Skate 2 Impressions

[ExtremeGamer]

Skate 2 has arrived. Have you played it? If so, post your impressions here.

[GSW]

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Hopfully its not sold out tomorrow, as i will be giving some impressions when i pick it up... late friday/early saturday afternoon

[Spear]

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I'll answer questions for people who have them.

The game is sick. Must buy for anybody who enjoyed last years game.

- Getting off your board and walking around is worth the purchase alone.

- City still feels really big but traveling around doesn't seem like the chore that it was last year.

- I just got around to changing the in game camera angle to "high" and its a welcome change.

- Haven't messed around with the story yet, been too busy trying to find spots and just explore the city.

- All types of different skateparks are found in the city. Instead of just the one they had last year.

- Love how Habitat skateboards and apparel were added

- Tripod camera in the replay editor is well done. But for some reason I haven't been able to slow down the footage when using that camera.

- Uploading to the EA Servers is a lot faster than last year. Surprised its this fast even on release day.

[areobee401]

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Looking foward to playing tonight. Picked it up during my lunch break.

[GSW]

Re: Official Skate 2 Impressions

I'll answer questions for people who have them.

The game is sick. Must buy for anybody who enjoyed last years game.

- Getting off your board and walking around is worth the purchase alone.

- City still feels really big but traveling around doesn't seem like the chore that it was last year.

- I just got around to changing the in game camera angle to "high" and its a welcome change.

- Haven't messed around with the story yet, been too busy trying to find spots and just explore the city.

- All types of different skateparks are found in the city. Instead of just the one they had last year.

- Love how Habitat skateboards and apparel were added

- Tripod camera in the replay editor is well done. But for some reason I haven't been able to slow down the footage when using that camera.

- Uploading to the EA Servers is a lot faster than last year. Surprised its this fast even on release day.

so there are more indoor and outdoor skate parks besides Plan B?

[Spear]

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so there are more indoor and outdoor skate parks besides Plan B?

Six skate parks in total (that I know of). All of them are outdoor parks I believe.

- The Boneyard (more of a vert park I think)
- Lighthouse Park
- Dueling Snakes (old school type park)
- Slappy's
- Mega Compound (has the X-Games mega ramp)
- Sewerside Skatepark

I haven't spent much time in them but you can teleport to each from the pause menu.

[GSW]

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Six skate parks in total (that I know of). All of them are outdoor parks I believe.

- The Boneyard (more of a vert park I think)
- Lighthouse Park
- Dueling Snakes (old school type park)
- Slappy's
- Mega Compound (has the X-Games mega ramp)
- Sewerside Skatepark

I haven't spent much time in them but you can teleport to each from the pause menu.

outdoor parks are bunk... thanks for the info though...

my favorite spot to skate in the Original Skate was Plan B

[goh]

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What are the other cameras besides high?

I'd also like to add it's lame they're selling the unlock cheat for $5.

[gbx34]

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What are the other cameras besides high?

There 2 High and Low.

The High is what you would expect. As you approach a jump in the crouch you can see above your guy really well and line it up. When you switch from low to high it seems like your guy moves soooo much slower from the low camera.

[Senor_Herbatron]

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Really appreciate the impressions. I'll be picking this up around 7Pm est tomorrow night. Any of you guys play online? PS3 that is.

[aukevin]

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No custom soundtracks (that I can find) on the PS3 is BS.

[btown12]

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One thing I've noticed (and love) about this game is that the challenges in Career Mode seem much harder this year. I was able to pretty much cruise through each challenge in the first game but have spent 20 minutes+ on a few of the challenges so far. It's a very satisfying feeling to finally pull off a trick or a line after trying it 50+ times!

Also, being able to get off your board and move objects around to create lines makes this game worth the $60 alone. I've spent hours just roaming around the city, dragging around and setting up ramps, rails, picninc benches, etc...

Time to get back to playing, I've only been able to get about 6 hours in so far

[GSW]

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Really appreciate the impressions. I'll be picking this up around 7Pm est tomorrow night. Any of you guys play online? PS3 that is.

i do and a couple others will as well

i know aukevin does

[Bmore]

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One thing I've noticed (and love) about this game is that the challenges in Career Mode seem much harder this year. I was able to pretty much cruise through each challenge in the first game but have spent 20 minutes+ on a few of the challenges so far. It's a very satisfying feeling to finally pull off a trick or a line after trying it 50+ times!

Yeah the challenges are actually challenging in this game. I just spent about 45 minutes doing the Haslam challenge. It felt awesome to finally complete it.

[spit_bubble]

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My initial impressions are mmmmmmmeh.

Feels a too much like the first, as the new moves don't really add all that much... And it doesn't help coming across an area that I skated 1000 times in the first game.

The skate parks seem better, as does the city in general... Didn't even know you could change in game camera angle... How do you change the camera angle anyways?

Off board controls are downright atrocious... And the video editor honestly isn't all that great. I've had instances when trying to edit a clip and the camera will sort of jerk around for whatever reason and not stay steady... It's almost as if someone bumped into the camera man. Changing the camera didn't fix it either.

There's also been a high number of glitches so far... Like when skating into water, in one of the fountains... I sort of tilted over and glided along for about 15 feet...

And then there's the bail glitch that launches you unrealistically, which was in the last game, but not to the extent as in this one. Of course, crazy bails are a feature of Skate 2... For whatever reason.

I get the feeling that the ability to move things around will be the game's saving grace.

So far I'm not impressed. Seems solid, but only because the foundation they are using was already there.

This is for the PS3 by the way.