Note: this will affect the selections you have in the Head menu. Complexion: Choose between three different complexions. Appearance Is your skater one of the beautiful people or has he been beaten upside the head with the ugly stick? Here's your chance to decide. Weight: Calista Flockhart or Meatloaf? The weight scale ranges from 88 to 378 pounds. Regular skaters put their right foot forward when riding, goofy guys ride with the left foot forward.
The game's ultimate All-around examples are Bob Burnquist and Steve Caballero. An All-around skater is a good place to start when you're just learning the basics of the game. No surface is safe from an All-Around skater. An All-Around skater does both Vert and Street fairly well. The world's most famous skater (and the game's namesake) Sir Tony Hawk tops the list of vert skaters in the game. Vert skaters seek out the curved ramps and halfpipes of the world, always questing for more air. TheVert skater is a high-flying dynamo, tumbling effortlessly through the air with the greatest of ease. Kareem Campbell, Elissa Steamer and Rodney Mullen are among the street elite. THPS2 is heavy with street skaters, so you'll have plenty of role models. The street skater's natural environment is the concrete jungle. His specialties include grinding, manualling and using flip tricks to spice up the mix. A Street skater thrives on the edges and rails of the city. Select either Street, Vert or All-Around. Style: This choice will determine the kind of skating your rider is best at. Hometown: Where was your rider born? Age: Is your guy a young buck or older than Phyllis Diller? Set your age. Basic Info Set all the rudimentary info about your rider on the first Information screen.
Make yourself into a pro skater or create some freaky figment of your imagination (Bob Dole, anyone?).
You choose everything: stance, skating style, tricks, decks, even the shoes. Want to create a high-flying air animal? No sweat. Want a street skater with insane grindability? You got it. Create Skater allows you to tailor-make your own thrasher from the board up.