Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
| Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Neversoft LTI Gray Matter (Windows) Aspyr (Mac OS/Pocket PC) Natsume Co., Ltd. (GBC) Treyarch (DC) Vicarious Visions (GBA) Edge of Reality (N64) |
| Publisher(s) | Activision Activision O2 (GBA/N64) |
| Director(s) | Jason Uyeda |
| Producer(s) | Scott Pease |
| Designer(s) | Aaron Cammarata |
| Programmer(s) | Mick West |
| Artist(s) | Silvio Porretta |
| Composer(s) | Brian Bright |
| Series | Tony Hawk's |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation Microsoft Windows Game Boy Color Dreamcast Game Boy Advance Mac OS Nintendo 64 Pocket PC iOS |
| Release | September 19, 2000
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| Genre(s) | Sports (skateboarding) |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 is a skateboarding video game. It was published by Activision and was developed by Neversoft.[1] It is the second game in the Tony Hawk's series.
It was released on September 19, 2000 for the PlayStation.[2] It was also released on October 24, 2000 for Windows, with a Game Boy Color version being released on November 7, 2000 and a Dreamcast version on November 7, 2000.[3][4][5] The game would later be released on the Game Boy Advance on June 11, 2001, Mac OS on May 31, 2001, Nintendo 64 on August 21, 2001, and much later on iOS on April 1, 2010.[6][7][8]
The player can play as Tony Hawk and twelve other professional skateboarders. The player can also play as the superhero Spider-Man as an unlockable character. In South Korea and other versions in Asia, members of the girl group Fin.K.L are unlockable.[9][10] Like most games in the series, the player can do skateboarding tricks and grinds to boost their score while skating around the level. There are also objectives in the game such as getting a certain amount of score from tricks, collecting letters that spell out SKATE, and collecting secret tapes. Players can also create their own levels to skate on with the Level Editor mode.[11]
It is the sequel to the 1999 game Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. A sequel titled Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 was released on October 30, 2001. A remake of both Pro Skater and Pro Skater 2 was released on September 4, 2020.
Reception[change | change source]
The game was well liked by game critics. Critics said that they liked the visuals, controls, graphics, levels, soundtrack, and framerate.[12][13][14][15][16][17]
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 sold very well too. When it was released, the game was the best-selling game on the PlayStation for two weeks straight.[18][19] It was also given Platinum status by the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) for selling over 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom.[20]
The game was placed on multiple Best Games lists.[21][22][23]
It was also named Video Game of the Year 2000 by Electronic Gaming Monthly, as well as Best Nintendo 64 Game and Best Sports Game (Alternative) by GameSpot.[24][25][26] The game would win a Guinness World Records for selling over 2 million units and becoming the best-selling action sports video game.[27]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2". IGN. Retrieved April 8, 2024.
- ↑ "Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 Special Launch in LA". IGN. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Tony Hawk 2 Ships PC". Game Informer. Archived from the original on December 6, 2000. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "Games of November". IGN. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ↑ "The Games of November: America". IGN. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Hands-On". GameSpot. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 for Mac released". Macworld. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ↑ "GDC 10: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Coming to iPhone". IGN. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Why Spider-Man Isn't In Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2". ScreenRant. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
- ↑ "A Video Game and K-POP Collaboration Like No Other: FIN.K.L's Appearance in Tony Hawk's PRO Skater 2". TheKraze. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
- ↑ "Tony Hawk 2 Exclusive: New Tricks and the Level Editor". IGN. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
- ↑ "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Review". IGN. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 Review". GameSpot. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
- ↑ "How to Get High and Score". Game Informer. Archived from the original on May 14, 2008. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
- ↑ Fischer, Blake (November 1999). "Finals". Next Generation. Vol. 2, no. 3. Imagine Media. p. 118.
- ↑ Orlando, Greg (December 2000). "Finals". Next Generation. Vol. 3, no. 12. Imagine Media. p. 127.
- ↑ "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. Vol. 54. Ziff Davis. March 2002. p. 34.
- ↑ "Hawk on Top". IGN. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ↑ "THPS 2 Still at One". GameSpot. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ↑ "ELSPA: Wii Fit, Mario Kart Reach Diamond Status In UK". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on September 18, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "Game Informer's Top 100 Games of All Time (Circa Issue 100)". Game Informer. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ↑ "IGN's Top 100 Games of All Time". IGN. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Top 25 Game Boy Advance Games of All Time". IGN. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Electronic Gaming Monthly Announces the 2001 Gamers' Choice Awards". Electronic Gaming Monthly. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
- ↑ "Best and Worst of 2000". GameSpot. Archived from the original on February 13, 2002. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "GameSpot's Best and Worst Video Games of 2001". GameSpot. Archived from the original on August 3, 2002. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "Best-selling action sports videogame". Guinness World Records. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
