RIP Big Black

Skate 2 still holds up to this day

I hated the koston and carrol pro challenge with all of my passion back in the day

I admit, Skate 2 is a better skateboarding game, but I still got love for the first one

You can beat the game of s.k.a.t.e. with a glitch. Before starting the challenge go into the drainage ditch on your right, grab a metal barrier, drag it up top and put it in between the ramp and the original metal barrier. Koston and Carroll will wig out and bail on every turn. Fuck s.k.a.t.e.

Really wish they would release this series on pc. My ps3 doesn't even turn on anymore.

The security in the game is something i actually really like

It's a shame the filmer pack is no longer available for Skate 2. Skate 2 had the best ragdoll physics out of the whole series. I'm surprised you didn't touch on the Hall of Meat aspect as that was part of the fun with Skate 2.

There's a glitch u can do do beat the game of skate easy. U have to go down the spillway a bit and grab a bike rack and drag it back to the challenge area where u place it right in front of the other bike rack. You start the challenge and they always bail for some reason. It's a nifty trick

RIP BIG BLACK

Tip on how to beat the Koston and Carol challenge. Just keep doing a 540 into your trick. They will never land it

Damn the graphics still look so good for a game that's almost 10 years old. I love the golden light this game had to it, Skate 3 looked so bland in comparison

Better than 3 . Besides trick editor and dark slides and hard core mode

Big blacks got your back!!! RIP!!

The Half-Cab directions were right when you played as a goofy skater, but if you do half-cabs as a regular skater, they're reversed. I figured they just couldn't decide between the historically correct way or the more modern used "same as nollie" way.

You have to do 540s in the game of skate against koston and carroll. Just do a footplant as you land a 360 and they'll never land the 540.

I think the best way to beat the skate challenges was by altering the ramp in a way that made the AI always bail and beat the challange.

Ah, yes, the best game I've never got a chance to play... until it became backwards compatible on Xbox

I beat the game of skate by doing 360 shuv 540's and 540 triple kickflips and some really unrealistic spin combos. Once you spin 540, it seemed like the AI just gave up for the most part.

On the Xbox they did an update that changed the Koston and Carroll challenge so you start setting the trick. I think it also made it easier for them to bail. It's hard to beat it legitimately but not impossible. They can't land any kind of triple flips and usually can't do 540s. Other than that you just have to get lucky. First time I actually beat it Carroll says something along the lines of "best two out of three" so I pressed A thinking I had to do another round but it actually just retried the challenge. I lost the second round so I had to win all over again.

I love having the sercurity option on. When running away from them, it feels like playing the game of "cat and mouse" with them.

I just looked at your review ... I bought this game when it came out on the xbox 360 and now it's backward compatible on the Xbox One. Today I'm starting to play career again. Although games like Skater XL have been released, Skate2 is the best skateboard game - the best career, challenges and lots of fun. By the way: I made the basketball hoop challenge very quickly. The most difficult task for me was Vert with Vampire - jump up to window. So much nostalgia. I've gone through my career about 20 times and I still enjoy it over and over again.

dont let them get to you, never give in. They want you to doubt yourself #regularskaterights

The thing i like the most about skate 2 was that you needed to call this characters to come help you for exaple drain pools and stuff, I wanted that in skate 3 so bad🤣

I️ think Skate 2 was the best overall. Story was fun, good gameplay. Street spots were solid, parks were fun and soundtrack was by far the best IMHO. It just seemed a little more grungy vs skate 3 seemed really bright and colorful and seemed more for little kids. Skate 3 had the dark slide which was a fun trick addition but overall I️ liked skate 2 the best. What do you guys think ? All of them were great skateboarding games I like them better than THPS games

Great review as always! I always did nollie triple heel variations against Koston and Carroll in my playthroughs haha. Made it very easy 😅 but I had the same struggle the first time

NPCs can't do triples or 540s lol and the rail and ledge caps were a fun thing to film so Its nice to mix things up

I have played so much of this game I never want to lay eyes on it again in my life. It definitely is my favorite skateboarding game ever, but after playing over, god, it has to be at least a thousand hours, I am done with it for the rest of my life. Edit: The best way to beat ANY pro at a game of skate in these games is just to do 540s. They can't do them, at all, and they will do shit that is not even close to what you did, and miss every time.

In my opinion skate 2 is the best game ever made, it feels alot more realistic compared to skate 3. The caracters looks more natural on their board and you can really understand how much they have worked on the motion of the caracters, also skate 2 have so more good spots compared to skate 3 in my opinion. And this comes from a non skater, thx.

if you don't put the quarter directly beneath the backboard I found the invert challenge much easier.

5:11 AHAHA OMG the way he said reason was hilarious

There’s actually a way to beat carrol and koston just search up the challenge on YT and there’s a way to make them bail every time

Holy smokes I've never beaten the notification squad without notifications on before

In my opinion I love this game and have so many fun memories from this game

wtf? the invert on the back board took me just 10 min.. damn

The backboard phototshoot is the worst mission

*Skate 2 is now backwards compatible!* Have fun, kids.

