Skate 2 2009

Is it still worth playing?

EA Black Box's 2009 skateboarding game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, set in the open world city of New San Vanelona. You leave prison and set out to rebuild your career. You perform tricks with Flickit, moving the right stick in patterns, and points depend on trick height, length and complexity, with tricks chained into sequences and sequences into lines. You can also get off the board to walk, grab and move ramps and quarter pipes, and shift scenery to reach spots, though off the board the character is hard to control. Career mode has races, photoshoots and trick competitions that earn money and sponsors. Mongocorp, the company that owns most property, patrols its zones with guards who chase you. The camera can swing to an angle where you cannot see what you lined up. Objects you can move to build your own lines still make the city something to rework today.