Finally! It has happened! MUHAHAHAHAHA! I don't have to bring out my Dreamcast every time I have a craving for Tony Hawk. That means a lot to me considering that I'm slowly moving to the Xbox as my source for entertainment. I've seen a lot of Dreamcast games get ported to the Xbox recently and it gives me great pride because that little system did have a lot of great games.

This revision of the popular game that was on the Playstation, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast has more than just THPS2; it also has THPS1 and bonus levels. It even has LAN (System Link) support so you and your friends can connect and compete. It also boasts better sound compression, better graphics and little to no jaggies.

What does that mean to you? Well let me do one of my patent pending Kilokahn overviews:

Graphics are simply amazing. Shredding from rooftops to traveling in the middle of the dark you get a realistic romp all the way around. You will feel at home if you're a skater or a skater at heart. It also seems the camera work during the game and on the replay has been improved. New option screens have also been added to make it even simpler to navigate throughout the creation process.

The sounds are improved and seem cleaner than the previous versions. The music makes you want to get some plywood and ramp off your stairs. New sounds have even been added to the game to give it a more realistic quality to it. The best part is if you get tired of their selection of music during the game then you can go to your own selection of music that you imported from the Xbox dashboard.

This will sound scary but the controls on the Xbox S controller seem to be better and easier to control than on the Dreamcast controller. When you first get on the game you can easily adapt yourself to its controls. The only problem I'm having is pressing start but that's a flaw of the Xbox controller.

Freshness is all abounds on this game! New sounds, better quality, more levels, a park editor that lets you do everything but make you the King of England. The best part is the movies and the near DVD quality presentation they show.

The game life will be long if you love to trick out! Many new levels with create-a-skater and hidden characters will equal tens to hundreds of hours of extra game play that will leave you coming back for more and more.

The game is a few years old but it goes back to the roots of THPS and will give you a reason to fall back into love with the franchise. I urge everyone to get a copy and make your friends get a copy too so you can System Link together for extra-long thrash sessions.