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Tony Hawk's Underground 2 for Xbox Original
Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 for the Xbox Original is a skateboarding game in which you connect jumps, grinds and balancing moves into long combinations. You ride through urban environments, look for usable rails and edges and try to plan your line so each move follows the last. A sequence only earns its points when you land safely. The decision between continuing and finishing therefore stays with you throughout every attempt.
The story puts you in a competition between teams led by Tony Hawk and Bam Margera. The World Destruction Tour takes you to locations offering a wide variety of objectives. You can play as different characters, and some tasks change the environment. Alongside skateboarding, you can step off your board to reach somewhere or complete an objective. Moves such as the sticker slap then help you change direction again during a combo.
The classic mode uses two-minute runs with score targets, collection tasks and other challenges. This gives the same environments a different rhythm from the story. You can also create your own skaters and skateparks. For local competition, the Xbox Original version offers two-player split screen, letting you compete directly for a higher score, among other things.
Region and language
Our Xbox Original 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
Tony Hawk's Underground 2 for Xbox Original includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Tony Hawk's Underground 2
Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 appeared in 2004. Neversoft developed the Xbox Original edition and Activision published it. Despite the two in its title, it was already the sixth main installment in the Tony Hawk series. It followed Underground, which had placed greater emphasis on a custom skater, a story and the ability to step off your board.
The sequel chose a different premise for that structure. The World Destruction Tour pitted teams led by Tony Hawk and Bam Margera against each other and made outrageous objectives more important. Instead of simply following a professional skating career, you worked through a collection of goals in each environment. Different playable characters brought their own tasks. Meanwhile, the sticker slap and other added moves provided new ways to extend the familiar combo controls.
The game also brought back classic two-minute runs in a separate mode. This placed two stages of the series' development alongside one another: objectives in a story setting and compact runs with familiar collection and score goals. An extensive soundtrack and options to create your own skaters and parks supported that variety. On Xbox Original, head-to-head competition was played locally with two participants on a split screen.
Similar games for Xbox Original
Tony Hawk’s Underground focuses more strongly on the development of a custom skater finding a way into the professional circuit. Underground 2 uses a shared world tour with teams and outrageous objectives. The ability to step off your board remains familiar, while the sequel also brings back classic two-minute runs as a separate option.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 builds its career around short runs with fixed objectives and introduces the revert to link moves after a landing. Underground 2 includes a similar classic mode alongside its story. It also gives you later moves and the ability to travel through the environment without a skateboard.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 lets you explore an area without a constantly running timer and take on individual objectives. Underground 2 shares the freedom to ride around, but distributes its story goals among multiple characters and a world tour. The classic mode also adds timed runs back into the package.
Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland sets its story in connected parts of Los Angeles and adds rideable BMX bikes. Underground 2 instead travels between separate cities and distributes objectives among different characters. Both retain the emphasis on long combos and a classic mode, but the setting and reasons for completing objectives differ.
Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure uses the foundations of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 4 with characters and locations from Disney films. It shares rails, jumps and objectives within an explorable environment. Underground 2 offers more elaborate moves, real skaters and the World Destruction Tour, shifting the emphasis of both controls and presentation.
