge that keeps me from 100%.
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I was actually up on both of them, no letters to S.K. each. I hit probably something like 50 tricks in a row and they never missed, so I canceled. I found that to be the most ridiculous challenge I've ever seen. It's the only thing listed in my "Career" challenges, and that's pretty silly if I have to beat that to get any more.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that found it ludicrous. I mean, I was pulling everything in the world that I could think of and they'd both hit it almost every time.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that found it ludicrous. I mean, I was pulling everything in the world that I could think of and they'd both hit it almost every time.
# 56
oChaos_Nine @ 01/26/09 04:20 AM
Whenever they do finally miss and I get to set the trick I end up hitting the rail? I never hit the rail when trying to copy, but when setting thats a different story.
I had a lot of trouble with this challenge as well. I finally beat it by using 540s and triple kickflips. I really didn't want to have to resort to those tactics, but doing tricks and having them replicated for 3 hrs. doesn't sound like fun.
I was making such great progress (800 Gamerpoints already), but this Koston/Carroll Pro challenge plus the ~25 Throwdowns (1-on-1 S.K.A.T.E. games against ALL Pros) will likely prevent any chance of me getting the full 1000
I still can't understand why such challenges are in career mode (even in Skate 1) when its based almost entirely on luck against CPU skaters. Leave it to multi only next time please.
I still can't understand why such challenges are in career mode (even in Skate 1) when its based almost entirely on luck against CPU skaters. Leave it to multi only next time please.
# 59
oChaos_Nine @ 01/26/09 10:23 AM
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