Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X
Master challenges and perform hundreds of tricks with an intuitive and solid control scheme in a variety of realistic, obstacle-filled locations.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x takes full advantage of the powerful Xbox platform. 2x features the series' signature gameplay, intuitive controls, and combines all the levels from both Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and the original Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. You'll shred through more-populated environments and brand-new levels while sticking tricks with ultra-realistic special effects and smoother lifelike animations. System link gameplay intensifies the action.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X Accessories
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2X Reviews
Along with the excellent and well-crafted levels of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, you also get the creative and always-fun bonus levels of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x. After getting into music and reading, my hobby of playing video games kind of faded into the shadow of those two things. Highly Recommended. Great deal for the XBOX. I became so addicted to this game I played it non-stop until I had 100 % on all the THPS 2 levels and got all the THPS Tapes from THPS 1 and 2x. Although not as creative or long as THPS 2, these levels never dissapoint in the least, and you still have a blast playing them.
The only things I didn't really like about this game was that the soundtrack was a little lame and the Create-a-Park feature wasn't to comphrehensive and slightly limited. IM HAPPY I DID. Right after putting this game in, I was sucked into the world of Tony Hawk and skateboarding. Plus, to round out the package, you get the entire THPS 1. This goes well with Metallica or AC/DC. Trust me, when you buy this, you will not stop playing this till you have beaten every inch of this game, and then you can do Free Skate for ages and it never gets old.
But recently, I picked up this game used for about 5 dollars because it seemed like a good deal.
recommended to any THPS fan this game has more stuff, all THPS2 levels, all THPS levels, plus 5 more levels. it's got more cheats, wireframe mode, big heads, sim mode, extra sim mode, and more secret areas. this is one of the better THPS video games ever released. i've bought and played THPS, THPS2, THPS3, THPS4, and tony hawk underground. tony hawk's pro skater 2x is still my all-time favorite THPS video game.
The price of this game is so low (because it is dated), and the graphics are a huge step up from the Playstation and N64 versions, such as very detailed textures and even graffiti looks great. The levels are a nigh club in London, a construction site in Texas, a skate park in Tampa Bay (the skate park is also in Tony Hawk's Underground), and two fictional areas, the subway and a skatepark with large grinds. The makers of the game did not use the X-Box to its full capability, such as having limitless saves for replays, created skaters and created skate parks. You can skate through them pretty quickly, even with the upgraded textures there are no other improvements to the Tony Hawk 1 levels. The X-Box version of this game does a lot of things right and a lot of things wrong.
The game really needs to be divided into three parts, the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 part, that has eight courses to skate on where for each course, there are a number of goals to accomplish for each, such getting high scores by earning points from performing tricks, grinds, and jumps over gaps (like building to building), collecting the letters SKATE, grinding three rails, jumping over fire hydrants and various other things, they vary from level to level. Pro Skater is a skateboarding game like no other, first, chose from 13 pro skaters each with their own tricks, stats and special moves or create your own custom made pro skater. When you complete a goal you get money to gain cash that you can buy new skateboards, upgrades to better your skater and you can also buy bigger tricks. These courses are very lack luster and look more like they were rejected from Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1, which brings us to the third part of the game. There are no custom soundtracks either, which is a huge let down with the X-Box's hard drive able of keeping music on it. This game came out after Tony Hawk 3 had come out, and could have included several upgrades from the superior Tony Hawk 3 game. The second part comes after you complete the Tony Hawk 2 game, then it unlocks a new career, the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2X, which consists of five ALL NEW courses exclusively for the X-Box.
Once you go through three of the Tony Hawk 2X levels that unlocks the old Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 levels. Then have them skate in eight detailed skate parks (several more hidden). The game has twenty-four courses in all. There are new goals to do, but you do not get money for completing these goals.
This wasn't a flawless translation of the incredible original game, but it wasn't a bastardizing of its legacy, either. This looks every bit like a game that was originally planned, designed and formatted for the Xbox. As a diehard Dreamcast enthusiast who played through the original Tony Hawk 2 on that platform instead of the standard PSone, I wasn't expecting to be as blown away by the visuals as I was. The skaters take an eternity to regain their footing after a long fall and several of the level goals, especially the pro and sick scores, seem unreachable. This is not the case in THPS2X. It's relentless, a brutal learning curve that forces you to improve upon yourself or fail in an ugly mess. As the level loads, (considerably faster on the Box than on its older rival) you're given a laundry list of tasks to complete. Ever since the first game was featured as part of a Pizza Hut / PlayStation demo disc in early 1999, I've been completely and utterly in love with the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater line.
