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was good at first

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

when you first get this game it will seem awesome but as you play it more and more it will become tiring when you cannot open the next level and have no idea how you accomplish the goals it asks. Tony Hawk 4 is much better!

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x On XBOX

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I think that Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x Is the best game on XBOX so far this game is a combined version of thps2 (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2) and also thps (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater) . This game has levels from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and Tony Hawk's Pro skater and has some new levles . Also this game has great graphics . If you want a skateboarding game on xbox get Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x.

This Game Is Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

THis game is the best game out of any other tony hawks for any other system!

Don't buy tony hawk 2x

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 18
Date: November 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Tony hawk 2x stinks for x-box it is a good game in general but for x-box it stinks

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 (Thps 2)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: September 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I really like the Tony Hawks Pro Skater series. I own Tony Hawks Pro Skater two for Nintendo 64, three for Playstation, and 4 for Xbox.I have cheats for all of them too. I am good at number 2 and 4.

Slightly Flawed Reproduction of the Two Tremendous Originals

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: October 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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. It's always been such a perfect formula, a flawless mixture of physical sport and mental planning. It's one of those few genres that manages to ascend from a lighthearted distraction to a legitimate, undeniable skill. 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.

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. 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. This looks every bit like a game that was originally planned, designed and formatted for the Xbox. Walls and ramps no longer look like polygons with simple textures wrapped around them. The colors and contours of that familiar wooden ramp look so good, you can almost smell the splintering boards themselves.

You're pressed for time every second you spend immersed in the world of Tony Hawk 2x. As the level loads, (considerably faster on the Box than on its older rival) you're given a laundry list of tasks to complete. 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. Within your first several plays, the clock seems like a ferocious enemy, something you'll never be able to conquer. It's relentless, a brutal learning curve that forces you to improve upon yourself or fail in an ugly mess. 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. But, as you play deeper and deeper into 2x, the clock slowly and surely reveals the truth; it was on your side all along.

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. 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. So I moved my left thumb down a couple inches to the Box's underdeveloped, cylindrical D-Pad. 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. 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. 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.

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. Most glaring is the change in camera sensitivity. 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). This is not the case in THPS2X. The view lags well behind your skater as he turns, jumps and performs tricks. 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. 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. Rest assured, all the songs from the original PlayStation release of THPS2 are here in their entirety. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

When it's all said and done, a few minor gripes do not a bad game make. This wasn't a flawless translation of the incredible original game, but it wasn't a bastardizing of its legacy, either. 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. 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.

what to say

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

what to say? the game was great you had some new levles and allthe old ones

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love this game its fun, its challinging. Thats why I want you to buy it and rate it 5.0 out of 5.

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2X Rules

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Tony hawks proskater 2x is cool my cousin has it and i played it a couple of times.It has awsome grafics I getting it on my birthday.If i were you i would get it.Its very fun and it has tony hawks proskater1 and proskater2 levels combined together and lots of new levels and theres new players i hope you like it.

Wake me when it get s good ! ......ZzzzzzzZzzZzzZ

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

HUH ?
What ?
Who ?

Ok maybe it is because I am not a skater, maybe it is because I am older then most players, or maybe it is because the game get boring real fast.

RENT
RENT
RENT
RENT

Before you buy, that is all I am going to say, RENT IT FIRST, really rent this first and you will see.

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