Story mode lets you roam free around the game's levels - well-known cities caricatured to host networks of grind-able edges, half- and quarter-pipes and the like - completing tasks for individual people you talk to, while Classic gives you two minutes to tackle various arcade-esque tasks, like collecting the five disparate letters of the word "SKATE" or setting high scores in various ways. By 'freaking out', aka 'throwing a tantrum', you get a small bonus when you start the next combo. But once you do get it (concentrate on grinding first it's the most immediately gratifying thing you can do), it's easy to become thoroughly absorbed picking off objectives. The controls are more complicated than ever - and more so on the PSP, where certain buttons have to perform a couple of functions to compensate for the loss of a second analogue stick and secondary shoulder buttons - so anybody who picks this up for the first time is going to find themselves in a bit of a pickle for the first few hours. In other words, it's a game about skating along, jumping, kick-flipping, spinning and "tricking" as you leap into the air above the half-pipes, grinding along rails and steps - virtually any straight edge, in fact - and connecting it all together by tottering along balanced on the nose or tail of the 'board - something called "manualing", made all the more difficult by the need to centre an icon on a pendulous balance-meter against its will to slide off to one side. Providing you can put up with the obnoxious nonsense that constitutes the single-player "Story", you'll have lots of fun skateboarding in the THUG 2 Remix, which is ostensibly just high-ranking-wry-pranking THUG 2 with a few new levels. But it's okay! Because the levels are excellent! And you can have the two-minute mode back!" Oh, well, that's alright then.Īnd, actually, it is. Why have you done that, Neversoft? "Well, um, er, something about the zeitgeist, skate culture, mumble-mumble. Real skaters were never a problem - mild-mannered Tony Hawk always struck me as a nice chap anyway - but THUG 2 kicks off as professional-crazy Bam Margera abducts pro-skaters and shanghais them into touring the globe performing skating stunts and doing "wacky" things, like throwing tomatoes at a bull's testicles.
Neversoft's Jackass-ification of the Tony Hawk series has been almost apologetic.
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