In the wake of a sea of iPad announcements, Activision has finally released Tony Hawk’ Pro Skater 2 for the iPhone. Tony Hawk himself announced the coming of the game earlier this month.
The new iPhone version carries both traditional control configurations as well as iPhone-specific accelerometer controls. Features include:
- Ride as Tony Hawk, one of the greatest skateboarding icons of all time.
- Skate as one of 12 other featured pros.
- Master signature pro moves and hundreds of tricks including nose/tailslides, nose/bluntslides, lip tricks, nollies, manuals and more.
- Earn virtual cash to purchase dozens of additional in-game moves and alternate boards.
- Over 13 epic environments to skate.
We haven’t had time to spend any time with the game ourselves, so will report back later today. The first forum impression from debtOFskittles is quite positive:
so I’ve played through the first skate park, and I’m finding the controls very responsive, and the framerate is buttery smooth (on my 2g itouch)… graphics are, shall i say, familiar, as in nothing special (i wish they’d reworked the colors a bit, like gameloft did in Rayman) but it’s obviously the gameplay that’s the most important here, and it’s really good. I personally think the buttons look ugly. I’d say that the onscreen buttons is a much better control method than the accelerometer, since I encountered some weird kinks in that… the game wasn’t made for that kind of input. But anyhow, the game’s all here, and I like it!
More impressions should filter into the discussion thread.
App Store Link: Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, $9.99
