Mat Hoffman 2

by Activision

Product Features

• Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2

Product Details

• ASIN: B00005NOFS
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,729 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #77 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Racing

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Fans of extreme-sports games looking for a diversion from Tony Hawk will want to sign up for the road trip in Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2, in which you'll join 11 other riders on a tricked-out tear across the U.S.--from Oklahoma City to Hawaii.

But before you can hang with the likes of Mat "The Condor" Hoffman or Ruben "Pollo" Alcantara, it's advisable to practice your chops on the Free Ride or Session modes, especially if you're a newcomer to tricks-based sports games. We spent a good amount of time on Free Ride's open-ended play time to master the complicated sets of controller taps needed to achieve trick points.

The levels that you can ride in either Session or Free Ride depend on what you've unlocked in Road Trip. To get to the next destination, you'll need to complete a set of four challenges not once, but three times (in rookie, semipro, and pro). That can be a daunting challenge, especially for beginners, and for more experienced players it can get a little tedious as you search for the final trick that will push you to the next level. That said, after building some new calluses, we found a satisfying BMX groove and zoomed along on our road trip.

The game also includes several multiplayer options, including HORSE, Tag, Halfpipe Hell, Graffiti War, and Push, where you try to out trick your opponent and make his side of the screen smaller by increasing your side of the screen. Graphically, the game detail is superb--from the bikes and riders to the glitzy lights of the Las Vegas background. Our one major technical beef came from not being able to use our own soundtrack, but the game is populated with some fine tunes, ranging from LL Cool J to Iggy Pop. --Agen Schmitz

Pros:

• As tricky and fun to master as Tony Hawk
• Fantastic graphics--from backgrounds to riders
• Numerous multiplayer games

Cons:

• Can be frustrating for beginners to extreme-sports games
• You can't set your own soundtrack

Note: This review refers to the Xbox version of this game.

Product Description

Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I am so lucky, October 21, 2002

By 

bfc (Wildwood, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mat Hoffman 2 (DVD-ROM)

I never would have bought this game for myself. I can't decide if it was out of selfish or generous intent, but my 8 year old son bought this game for me for my birthday. I am so lucky. He and I are huge fans of x-games and good video games on any platform, but I had no interest in this title (prior to owning it).

I've been playing video games for over 20 years and even compensating for the state of technology at any given time, this may be, in my opinion, the all-time best game ever.

It is so much fun, so real-feeling...I always thought the "lines" (path a person chooses through the course) were a commentator's concept, but with this game you see them, feel them.

It is incredible. Makes me feel like I can actually do the tricks in real life. I hopped on my son's skateboard in the living room and nearly killed myself as a result.

Graphics, gameplay, sound, music, cohesiveness, variety and options, controls, concept, execution, this game has it all.

Hopefully some day I will be bored with this game and can go back and finish Warcraft 3 and Max Payne which I had recently bought and was playing on the PC before this.

5.0 out of 5 stars sweet, August 26, 2006

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Yevgeniy Mednik - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Mat Hoffman 2 (DVD-ROM)

THIS GAME IS TIGHT. okay to the bmx ppl out there this one is most probably the best bmx game out there. Not that mat hoffman himself is any better than miracle boy Dave Mirra but Mat's game is! This game has everything all the other bmx games has but this has one other thing that puts it above all the others, flow... u can see it in the rotations. My favorate tricks were 360s 540s 720s 900s cuz of this i even pulled a 1080. this flow made the game fun and realistic. I can play it for hours

3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre title, September 5, 2003

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TwistaG "Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore" (Moncks Corner,SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mat Hoffman 2 (DVD-ROM)

It sure seems like it's been a long time coming, but now that Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2 has finally touched down, was it worth the wait? You bet. Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2 is to the original game what Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 was to its predecessor-a whole heck of a lot more gameplay shows up the second time around. Once again, you'll bust out flips, manuals, stalls, grinds, and dozens of other BMX tricks on a road trip around eight U.S. cities. Each level is packed with tons of secret areas, icons, and other goodies; there's also a park editor and eight multiplayer games to extend your ride even further. The character animation is extremely fluid, and there are some nice Las Vegas lighting effects-this is a very pretty game overall. The crisp sound effects are sparse (a few voices here and there, plus the ubiquitous spinning spokes), but the eclectic soundtrack more than makes up for it-Iggy Pop, L.L. Cool J, NERD, and Suicidal Tendencies all in the same place! Whip-smart controls make execution of the dozens of tricks easy, especially if you're a series vet; you can also modify grind and stall tricks now. With any of Activision's O2 games, you kind of know what you're going to get, and that's comfortable. Same here-Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2 offers no major surprises but plenty of refinements to a proven formula. It's a major improvement over the first game.