

On the one hand, the game is a refinement and an expansion from last year's well-received Tony Hawk's Underground. Tony Hawk's Underground 2 finds itself in a weird position.

Not to mention making Activision, Neversoft, and Tony Hawk himself very rich and very popular in the process. Going into its sixth iteration, Neversoft's Tony Hawk's Underground 2 is the culmination of six years or refinement, experiment, and expansion from a series that rewrote the way action videogames are played.

After an onslaught of extreme games that came and went and Activision's curious pursuit of the most eccentric regions of extreme sports, such as wakeboarding, the world is left with one - and thankfully, the best - of them all, the Tony Hawk series.
