My first PS2 game!
I remember seeing a preview and (I think) an ad in Game Informer for 'Chris Edwards Aggressive Inline'. I thought if BMX could copy the Tony Hawk formula, why not inline skating? I asked for the game and a PS2 for my birthday and my parents delivered.
I knew a few of the skaters from casual TV viewing of inline competitions (I vaguely remember... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Sports_Channel maybe?)

My friends and I played the heck out of this. The soundtrack was amazing, coloring my music preferences for my high school years. It's what really hooks you, I think. We'd put in the "unlock all keys" cheat and just skate around, doing missions only really when we pleased. We realized you could load a map, then swap the disk to a second PS2, and keep playing the large map as long as you didn't encounter any loading. We had one copy for the longest time, but eventually bought two or more. I even bought it used for Gamecube much later.

Maybe not the best game ever, but one I have a soft spot for, certainly!

Reviewed on Nov 26, 2023


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