I have to say it's been quite some time since my last post, it's now a month into the new year and it's been great so far. I've managed to find some time to play some of the games I purchased from before as well as the newest one I added to my collection just last week.

Well I picked up Skate 2 on day one with very high expectations due to the first game. If anyone hasn't played the first one I higly advise that you check it out. To me that game just redefined the genre and perfected the realism that us skaters have always wanted in a game. It had a lot of replayability even after the main story with the online and all the good skate spots in the open city. Playing a game of skate or a few spot battles always kept the game feeling new.



It's been just over a year and Skate 2 is now released. It incorportates everything from the previous installment and adds a lot of new innovative features and game types to the mix to give the players that exact same feeling from when they picked up skate for the first time. I'm impressed by the amount of detail that's in Skate 2. It has more of a realistic look to it whereas the first game had more of an art styIe to it. A number of new tricks to learn to add variety to the game as well the ability to walk around to find spots that were once impossible to reach.

Some of the features that appealed to me after a while were creating your own spots to share with your friends, the freeskate activities and the revamped online game types. I've already managed to make it into the leaderboards as one of the top thousand skaters for ranked jam sessions. You can now invite your friends to your party from the single player and start challenges in a matter of seconds. It's a very enjoyable game for casual and more experienced players alike. There's so much new content in this that I'll be playing this just as much or even more than the first one. If I had to choose between this and skate it has to be a tie.