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No XBL = no purchase. It's the reason I didn't want anything to do with the first one, and I guess I'll be avoiding the second one as well. They can improve PS2 netplay all the want, it's not going to be as good as Xbox Live, and I'm not going to waste my time or money with it. Stupid decision.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ammadeau
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 looks great. I mean it looks really great. Take a look at this preview from Yahoo!, and you'll see that there are a lot of substantial improvements in this game. It's got the story-based gameplay of last year's Tony Hawk's Underground as its "main" mode, but you can also play a "classic" mode which is more like the earlier Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games. It's also got events that you can trigger in order to alter the level layout, similar to what we saw in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3. There are also a couple of new online multiplayer modes.
The "face in the game" feature is being improved now. In Tony Hawk's Underground, you had to upload a digital image of your face from your PC or a camera phone, and then download it to the PlayStation 2 using the Network Adaptor. In THUG2, you can still do it this way if you want, or as an alternative you can simply use the EyeToy. The EyeToy should make it quicker and easier to get your face (or your friends' faces) into the game, and also makes the feature available to people who don't have the means of playing the game online.
The only thing I wished they had improved is the communication aspect of the game. Apparently, there's still no support for the USB headset for voice chat. The inclusion of keyboard support is nice and has always worked well, but I would've really liked to see them throw in voice chat--it would surely benefit some game modes such as Capture the Flag. It was understandable with THPS3 in 2001 (the first online PS2 game), forgivable with THPS4 in 2002 (with SOCOM being the only headset-compatible PS2 online game on the market at that time), but by the time THUG came out in 2003, a lot of high-profile PS2 online games were already incorporating voice support. Now in 2004, almost every major online game released this year (apart from Final Fantasy XI and Capcom's games) supports the headset...yet the direct descendant of the pioneering PS2 online game doesn't. It's not a dealbreaker, but it's still disappointing.
I got THPS3 shortly after that game released (it was one of the first games I bought with my PS2 system), and I got THPS4 and THUG at their initial release, but I might sit this one out for a little while. I really do want to play this game, but I've got so many other games on my plate that I just can't afford to buy everything that I want. Since I already have three Tony Hawk games on this system, I'm not in quite a hurry to add a fourth. Also, this game is being made for the PSP, and I'd like to see how that version turns out...maybe I might buy that one instead of the PS2 version. I'm just trying to avoid the temptation of this awesome game. :) I'll probably rent it shortly after release, so if anyone wants to get some PS2 online gaming going with this, I'll try to get some sessions in.
As a bonified THPS whore, I'll be getting this on day fucking one.
But I agree with what Agent X said. No Xbox Live support in one thing...but no voice chat support for the existing PS2 version is shitty and all fucked up. Fucking Neversoft!
One thing that I would like to know however is....
Is the "double tap grind" glitch still retained in THUG 2? Please say yes :)
So where the hell is Regus?
So far the special characters look stupid, but others will disagree with me.
I mean, they got Jesse James from Monster Garage on some motorcycle looking scooter thing, some retarded kid in a chair (seriously, he's retarded), an old lady, Steve-O on a mechanical bull scooter (LAME), and Ben Franklin (the ONLY one that looks kickass). I know there's more, since apparently EGM says there is two hidden skaters per stage now
Is Phil a hidden character or just one of the regulars? Because he's the only one I'm looking forward to using other than my created skater.
Fatboy Power!
http://www.boomspeed.com/gigas2097/fatboy-phil-2.JPG
After owning and completing all five Tony Hawk incarnations, it's hard to get excited about another sequel when fresh, exciting products like Alien Hominid are looming on the horizon.
If I do pick up THUGS2, it will definitely be on the cheap.
Above all else, I'd like to see a scoring system that isn't seriously broken this time around. THUG's Darkslide glitch that reset the balance meter completely ruined all types of competitive gameplay.
At least the single-player mode is promising more meat than lest year's game, as THPS4 had more solo activities than THUG.
Finally, I thank god that Neversoft took the vehicles out of this year's version. Those missions were complete crap and a huge waste of disc space, time, development effort, etc.
It's so completely supr that I get to try out the xbox port of this today, hopefully.
Yeah, I'm that curious.
I'm gonna go ahead and get this for PSP. I got out of this series after 2, since 3 was basically... the exact same game... oh yeah, and so was 4. Seriously though, I heard THUG was pretty swank, and I'm a big fan of Bam Margera, so I'm sure this will be fun.
2 to 3 was actually a pretty sizable leap, if you ask me. Transferring grinds and freestyle manualing and such wasn't as big of a deal as the manual, but it's a hell of a lot more important than the spine transfers and skitching.
Though, even those might be bigger additions than slowmo and projectile throwing.