Tony Hawk's Underground 2: Remix (PSP)

This is the same as the PS2 copy, except for a couple of additional goals, i'm not exactly sure how similar as i do not have the PS2 counterpart. The story, as far as i know, is exactly the same. Tony Hawk and Bam are holding a World Destruction Skateboarding Tournament, and your expected to win it for them.

Graphically, this is as good as the PS2 gets. Very little pop up or glitches, detailed environments from Barcelona, to Skatopia and Las Vegas, and the characters are all well designed. The gameplay is brilliant. There is a story mode, where you complete challanges on the destruction tournament, such as scoring enough points via the various tricks, flips, manuals, and other stunts. Finding items, making jumps, or completing certain tricks. The classic mode is similar, but timed and void of story. There is the ability to create your own challanges, characters and skate parks, and there are movies to unlock too. Add to this, the unlockable characters such as Steve O on a mechanical bull, various known skaters such as Mullen, and of course, strange people in go karts.

The sound makes this game stand apart with a soundtrack of over 50 songs, including Jimmy Eat World, Disturbed etc, however, if you dont like hip hop, rock or punk rock, you wont like it. However, it is a fantastic selection and excellent choice, and you can opt to create your own playlist. Best bit is that you can even use your own photos on your created characters.

So any problems. If you hate skateboarding, probably wise to stay away from it. It can be annoyingly hard, and theres a lot of repeating, and loading is poor, but if you don't mind these, get this game. A great addition to any PSP collectors editions.

As soon I slotted the UMD in I was surprised at how amazing it looked and played, the amazing PSP screen worked really well with this game and it has only slightly dulled down graphics than the PS2 version of the game.

The first day it arrived the controls were my biggest worry. How would you be able to fit all the actions into a console without L2, L3, R2, R3 or right analog stick?
I felt sure that the game would not be awesome because of this but once again I was surpised. The tiny analog stick has two controls:
a) focus mode
b) rotating camera

It does this by how long you flick the stick for. If you hold it down in one direction the camera will rotate that way, if you flick it quickly the game will go into focus mode (slow motion).
It sounds difficult, yet is simple to master, and in no time you will notice how well the controls go with this game.

It is a very addictive game to play and you can skate each level for about an hour until you get bored, but as there are so many of them it has a huge lifespan.

The four extra levels are amazing, my favourite is the skate mecca "santa cruz", with "las vegas" being a close second, there are also a few more characters which are added on to the long list of original skaters, such as rodney mullen and mike valley.

The PSP console makes this game even better by being able to turn off the power, and hours/days later, switch it back on to pervent annoying load times, which take about the same time as the PS2 version.

The face mapping is made far easier on this version and looks great, all you have to do is take a picture, upload it onto PC and then upload it onto the PSP, but there is an even faster way if you have got a sony camera which uses Sony mb pro duo memory cards, as you can take the memory card out of the camera right after you have taken a picture and then slot the memory card into the PSP.

Because none of my friends have a psp around here I cannot explain about the Wifi, although it seems easy to work and create a group.

Overall this game is showing the PSP's true potential and also that we can expect alot more to come from this amazing console.