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If you want to create your own skaters or even your own parks, you can do that too. You can customize a new character and then play through a career just as you would with any of the other skaters in the game. The Park Editor has hundreds of pieces to choose from to build unique skating parks, which you can skate in solo or against some friends in one of the four multi-player modes.
Everyone Loves the Manual
There are plenty of other great realistic features in THPS 2, too.
“New tricks were added,” explains Willick, “including lip tricks, such as stalls and inverts, and true nollie tricks.
“The biggest breakthrough, though, is the addition of the manual, or wheelie. This allows you to link your tricks to do nearly endless combinations.”
“The best part of the game is the insane tricks you can put together [with the manual] to get huge scores,” says Rogers. “Every time I think I’ve done the best that anyone can do, someone at the office will beat it by 50 percent.”
“I’ve seen some players pull off sick 2 million point combos,” concurs Willick.
Even Hawk says that the manual feature is his favorite part of the game.
Top 20 in the Office
And how good is Tony himself at the game?
“Pretty good,” he says, “ but I don’t get the time to master every level. I make sure I finish the game whenever I get a final version — without using cheats — so I at least know where everything is and how to get it.”
That lack of complete mastery of the game by one of the best skaters in the world has to be consoling to gamers like Rogers, who haven’t gotten on a skateboard since they were kids. He says he’s sure he would “rank in the top 20 in the world … or at least in the office.”
A customized skater doin’ his thing.
It Just Feels Right
Aspyr worked with Westlake Interactive to port the game to the Mac, a process that Rogers says wasn’t easy.
“They did a great job of taking a game that wasn’t really made with multi-platform support in mind and making a program that just feels right on the Mac,” he says.
And, of course, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 will be Carbonized for Mac OS X. Rogers says that Aspyr is “committed to OS X, and all of our future games will support it, either through Carbon or Cocoa.”
Tony Loves Macs
“Finally!” Hawk responded when asked how he felt about his game coming to the Mac. “I’ve been using Macs since 1992 because of their obvious ease of use and their awesome graphics capabilities.”
With a Power Mac G4 and a Power Mac G4 Cube on his desktop and a Titanium PowerBook G4 to take on the road, Hawk is certainly well equipped to play his game.
And how about the future of Tony Hawk games for the Mac?
It looks rad, according to Rogers. “We certainly hope Tony Hawk turns into a successful franchise on the Mac,” he says.
The man himself.
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Tony has been using Macs since 1992. He currently owns a Power Mac
G4 — loaded with a 20 GB hard drive and 256 MB of RAM and hooked to an Apple
Cinema Display, a Que! FireWire CD-RW drive, a UMAX scanner, and a VST 30 GB
external FireWire drive — a Power Mac G4 Cube, and a fully loaded Titanium
PowerBook G4.
He says that “the G4 with a Super Drive will definitely be my next purchase.” As for applications, he uses Final Cut Pro to edit his skateboarding videos, iTunes to categorize and play his music, Netscape Communicator to surf the web, Microsoft Word for word processing, Adaptec Toast to burn CDs, and Adobe Photoshop and Quark Xpress for image editing. |
Want to know more about the pro skaters and the parks in THPS 2? Read on to find out. The Skaters Tony Hawk: We don’t really have to explain who he is, do we? Be sure to check out his bio for an in-depth look at the guy. Bob Burnquist: Bob is from Brazil. He has a unique style that always amazes onlookers. Steve Cabellero: Steve has been skating since the 1970s. He holds many world records, including his boardslide of a 44-stair rail. Kareen Campbell: Kareem is a true street skater who was born in New York City and was raised in Los Angeles. Rune Glifberg: Rune hails from Copenhagen and loves vertical skateboarding in parks. Eric Koston: People call Eric a “skateboarding chameleon” for his ability to mimic other riders’ tricks. Bucky Lasek: Bucky honed his skills on the mean streets of Baltimore. Rodney Mullen: Rodney is known as “the godfather of technical street skating.” He patented such moves as the kickflip, darkslide, and casper. Chad Muska: Chad is an enthusiastic street skater from Las Vegas. Andrew Reynolds: He’s only been a pro for a few years, but Andrew has already earned himself a reputation as the kind of guy who’s willing to skate over gigantic gaps and down huge flights of stairs. Geoff Rowley: Geoff is a British skater who happens to like huge staircases too. Elissa Steamer: Elissa is the first woman to have a pro model street board produced with her name on it. Jamie Thomas: He’s not only a professional skater, but Jamie has also directed and edited six skateboarding videos as well. The Parks The Hangar: Located in Mullet Falls, Montana, this old military base is home to a couple decrepit helicopters and planes for your grinding pleasure. School II: This school is in located in southern California, where many professional skaters got their starts. See if you can find your way into the gym. Marseille: Ever want to skate around France? Here’s your opportunity. New York City: Want to become the ultimate urban skate warrior? Check out these mean streets. Venice Beach: Another breezy southern California location, home of weightlifters, rollerbladers, and plenty of skateboarders. Skate Street: The ultimate indoor skating park. Philadelphia: The City of Brotherly Love is home to plenty of skateboarders and features a pretty rough urban jungle of its own. Bullring: An enormous, unused bullfighting stadium in Mexico. Say, there wouldn’t be any stray bulls wandering around here, would there? Chopper Drop: This is an enormous half-pipe located in the middle of the ocean not too far from Hawaii (hence the need to drop you in by helicopter). Skate Heaven: The ultimate skater nirvana, this place is composed of the best parts of many real life locations that skateboarders love. Looking for cheats or skatethroughs? Planet Tony Hawk has plenty of inside information, like how you can unlock an 80s version of Tony Hawk or even the incredibly agile Spider-Man, who’s not too bad on a board himself. The PC codes will work in the Macintosh version. |
 PowerPC G3 processor or better Mac OS X (or Mac OS 8.5 or higher) 32MB of RAM |
Tony Hawk’s Bio
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 Demo
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