The original Underground's big innovation was its new story mode, and Underground 2 will pick right up where the first game left off with a new tale of love and loss...or at least a story of more skateboarding. You'll again be playing the rookie who you took to pro status the first time around, although in the grand scheme of things--that is, next to Tony Hawk himself--you're still pretty small time. Through a bizarre series of events, you'll get pulled into a skating tournament of sorts called the "World Destruction Tour," being spearheaded by Hawk and that old jackass Bam Margera. Each character will lead a team of pro skaters. You'll start out in the story mode skating for Mr. Hawk as you travel to various hot spots and inflict your deck on the hapless populace.
Levels in THUG 2 will also be more interactive this time around. Lots of smaller elements in the environment will be breakable or otherwise rigged so you can mess with them. For instance, doing a spin move on top of a fire hydrant makes water shoot up like a geyser. Each level will also have one major element that will open up a big new area. In the Boston area, we saw how the player could light his deck on fire (by skating through an open flame) and then grind on two old cannons that just happened to contain live ammo. These cannons fired, bringing down part of a partially constructed building and opening it up so we could skate around inside of it.
I enjoyed the first game. I still have to find all the gaps. But other then that I beat the entire thing on "sick" difficulty and no walkthrough. Probably gonna end up playing THUG2 as well.
I have no sense of decency. This way , all my other senses are enhanced!
