• Posted December 30th, 2008 at 14:21 EDT by Steven Williamson
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(continued from previous page) ...the upgrade of the control scheme obviously makes Skate 2 more a challenge than the previous game, but the rewards are there for your efforts. Aside from enjoying the satisfaction of pulling off the likes of a Lip-Trick and Crailslide while competing for high-scores and taking part in some scintillatingly fast downhill races, there's the added incentive of trophies. These range from the ridiculously simple, such as 'Skater Evolved', where you have to simply get off your board in career mode, to more time consuming ones, such as the 'Taste The Mongo', where you have to Mongo Push 5000 times in career mode. Really want a challenge? Then try and gain a gold trophy by achieving legend rank online! Not forgetting local multiplayer, which includes the Hall of Meat mode, where you compete for the scariest wipeout against your friends; and online multiplayer, which includes Deathrace - a mode where you need to survive dangerous downhill challenges, there's also co-op activities, spot battles and best trick battles to get stuck into.

Despite the wealth of content in Skate 2, it's still the actual skateboarding that steals the show as you Ollie, grind, board grab, hand-plant and finger-flip your way with smooth frame-rates across the skater's paradise that is the brilliantly designed New San Venelona. There's a lot to look forward to when the game arrives in the New Year, and we'll be bringing you our definitive verdict shortly. Based on the preview build we've played, it would be a disaster if Skate 2 didn't score extremely highly.