If skate 2 had hardcore mode id never play 3.

Session is the greatest skate sim in the world, learning to play and skate is the closet thing virtually to feel like actual skating. It's early access on steam and I'd say anyone who skates would enjoy it. It's not a tricklining game, it's a skate sim. Putting on some tunes at night and skating the Brooklyn banks is so cathartic

What’s weird is the game of skate against Koston and Carrol, you go first on the Xbox 360 but last on the PS3

My friends and I were always so high when we played this...don’t remember if anyone actually landed any tricks.

I think it would be cool if you did a video / series similar to shred school, but from the angle of helping 25+ year olds re-learn when there getting back into it. Maybe go over tricks, or environments, what will be different than you remember, or specific approaches for those of us less limber.

So let’s get this straight... in the beginning of the game you are released from jail sentenced for skating that huge Dam. In the end of the game you go BACK there and literally film and take photos of yourself there again and after literally draining an entire dam.... makes sense.

also there's a glitch with the game of skate where if u skate far enough away that it needs to load to return to the table jump thing an extra metal barrier will spawn in causing your opponents to not even attempt the jump.

Never clicked on a video so fast

TIPS: (for anyone who comes back or new to this video) - 1) - (All 3 Games) If you do the down button gesture. it will make the NPC people run away scared. it's a good way to get them to move out of the way of things you wanna skate. i think you can do this in all 3 skate games but in know it works in Skate 2 & 3 for sure. Not 100% if it works in 1 tho. im pretty sure it should tho. 2) (In Skate 2 & 3) There's an option when you are grabbed onto an object to "Lock To Session Marker" which means everytime you go back to your maker it will move the object back to exactly where you had it so if it does move you don't need to worry about getting that perfect spot again. it will go back on its own.

I got stuck on that same game of skate, but there was a glitch where they would bail on any 540 trick

You skate man? Awesome. I like the concept of reviewing all skateboarding games ever made.

I didn't have trouble with these whatsoever and enjoyed like 95% of the challenges..

Thanks to this I was able to breeze right through that backboard invert challenge!

i spent hours trying to handplant that backboard way back in like 2009. funny you mentioned it.

Here’s A Little Trivia For You: Skate It On Wii & This Game Introduces The Low & High Camera Settings, Not Skate 3.

imho the skate 2 parks&city + the skate3 engine would be the best skate-video game

Also I figured out that the best way to beat that super hard S.K.A.T.E. challenge is to do all 540’s. The best way to do it is by moving *both* the sticks in the same direction that you’re turning. It takes some experimenting!

Also, stoked as hell you shouted out ValleyBoy at the end! That first clip with the bonk was beautiful!! If you want to watch a definitive full length video of Skate 2 I would definitely recommend ABD by BKS which is a favorite of many. It's insane how smooth and real they made it look. Also, I wanted to note that with the filming and key frames people often make the camera glitch when filming in order to make it look a certain way. I'll link a video with this comment to explain how it's done, but people often make the camera go under the lowest allowed mm of 24 to somewhere in between 19-10 mm most of the time while also being able to make a long lens that goes way over the allowed 75 mm to 200-300 mm and beyond. Here's one way of doing it: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jr6UksV5uJnZf5c.html&playnext=1&list=PL21CAC02369F62453

2 was the best skate game hands down by the way. Made 3 feel stiff and bulky and the bail system was tight. You can also do a quick 180 then set up switch and the character actually looked like he was skating switch, counted as nollie I think but who cares. that game would be the soul reason for buying a xbox360 today

Skate 2 best skate game ever Skater Xl and Session: Best skate game so FAR

The need to remaster it SV DAMN SON

the trick, pun not intended, with the Koston/Reynold's game of skate is to move the bi8ke rack a little bit further, they will bail everytime

Skate 3 was my first skate game I played. After that I bought skate 2 and boyyy I felt in love with the game. The city, the lighting, the soundtrack, the challenges, the contact system.. still love skate 2

RIP Big Black, a skate legend who didn’t skate

Wow. That game does look smooth and natural. Makes me want to play it, but I'm not a console guy anymore. Thanks for posting this so I can experience it 3rd person at least.

Been waiting forever. Better late than never, hyped for the skate 3review too

remember when jaws rubbed deoderant underneath his wheels to stop wheelbite? skate couldve been so much more realistic by adding this feature... "Press X to apply Old Spice"

My favourite person on KZfaq! Thank you for the consistently good content man.

If you ever go back and play that “can you spell girl” challenge just keep doing triple kicks and heels. Add 180s and 360s. They can’t do them at all. It took me a solid hour to beat it without that.