The view lags well behind your skater as he turns, jumps and performs tricks. Most glaring is the change in camera sensitivity. Once you've finished browsing the checklist itself, the player is asked to press of the "A" button and the infamous two-minute timer begins to tick your life away. Each skater comes equipped with eight grab, eight grind and eight kick tricks, one for each direction, (including diagonals) and the player cannot afford the luxury of pressing up on an analog stick and watching their on-screen character perform the trick assigned to up+right. When it's all said and done, a few minor gripes do not a bad game make. So I moved my left thumb down a couple inches to the Box's underdeveloped, cylindrical D-Pad. It's always been such a perfect formula, a flawless mixture of physical sport and mental planning.
If you missed out on this one when it was first released on the PSone, I'd advise you grab it while it's still around. Within your first several plays, the clock seems like a ferocious enemy, something you'll never be able to conquer. Otherwise, I'd say you should steer clear unless the prospect of custom soundtracks interests you enough to repurchase and replay an old title or two. However, one of the unlockable features of this Xbox remake is the entire first game of the series, as well as five new levels unique to this version. You're pressed for time every second you spend immersed in the world of Tony Hawk 2x. But, as you play deeper and deeper into 2x, the clock slowly and surely reveals the truth; it was on your side all along. The masters behind this title do get brownie points, however, for not only utilizing the system's "custom soundtrack" feature, but for smoothly incorporating it into the game itself.
I would've assumed that Neversoft would have at least incorporated the outstanding soundtrack from the first game here, seeing as how they were including every other aspect of that game. If I didn't already know the levels like the back of my hand, I'd have been incredibly annoyed with the number of times this happened, so I can only imagine what it must be like for someone playing the title for the very first time.I was a bit let down by the musical depth of Tony's Xbox debut. Not only can you quickly and easily listen to the music you've ripped from a collection of personal CDs, but each song fades out after two minutes in the career mode, like all the other songs in the game. Walls and ramps no longer look like polygons with simple textures wrapped around them.
More often than not, you'll be looking at your skater's chest (and the scenery shooting by from right to left behind his back) instead of his side, and the oncoming territory in front of you. The A, B, X and Y buttons, too, are more difficult to reach than the PS2 controller, making a quick pressing of the "grind" button more difficult than you'd expect. It's one of those few genres that manages to ascend from a lighthearted distraction to a legitimate, undeniable skill. Where the Sony's pad contains four distinct directions, the Box's various controllers feature a standard D-Pad, sculpted in the middle of a big circle. You'll never see the same two-minute run twice in a game of Tony Hawk; there are just so many possibilities, so many tiny nuances to alter and / or improve upon. If you can move past the troubles with the Xbox controller, the gameplay is every bit as much fun as you might remember from the first release, with the exception of a few common, highly annoying bugs. Rest assured, all the songs from the original PlayStation release of THPS2 are here in their entirety.
It was not to be, however, perhaps because of licensing issues, and what you're left with in the end is an extremely long game and an extremely short, repetitive soundtrack. While this may ease diagonal movement in other games, it's less than ideal for the kind of detailed, precise directional pressing I need here. Right out of the gates, the first thing that strikes you in 2x is the tremendous leap forward the graphics have taken since the last time you saw the game in motion. The colors and contours of that familiar wooden ramp look so good, you can almost smell the splintering boards themselves. As a big fan of the PlayStation's controller, I did have a small bit of difficulty adapting to the Xbox's larger, less D-Pad centered controller. One thing I remember well about this game at the time of its first release was the tight, responsive camera that followed your movements like a hawk (no pun intended).
I love this game and i will never dis it. It is basically THPS 1 & 2 in one and some extras in there, i mean literally, both in one game, all the levels. I bought this game from funcoland thinkin it was going to be great, I was soooooo wrong, it is AWESOME.
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