Downloading right now.

Played it...
Its skate...
but theres definately something different that isnt quite hit all the buzzers that the last one did
Whether there is actually something wrong or its just the horrible time limit only time will tell with the full version.
But i sure hope its good because what the Black Box team had was a formula that seemed untouchable, and would be a shame to see it drop down a peg or two

I am going to download this.....now.

only for gold members?!  forget that shit. 

You got it Jeff. Downloading now.

I'll give it a shot later tonight.

A nice little aperitif. Definitely picking it up, I loved the first skate. Though I must agree that running around on foot is a little too stiff.

Wow... after reading the comment from onemanfreakshow... I can't help but wondering if we're playing the same games. With the exception of the dialogue almost everything is better so far (though I haven't run into anyone acting like a jerk yet). To be fair, the dialogue in the first game wasn't good either. I don't tend to play skateboarding games for a Shakespearean deconstruction of quantum theory though...

I'm tired of people being overly conservative when it comes to game design.  It's like the only difference people can tolerate is the addition of the number 2.  First of all, you're only so attached to the first game's design because it's the FIRST GAME, stop being so sentimental...allow for a game to progress unless you just want to be playing Halo for the rest of your life.  I don't understand the "more of the same is better" philosophy.  Everything different about skate 2 is an improvement.  First of all, the frame rate is INCREDIBLE.  The bails look more realistic, the ability to get off your board is an added convenience, just because the Tony Hawk games supposedly started sucking after they allowed this feature doesn't mean the same for skate. (by the way, I thought the Tony Hawk games started to suck shit way before they added that feature anyway).  Honestly, I don't know why there weren't any handplants or fastplants in the first game, so the addition of these moves just makes sense to me.  Overall, the realism and challenge factor hasn't diminished, everything that made the first game what it is is still there...the replay editor, the skate community, etc.  And also, I don't understand complaining about the characters being "jerks," grow some balls kid,  I've never heard anyone complain about a game being too "rude," that's like complaining that a horror movie is "too scary" or some shit. 

By the way, the "ragdoll" physics made many of the bails in the first one look ridiculous, have you ever seen anyone bail in real life?  You're not just gonna go completely limp if you're 20 feet in the air, you're gonna flail like a madman and try to put your hands out in front of you or whatever you can do to lessen the impact.  It's the realism that made the first what it was, so I don't see how adding to that is detrimental.  And it's not a "park editing" tool, you're simply just moving objects around like you would in real life, if you were skating and trying to set something up.  I shouldn't care what anyone else thinks, but none of your complaints make any sense to me.  Plus, you're comparing like a 15 minute demo to a full game.  It's ridiculous to say that the pros are "stereotypes of themselves,"  why would the skaters want to represent themselves as stereotypes, and what stereotype are you referring to?  They're not going around saying "radical" and drinking Mountain Dew the whole time...plus how can you justify any of this with like the 20 lines of dialogue that are in the demo?  Whatever, it's your loss if you can't see the greatness of it.  But then again I myself couldn't see why everyone went so apeshit over Fallout 3 and Left 4 Dead...both were very mediocre in my opinion.

Yeah its another horrid Gold only demo...*sigh*

I'm getting it regardless of demo but, uuugh.

The first skate demo was the way to do a demo. 30 mins of a medium sized skate park with all the tricks in the game was awesome. So awesome that I never felt I needed to buy the retail game and could just play the demo a thousand times. Now they've gone and pulled an EA and limited it to 7 minutes of actual gameplay maximum. Fuckin EA.

EDIT: Anybody notice the shirts/hoodies that had the Thrasher Skate and Destroy logo featured on them? Now that's a proper throwback to the game that kicked off this whole realistic skateboard game phenomenon.

"The first skate demo was the way to do a demo. 30 mins of a medium sized skate park with all the tricks in the game was awesome.

So awesome that I never felt I needed to buy the retail game and could just play the demo a thousand times.

Now they've gone and pulled an EA and limited it to 7 minutes of actual gameplay maximum. Fuckin EA.

EDIT: Anybody notice the shirts/hoodies that had the Thrasher Skate and Destroy logo featured on them? Now that's a proper throwback to the game that kicked off this whole realistic skateboard game phenomenon."

You've got issues. I never complained that I beat it in a rental. I mentioned it. My only complaint was that 7 minutes is ridiculously short. Also it's actually 5 minutes unless you complete challenges, which add less than a minute each time.

"You've got issues. I never complained that I beat it in a rental. I mentioned it. My only complaint was that 7 minutes is ridiculously short. Also it's actually 5 minutes unless you complete challenges, which add less than a minute each time."

The first skate demo was good because it did essentially just that. Showed you almost everything and gave you time to get a groove going before it kicked you out. Skate2 demo doesn't do this. It doesn't really show much of the new features and starts off on a note of pressure to finish challenges or get booted from the game. That's not the relaxed attitude that is associated with games like this.

Also there were many circumstances that lead me to never buying the first skate. If XBL wasn't the fickle bandwagon that it is, I wouldn't have to plan out my purchases months in advance to make sure I own the same games my online crews are playing. By the time I could buy the first one, my friends were into the next big thing. Screw that.

It's a lot of fun.  Try the multiplayer it's awesome.

"Yeah its another horrid Gold only demo...*sigh*

I'm getting it regardless of demo but, uuugh."

Don't start that class warfare crap.

Sure the time limit bites, but at least it made me want to actually go out and get the game.

"The first skate demo was good because it did essentially just that. Showed you almost everything and gave you time to get a groove going before it kicked you out. Skate2 demo doesn't do this. It doesn't really show much of the new features and starts off on a note of pressure to finish challenges or get booted from the game. That's not the relaxed attitude that is associated with games like this.

Also there were many circumstances that lead me to never buying the first skate. If XBL wasn't the fickle bandwagon that it is, I wouldn't have to plan out my purchases months in advance to make sure I own the same games my online crews are playing. By the time I could buy the first one, my friends were into the next big thing. Screw that."

The worst thing for me is the timer. You get into a good line of doing tricks, or your off trying to explore, then sooner than you know it, the time is up and you need to restart from the beginning. Bummer.

If you'd have read all my comments, you'd see that I am going to buy the game, dude. They didn't even mention the handplants or footplants or any of those new moves. They're in the trick list for those that look for them and want to play through a few times to figure them out. That's hardly "showed".

There's demo, and then there's teaser. This sample of Skate2 is closer to the latter.

Thx for the heads up Jeff.

Never got to play the first one, nows my chance to try this analog trick scheme.
But gotta wait till next week  -_-

Seems the PS3 is last to get everything - makes me angry to think of the money I wasted on my bluray player

Yeah agreed, at least its not a killzone 2 demo, i said that before once.

And yeah people can make jokes about silver members being another life-form, but when it comes to online gaming...i go to the PC, so theres no need for me to be Gold, at all.

Like i said!! to counter my argument, i dont need a demo to tell me to get Skate 2 at all, but what if someone did? (they'd wait a week) oh yeah

the game looks fantastic!

I played the preview, and it looks awesome.

Played the demo, and it seems like skate.
Not that that's a bad thing, in fact it probably convinced me to pick it up some time, because I really want to explore the rest of the city besides slappy's skate park.