The game story mode handles like a scavenger hunt with Team Hawk facing against Team Margera for an all international demolition tour. Your goals are strictly to smash things in different venues. You get four skaters in this mode. You start out with your own custom character and select another skater as your partner. For the remaining two skaters, you'll find them hidden in various places on each stage. The story mode booms with cutting edge moves like the Sticker Slap, Natas Spin, Focus Mode and the Freak Out maneuver. Sticker Slap is basically a trick where you execute a mid-air wall plant that sends you off with greater speed, allowing you to create killer combos. Natas Spin allows you to spin on pointed objects ranging from trash cans to fire hydrants. The Focus Mode gives you the ability to stick your landing with ease and ability to balance your manuals and rails for longer interval. The Freak Out maneuver is unleashed only after your freak out meter fills up by mashing the grind button - that's after when you have too many falls and you break your board out of frustration. Don't worry; you will get a new board and additional thousand points for blowing up your short fuse. Finally, we have a game that rewards players for being temperamental.

THUG 2 Remix re-introduces the classic mode, which contains the two-minute run timer and goal structure of the past Pro Skater titles. There's nothing really interesting about it except that it's kind of silly trying to unlock the levels you have already played in story mode. The only good part about it is that you can reminisce some of the memorable levels of the past that have appeared in the original game. The other modes available are Elimiskate, Scavenger Hunt and Wireless play. Elimiskate is a new mode just introduced this year. In this mode, you race at specific intervals against other opponents. Just think of it as a royal rumble where every man fights for himself and the last one standing wins the match. The Scavenger Hunt involves setting coins in various spots in the level. Once the coins are in place, participants must find where the coins are hidden. The player with the most coins collected wins the game. Both Elimiskate and Scavenger Hunt bring interesting twist to the table but the real lowdown of THUG 2 Remix is in the wireless play.

The wireless play contains a truck load of events, which includes combo mambo, king of the hill, capture the flag, trick attack, firefight, score challenge and graffiti among others. In this mode, you can have up to four local players participating in any of the mentioned events. I am surprised to see that the wireless feature actually functions incredibly well! It was a wise decision to include the wireless play, which gave this game extension to its replay value. I am disappointed, however, that the real online aspect is not present. Graphically, THUG 2 Remix is not as sharp as its console counterpart. The visuals are missing items in the background and they sort of have a blown up appearance to them; but this is not to say the game looks bad. It just looks unusual. Strange as it may seem, the surroundings in THUG 2 Remix is lively and full of colors. The characters look good for the most part and the animations are smooth.

On the audio side of things, THUG 2 Remix delivers some impressive music. Players can listen to over 50 soundtracks, with songs from Less Than Jake, Metallica, Violent Femmes, The DOC and old blue eyes Frank Sinatra. Yes, Frank Sinatra! The game's tunes are just as crazy as the gameplay itself. As far as the sounds are concerned, THUG 2 Remix uses the same auditory effects as before. However, parts of the voice-over work related to dialogues have been cut back. Overall, THUG 2 Remix still retains the edgy material of the previous Tony Hawk games. The gameplay is fast, slick, and adrenaline-pumping. It's fun to mess around with the game's ability to design decks, stickers, and face-mapping. The trick moves are still awesome as ever. With the latest addition of Sticker Slap and Freak Out maneuver, you are in for some serious combo points. Despite the fact that the graphics are a step back from the console version, THUG 2 Remix still looks good. The audio still pumps in a lot of excitement to the gameplay and the story mode still makes one helluva pound cake. So if you like high-flying stunts, combined with lots of crash scenes and loud music on the go, then THUG 2 Remix is definitely for you.