http://www.ea.com/skate/theater.jsp?media=videos&mediaID=wh_skater
Skate 2
Coming January 20, 2009
Xbox 360, PS3
January 1, 2009 - Xbox Live Demo Coming soon! With contest
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/s/skate2/downloadandwin/default.htm
October 6, 2008 - Hall of Meat Details
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=250988
October 4, 2008 - IGN Skate 2 Preview
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/915/915914p1.html
October 4, 2008 - Skate 2 Trailer 2, New Gameplay Movies
August 4, 2008 - New Skate 2 Movies / Interviews
August 1, 2008 - Official Skate 2 Trailer Leaked
July 25, 2008 - New info from EGM September
Movies
Skate 2
Coming January 20, 2009
Xbox 360, PS3
January 1, 2009 - Xbox Live Demo Coming soon! With contest
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/s/skate2/downloadandwin/default.htm
You can score some great prizes in the Skate 2 Download & Win Sweepstakes, with six custom Skate 2 decks up for grabs as the Grand Prize. All you have to do is register your gamertag and download the FREE Skate 2 demo from Marketplace to enter.
Sweepstakes Entry
After you register, earn a sweepstakes entry by downloading the free Skate 2 demo from Marketplace between 3:01 A.M. ET on January 8 and 11:55 P.M. ET on January 15, 2009 (limit one entry per person). You can queue up the free demo here at Marketplace on Xbox.com and it will automatically download to your console the next time you connect to Xbox LIVE.
Prize Information
After the close of the Entry Period, we will randomly select the following winners from among all eleigible entries.
Three Grand Prize Packages:
Six custom Skate 2 decks
4000 Microsoft Points
Seven First Prize Packages:
Skateboarding gear prize pack consisting of Sponsor's choice of three of the following items: T-shirt, hat, hooded sweatshirt, knapsack, or Skate 2 deck.
2000 Microsoft Points
Forty Second Prizes:
1000 Microsoft Points
The Play & Win and Download & Win promotions from Xbox.com are an easy way to jump in and interact with the Xbox LIVE community. It's easy to enter and you could win some great prizes. Look for more exciting Play & Win promotions in the future!
October 6, 2008 - Hall of Meat Details
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=250988
The team's solution is to turn falling down into one facet of the challenge: fling your skater off the top of a bridge, or a building, or down the side of a mountain, and see how much damage you can do to them. Once they're falling, you can explosively launch them off their boards, and make them strike any of a number of inappropriate poses, from a cannonball curl to a flailing spread eagle, in order to maximise the bone-shattering and face-grinding that ensues. Welcome to the Hall of Meat mode: it's gravity, only fun.
and the game presents you with a heavy chunk of stats post-splat, including bones broken and medical costs accrued alongside the distance fallen and speed of impact.
October 4, 2008 - IGN Skate 2 Preview
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/915/915914p1.html
what you can do off your board is just as important as what you can do on it. As I've talked about previously, objects can be pushed and pulled around the world to create new lines or even entire new spots. The cool thing is that while you're able to use them for your own purposes, you can save and upload your spots online for other people to mess around in. Last time out there were pre-defined Own the Spot challenges. This time, it's your spot that you're challenging others to try and claim.
Undoubtedly the biggest community aspect of the original game was the Reel editor. That, too, is being added to. You'll no longer only have access to the five built-in cameras -- you'll now have two options of your own. The first is your own "follow" camera, where you can freely move the camera around in space and then it'll follow your skater on his or her way. The second is a tripod camera which allows you to set it up anywhere you want (within reason) and it'll stay put as it tracks your skater. Both are tied to your recording markers, so you can change their placement as many times as you want in a single replay, just as you could with the other cameras last time out.
One cool new element to the game that you'll be able to highlight with the improved Reel editor is damage to you and your threads. Clothes can get dirty and even become torn, and you can get cuts and bruises on your body (for custom skaters at least -- the pros will remain fresh and clean).
Speaking of cuts and bruises, another new addition to Skate 2 is the Thrasher Hall of Meat. If you crash big enough, you'll see your bail "score" pop up on the screen and increase as your skater takes damage. After you've stopped smacking into the pavement, the Hall of Meat screen will appear and tell you how "well" you've done. It'll show an x-ray view of your skater, with broken bones highlighted in red, and a breakdown of what you've done to the side. You can then take a look at your own leaderboard to see your best crashes, and I'll be surprised if this data isn't shared online. The Party mode will even include a game based around the Hall, where you simply take turns crashing in some pretty gnarly spots and fight to see who can wound their skater the best. Or should that be the worst? Whichever it is, it's awesome.
Money is going to play a big part in the game this time around. Whereas it was really only useful for buying new threads and boards last time around, it'll go a much longer way in the sequel. For instance, you'll be able to pay people to perform services for you, like emptying a pool or removing bolts from objects. Even better though, you're able to buy up certain pieces of property and turn them into a full-fledged skate park.
You'll of course earn cash through the normal course of your career path (whatever that may be), but you can also gamble your current funds to make some quick cash by betting on events. I'm also told that your online goings-on will impact your single-player funds in some fashion, though I can't confirm if earned cash will go into one bank account, if you'll just be able to gamble it or how that'll work just yet.
October 4, 2008 - Skate 2 Trailer 2, New Gameplay Movies
Double Your Bag of Tricks Gameplay Movie
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/40591.html
Trailer 2
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/39564.html
August 4, 2008 - New Skate 2 Movies / Interviews
Debut Trailer
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/37904.html
Realistic Skateboarding Interview HD
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/37911.html
Develeper Walkthrough
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/37909.html
August 1, 2008 - Official Skate 2 Trailer Leaked
July 25, 2008 - New info from EGM September
- Can get off your skateboard and push/pull objects to alter skate routes.
- Pedestrians move out of your way.
- No load times when teleporting to a session marker
- Play as a girl
- Tiger Woods-like character editor
- Default camera tweaked. New 3rd person camera
- Using EA's site for uploading videos again
- 60 fps
- Takes place 5 years later. City hit with unknown disaster and was rebuilt.
Movies
Skate Deuce Teaser
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/34267.html
What happened to that dude trailer
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/34266.html
What happened to the city trailer
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/34265.html
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