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Echodork · 10-25-2004, 11:38 AM

I thought that the stat-boost challenges in THUG 1 were pretty much cake... I had almost maxed my stats in the first level just by tricking around. The challenges in THUG 2 are no joke, at least on sick mode. You need to bust a three million point combo to max out one of your stats (speed? air? I forget). You have to do 25 flip tricks in the same combo to max out Flip. I have yet to max any of my stats, and I've been playing it a while.

THUG 2 introduced a lot of new elements, but most of them are pretty minor. You can back/front/sideflip as part of your air tricks now (and while you're doing other tricks). You can sticker plant, and you can Natas Spin on posts and fire hydrants. There's Focus Mode, where you slow down time to increase your grind/manual balance. You can swap out with pro skaters and hidden characters, most of which are sorta cheesy but fun to use. There's both Story Mode and Classic Mode, where you have 2:00 to accomplish goals like in the previous games.

All in all, THUG 2 feels like a solid culmination for the series. It has all the best parts of the previous games (the training level is an exact replica of The Warehouse from THPS 1), and the controls have been finely tuned for good gameplay. Buy THUG 2 not because it does anything NEW, but because it does everything RIGHT.

10-25-2004, 11:38 AM	#3 (permalink)
Echodork Tilted	I thought that the stat-boost challenges in THUG 1 were pretty much cake... I had almost maxed my stats in the first level just by tricking around. The challenges in THUG 2 are no joke, at least on sick mode. You need to bust a three million point combo to max out one of your stats (speed? air? I forget). You have to do 25 flip tricks in the same combo to max out Flip. I have yet to max any of my stats, and I've been playing it a while. THUG 2 introduced a lot of new elements, but most of them are pretty minor. You can back/front/sideflip as part of your air tricks now (and while you're doing other tricks). You can sticker plant, and you can Natas Spin on posts and fire hydrants. There's Focus Mode, where you slow down time to increase your grind/manual balance. You can swap out with pro skaters and hidden characters, most of which are sorta cheesy but fun to use. There's both Story Mode and Classic Mode, where you have 2:00 to accomplish goals like in the previous games. All in all, THUG 2 feels like a solid culmination for the series. It has all the best parts of the previous games (the training level is an exact replica of The Warehouse from THPS 1), and the controls have been finely tuned for good gameplay. Buy THUG 2 not because it does anything NEW, but because it does everything RIGHT.