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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 for PlayStation 1
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 for PlayStation 1 lets you skateboard through environments full of rails, ramps and hidden passages. You choose a professional skater or create your own character and find lines that connect jumps, grinds and other tricks. Career objectives earn money: reach a score, collect letters or discover a hidden spot. Your earnings improve your attributes and equipment as you work towards unlocking new areas.
The manual is an important part of the trick system. You balance on two wheels to continue a combo even on flat ground. You can then jump again or find a rail, provided you maintain your balance and land properly. Repeated tricks lose value within a run, so variety helps you achieve a high score. Locations such as School 2, Marseille and Venice Beach offer different heights, obstacles and routes to explore.
Alongside the career, you can practise without a time limit and build your own skatepark with the three-dimensional park editor. Two players can challenge each other locally in games including Trick Attack, Graffiti and the turn-based HORSE. Connect two controllers for this; no Multitap is needed. The original PlayStation version supports the DualShock controller. A career file uses one memory-card block and stores progress for the professional skaters and up to four created skaters.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
The manual is missing from this copy of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 for PlayStation 1. That is why the product title says “No Manual”. You receive the game in its box, without the instruction booklet. This makes the contents clear before you order.
The original printed manual usually contains at least English and often around six European languages. The languages vary by edition; Dutch is not always included. This information describes the original booklet and does not mean that it comes with this copy. A copy with a manual is offered separately when available.
The history of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Neversoft developed Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, and Activision released it for PlayStation in 2000. It followed the first Tony Hawk game from 1999, which was called Tony Hawk’s Skateboarding in Europe. The sequel retained short sessions, recognisable skating moves and environments where you find your own route. Its additions mainly changed what you could do between two jumps and how much influence you had over the game’s content.
Adding the manual made longer combos across flat ground possible. The series also gained a created skater and a park editor. The original manual explains how to put a park together and how career earnings support your development. Existing skating spots inspired environments such as Marseille and Venice Beach. The presentation connected those locations with professional skaters, their individual moves and a soundtrack that brought different sides of skate culture together.
The second game was later adapted for other systems, but the PlayStation edition offered here is Neversoft’s original version. It should be distinguished from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2X and the much later Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 package. In 2020, Activision described the latter as a new remaster with additional features and updated presentation. Those additions are not part of this PS1 disc. The combination of manuals, career rewards and your own park is the historical expansion introduced by this second game.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
Tony Hawk’s Skateboarding is the European first game and shares short sessions, career objectives and three-dimensional skating spots with Pro Skater 2. The second game adds manuals, letting you continue a combo along the ground between rails and ramps. Created skaters and a park editor also give you more influence over the content. The first game concentrates on existing professionals and fixed levels; the sequel expands the connection between tricks and your own creations.
Grind Session also lets you perform tricks as a professional skater in three-dimensional environments. Its emphasis on street skating and competitions connects with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, while different riders and locations change the atmosphere. Grind Session uses events around the Vans Triple Crown as part of its recognisable framework. Pro Skater 2 builds progression around cash rewards and lets you use manuals to link different sections of a route into a continuous combo.
Street Sk8er combines skateboarding tricks with a route through streets and a clock that keeps running. Checkpoints extend your time in the Street Tour, making progress towards the finish particularly important. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 gives you more freedom within an area to tackle objectives in your own order. Both require a well-chosen jump, but Pro Skater 2 puts more emphasis on linking obstacles through grinds and manuals.
Mat Hoffman’s Pro BMX uses a BMX bike for a similar combination of open areas, objectives and trick points. You can design your own course there too, while professional riders represent the sport. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 stays with skateboarding, using grinds and manuals to connect jumps. On the bike, your posture and the movements of the frame and handlebars change the execution. The main similarity is finding a repeatable line past useful obstacles.
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX shares the open sporting areas and the unlocking of new content through objectives and competitions. You ride a BMX bike and use a trick modifier to vary your movements. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 divides its moves between skateboarding tricks and manuals, with money to improve your skater. Both reward learning the terrain, but Dave Mirra gives variation within bike movements a greater role than building a skateboarding combo.
