all games are not created equal

While Tony Hawk games used to be the epitome of skating games, but when skate entered the gaming world, everything changed. Skate brought the ideas of not button mashing to get points but flicking the joystick in interesting directions. It brought a sense of purpose to each trick, a 180 meant moving the joystick from south to north along the side, not triangle in the air. Skate also brought the hall of meat. Where as most games you don't want to crash, in hom it is a race to see who can get hurt the most. It is a lot like the mode in Burnout Take Down to rack up damage.

This comparision is for the purposes of the hall of meat and crash mode. While both offer the ability to destroy, Skate 2 has a better medium. In both games the player must find a suitable launch point. Where skate 2 deviates is that you can initiate the hom mode mid air. Then you can control is the character goes into a ball or is streched out. Also you can make your person roll if he is in a ball at the right moment. Burn out is interesting in that it has after touch and crashbreaker. After touch allows the user to control where the car goes in slow-mo and crashbreaker makes the car explode after it hit a certain number of cars.