The original SKATE will always be my favourite.

the Koston and Carrol one is just a plain unfair challenge and almost everyone (including myself) just opted to cheating that one so that the CPU always bails. The liptrick basketball hoop one is broken too. The spot you have to hit is extremely small and precise and because the thing glitches out a bit from distances, it's not worth doing it legit. THAT one i DID do legit. It sucked. I honestly do find this game to be the best on the SKATE series with Skate 1 at 2nd place. Skate 3 was a broken mess for me and Skate It just plain sucked. But best skating game of all time? ...i prefer the fun and ridiculousness of the Tony Hawk games more than SKATE, as the SKATE series was just less enjoyable for me and definitely seemed like only people who want the "most realistic skating experience ever" and just want to skate around for hours, doing tricks and such without any goals or anything, would enjoy this more, since after completing this game 100%, i haven't touched it in years because there was really nothing else for me to do, the whole filming thing got very boring and online was impossible for me at the time and sort of still is nowadays (hurray for australian internet and dead servers). I like it, but i stick by the notion that if i want the "true skateboarding experience", i'd grab my board and skate for real, because if this went full on with the simulation, the dam jump and Danny Way challenges would be impossible as your skater should be basically dead after even attempting to land it and some of those challenges.

There is also an object you can move to help with the Koston Challenge. If you bring a separate rail up to the Rail they use to play the game of S.K.A.T.E, their Brains get wiped of any Skateboard knowledge and they just walk on the Ramp

Here’s a glitch to beat Eric and mike In skate. Once the game starts and you have your turn go to the right of the rail and table and go straight until you get to a path with a yellow rail on the side and go down the path with the rail until your time runs out. When it runs out and you get a black loading screen with the text boxes you have done it right. One thing that will happen is it will load a second rail and mike and Eric will both bail every single try, or there won’t be a extra rail but a orange barrier on the side and you have to get lucky that Eric and mike will bail so you can move the barrier (also the orange barrier will be there with the extra rail) I hope this helped anyone who was having trouble with it.

That basketball hoop challenge drove me absolutely insane at the time I don't know how I managed to do it

I finally figured out the Koston vs Carroll one. Just do triple flips and they won't land them. I'm literally typing this happy as fuck that I finally figured this shit out after years.

I found an easy way to beat the Carroll and Koston challenge was to do triple flip tricks. They bail every time

Yeah Valley! Fluckit represent!

Those 2 challenges will forever be burned into my memory. Didn't beat the SKATE one until my 3rd playthrough

I have a couple videos on my channel called FAKE SKATEBOARDING that are parts I made in Skate2, totally forgot about them till recently and it reminded me how realistic it was compared to part 3. I remember some of the tricks just being so challenging but looking so good when you land them. I'm disappointed I can't play my DLC areas without an online account though.

On the Backboard one I had no issues, I think you have to place the quarter pipe farther away from the backboard and your guy will kinda basically "Pull" toward it.

To win the Mike Caroll & Koston game of skate you gotta do double/tripple tricks when its your turn, they will all bail.

The filmer pack.. a forshadowing of future EA cut content practices

Great review radrat 😀

All this game needed was a park creator. Absolutely beautifully done and the lighting in the game was really awesome

in that backboard mission you have to hold the handplant button before you even hit the quarterpipe, it seems counter intuitive because youd expect it to just make you handplant the qp but it works, ive done it a bunch of times now

I personally love the fact you still get chased after you leave. Only police officers will, not security

With the S.K.A.T.E. challenge, i do a judo to add an extra spin and they will never complete it

I agree. Retry times made me want to quit after a couple of times. Not surprised about the Koston skate game, brutal beyond belief

i have the same exact calvin and hobbes collection. thats pretty cool!

I cannot play a game as goofy. My brain thinks I'm going fakie all the time. :)

I never noticed you’re cover the Fin.KL THPS2 in this review 😂😂😂

hippie flipping was really fun, you should have touched more on that lol

wish you covered hall of meat, it was such a cool part!

For the challenge at 9:00, you have to move the QP behind you

You beat koston and Carrol by either adding a 540 or a triple flip if you can, took me forever to completed that, gave up for a month 😂

Came to the comments to find the Koston/Carroll pro challenge salt. Did not disappoint. Fuck that challenge.

Dude the Danny Way challenges were my favourite. Sure its not realistic but it beats not being able to do anything cool like in Session. Endgame for me was just doing Dam runs

Can You Spell Girl? has to be a nominee for the hardest challenge in any game. Without a gimmick it's impossible. p.s. Koston and Carroll can't 540, you can. Koston and Carroll can't see any movable objects blocking the landing, you can.

Are you going to get around to Proving Ground anytime soon?

If you want to beat Koston and Carroll at skate, do triple flips and 540s. The AI has no idea what to do with it, and will just do a random trick and get a letter. Be careful when you win the game of skate though, the retry and continue bottons are switched (at least on PS3) from what they usually are. Why they would do this I have no idea. But it really sucks having to retry this challenge after being at it for 15 minutes.

As silly as the mega parks were, I thought they were Super fun

I remember spending hours on that Khoston Carrol skate game

I mean, when you do nollie 360 hardflips to easily win contests, yeah it is pretty easy. But you're making it easy. Do realistic tricks to try and win the contest, that's where the challenge comes from.