Are you ready to thrash te streets and do some serious sidewalk shreddin!? If so, Skate Or Die 2 is the raddest, baddest, most totally insane game to play! But seriously, folks, this is a great game. Despite some obvious unrealities (I'll go into these later), you can really get into this game. I am not quite sure how long I have had this game, but I have only been playing it for about 2 months and I love it. It is totally tubular to the max! There are several, 5 to be exact, colorful skating characters. There is a fairly interesting storyline, and the levels are all very unique (at least 1-4 are). Also the ramp mode is good.

THE VILLAINS      Icepick. The definitive face of evil in this game. As one of the toughest bullys on this side of the town, he has the duty to call you a poseur and kidnap your girlfriend, which he executes rather well. Among his comrades are generic dudes in green and red shirts who do everything. Whether the job is to throw eggs at you or roll by you, the generic boys can handle it. Also, Icepick manages to show up everytime your life meter drops to zero, and shout this omnious phrase: "SORRY POSEUR, BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME"

THE HEROES      The reason I say heroes is that in this game, skateboarding is more than a sport, or a mode of transportation, it is a war. the heroes of Skate or Die 2 are you, a bold and beutiful hero in red, and CJ, a foxy you thrasher with plenty of skill. "But don't let CJ's good looks fool you, she'll skate you into the ground". CJ may be a hero, but that doesn't mean Icepick and his band of onry generics can't kidnap her and keep her on the fifth floor of a building. That is about it for the heroes.

Yes, that's right friends, meet the funding for this marvelous game: Tacos, CD's, Cassete Tapes, and Cheese Fries. Now, this would make complete sense to me if you didn't find these items on the ground. The food is probably fully of parasites and rodent feces, and any music thrown on the ground is probably yanni, or John Tesh. One big clue of this is that none of the generic skaters pick this stuff up,

not even Rodney or his too-cool-for-words son Lester would pick this stuff up, even though they do accept it as valid currency. I guess dirty food and used music are only what the underground good skaters are into, because the mayor laughed when you tried to buy a building permit with one.