Tony Hawk's Underground 2

Tony Hawk Underground 2 (or abbreviated THUG2) is a skateboarding game and is the 6th game in Neversoft's Tony Hawk's series. It is the sequel to Tony Hawk Underground and loosely continues the story from the first game.

Story Mode

Nothing weird going on here

You begin the game by creating a character, or using the default created skater. The game starts when your created skater (or the default) is seen ripping it up at a local spot, and is promptly grabbed and tossed into a black van. Inside you find other skaters who have been kidnapped. Then, Bam Margera and Tony Hawk explain their plans for the first annual World Destruction Tour, a "sick-as-hell" around-the-world skateboarding tour. The main goal of the World Destruction Tour is to create havoc, and have a good time. The skaters then split into two teams, Team Hawk and Team Bam, and you are picked last out of the group, but join Team Hawk. The tour goes to real world locations like Boston, Mexico, Australia, New Orleans, and more, with the two teams competing for points by doing silly and dangerous stunts. The story is very lighthearted and just plain silly at times, featuring such characters like Big Foot, and skeletons doing the bidding of the dead. You briefly join Team Bam but it doesn't work out, and you rejoin Team Hawk. Later in the game, the teams meet Nigel Beaverhausen, a strange documentarist, who wants to film the tour for the public. Both teams refuse, and instead play a joke on him. After meeting with him the second time they agree, but only because he promises to pay for the whole trip. The game ends at Skatopia, a skaters heaven. Here, your character ruins Bam's planned firework destruction of the place when he gets out of control, thus ending the Destruction Tour.

Gameplay

Damn kids!

You can skate around in a 3D environment modeled after various cities and attempts to complete various goals. Most goals involve skating on or over various objects or performing combos. In this game you can play as mutiple characters in the story mode as you find them and not all of them use skateboards so you get to ride new vehicles (like a battery powered wheelchair). New features have been added to the series such as new tricks like flips and rolls. Another new feature is a graffiti spray mechanic, that allows you to create a tag and spray it wherever you desire. When you fall off of your board you can perform a 'freak out' where you get angry and get points which then can be used for a combo. You can also climb up ledges and shimmy, creating more opportunities for skating.

Classic Mode

As well as the story you can also play the classic mode. which allows players to skate through both new and remade classic levels in the traditional 10-goal, two-minute time limit mode which where included in the first of the Tony Hawk games. Some of the levels in classic mode are remakes from other Tony Hawk games.

Soundtrack

• 25 ta Life - Over the Years
• 3 Inches of Blood - Deadly Sinners
• Aesop Rock - No Jumer Cables (DJ Pawl Remix)
• Atmosphere - Trying to Find a Balance
• Audio Two - Top Billin'
• Brand Nubian - Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down
• Camaros - Cheesecake
• The Casualties - Unknown Soldier
• Cut Chemist - Drums of Fire
• The D.O.C. - Whirlwind Pyramid
• Das Oath - Awesome Rape
• Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
• Dead End Road - Sin City
• The Distillers - Beat Your Heart Out
• Disturbed - Liberate
• Diverse - Certified
• The Doors - Break on Through
• The Explosion - Here I Am
• Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
• Fear - I Love Livin' in the City
• Frank Sinatra - That's Life
• The Germs - Lexicon Devil
• Grand Puba - I Like It
• Handsome Boy Modeling School - Holy Calamity (Bear Witness II)
• This Hiss - Back on the Radio
• Jimmy Eat World - Pain
• Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
• Joy Division - Warsaw
• Lamb of God - Black Label
• Less Than Jake - That's Why They Call it a Union
• Libretto - Volume
• The Living End - End of the World
• Living Legends feat. Slug - Night Prowler
• Melbeatz feat. Kool Savas - Grind On
• Melvins - Sweet Willy Rollbar
• Metallica - Whiplash
• Mike V. & The Rats - Never Give Up
• Ministry - No
• Nebula - So It Goes
• Operatic - Interested in Madness
• Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Soul Brothers #1
• Ramones - Rock 'n' Roll High School
• Rancid - Fall Back Down
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Power of Equality
• Steel Pulse - Born fe Rebel
• The Stooges - 1970
• The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
• The Suicide Machines - High Anxiety
• Ultramagnetic MC's - Ego Trippin'
• Violent Femmes - Add It Up

Unlockables

Tony Hawk's Underground 2 features many unlockables. Most characters are unlocked by being discovered in story mode, but some are unlocked upon completion of the game, on different difficulty settings. There are also levels that can be unlocked upon completing Story Mode.

Secret Characters:

• Benjamin Franklin
• Bull Fighter
• Graffiti Tagger
• Jesse James
• Jester
• Nigel Beaverhausen
• Paulie "Wheels Of Fury" Ryan
• Ryan Sheckler
• Phil Margera
• Shrimp Vendor
• Alien
• Alien Doctor
• Shrek
• Geeky Kid
• Space Monkey

Pro Skaters:

• Tony Hawk
• Bob Burnquist
• Eric Koston
• Bam Margera
• Rodney Mullen
• Chad Muska
• Mike Vallely

Levels

• Training (An expanded version of a level called "Warehouse" in THPS 1)
• Boston
• Berlin
• Australia
• New Orleans
• Skatopia
• Pro Skater
• The Triangle
• Santa Cruz (THUG 2 Remix only - Would later appear as a Classic Mode level in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland)
• Atlanta (THUG 2 Remix only - Would later appear as a Classic Mode level in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland)
• Kyoto (THUG 2 Remix only - Would later appear as a Classic Mode level in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland)
• Las Vegas Casino (THUG 2 Remix only - Would later appear as a run down Casino in Tony Haw's American Wasteland)

Classic Mode Levels:

• School (of THPS1)
• Downhill Jam (of THPS1)
• Philadelphia (of THPS2)
• Canada (of THPS3)
• Airport (of THPS3)
• Los Angeles (of THPS3)