Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x

It was released in North America for Xbox on November 15, 2001 as a launch title for the system.

• Title — Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x • Developer — Neversoft Treyarch • Publisher — Activision O2 • Series — Tony Hawk's • Platforms — Xbox • Released — November 15, 2001 • Genre — Sports • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x is a skateboarding video game with an arcade-style emphasis with regard to realism. The objective is to score points by successfully completing various tricks such as grinds, flip tricks, and aerials. Performing several moves in succession without any pause results in a combo. The player's score is multiplied by the number of tricks in the combo. If the player successfully lands the final trick the score is then banked, otherwise all points in that combo are lost. Three "Career" modes are included in the game: both full career modes from Pro Skater and Pro Skater 2, and a shorter career mode exclusive to Pro Skater 2x. Players are tasked with completing objectives in each level within the 2-minute timer. These include achieving a set high score, collecting the letters S-K-A-T-E, performing a certain trick on or over a certain object, and on certain levels, earning a top-three finish in a competition. Completion of these objectives is necessary to unlock new levels, skateboards, hidden characters, and stat points that can be spent to upgrade a character's attributes. Along with graphical improvements to the game's remade levels and character models, some minor cosmetic changes were made to the environments (such as the addition of an air traffic control tower in the level "The Hangar"). Some features from Pro Skater 3 were included: female characters could be created in Create-a-Skater mode, and a visible balance meter was implemented for grinding. The revert is not included in 2x, but two of the exclusive levels allow for vert tricks to be landed in manuals to similarly extend combos. A "motion blur" camera effect was included in the game, a feature which would later return to the series with Tony Hawk's Underground 2. Point bonuses, which were scattered around the original levels featured in Pro Skater, were removed for this game; unlike in the original game, however, players can utilize the manual on these levels resulting in larger scores. Though 2x featured no online play, up to eight players could compete via Xbox system link.