
Classic What Tony Hawk's Underground 2 has going for it is multi-fold.

The effort, while recognized, is an example of a series that in many ways has perhaps run out of steam and good ideas, and fans of the series are likely to respond with a mixed reaction of disappointment, while grumpily trudging to the store to buy it anyway. On the other hand, it's hard not to see Tony Hawk's Underground 2 as Neversoft's hurl-everything-you-can-in-a-last-ditch-effort in the hope to create something new. the two-minute timer, for fans of the original four games. It's also brought back Classic mode, i.e. Neversoft has added new moves, created larger levels, and written a new storyline peppered with celebrities and punctuated with humor. On the one hand, the game is a refinement and an expansion from last year's well-received Tony Hawk's Underground. Tony Hawk's Underground 2 finds itself in a weird position. Not to mention making Activision, Neversoft, and Tony Hawk himself very rich and very popular in the process. Going into its sixth iteration, Neversoft's Tony Hawk's Underground 2 is the culmination of six years or refinement, experiment, and expansion from a series that rewrote the way action videogames are played.

After an onslaught of extreme games that came and went and Activision's curious pursuit of the most eccentric regions of extreme sports, such as wakeboarding, the world is left with one - and thankfully, the best - of them all, the Tony Hawk series.
