Downhill Jam for PS2

By Robert Purchese Published 14 March, 2007

Perfectly preserved.

Activision has confirmed that Downhill Jam will be spread on PS2 this spring.

Which means Tony Hawk and chums will once again be putting their lives in your hands, as you attempt to guide them down steep slopes at ridiculous pant-filling speeds.

SuperVillain Studios will be developing the title, cramming in all the attractions from the previous Wii and DS versions, as well as four new single-player events, three new playable characters, and three new multiplayer modes.

Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam launched last year on both Nintendo platforms to an average critical reception. Plummet your way to our Wii and DS reviews to find out why.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Steroyd #1 5 years ago

    I'm intrigued is the Wii keeping the PS2 market alive or is the PS2 helping the Wii's third party my-title-won't-sell-on-Nintendo-console-unless-it-has-a-Nint endo-tag-on-it.

  • spongebob #2 5 years ago

    Looks like Activision is not happy with the sales figures on the Wii one. Not a surprise considering how badly the game did in reviews.

  • jonsaan #3 5 years ago

    well, you can't polish a turd. It was crap on the wii, but actually may be slightly better with a conventional control method.

  • kissthestick #4 5 years ago

    I'm intrigued is the Wii keeping the PS2 market alive or is the PS2 helping the Wii's third party my-title-won't-sell-on-Nintendo-console-unless-it-has-a-Nint
    endo-tag-on-it.

    i think the PS2 and Wii are in cahoots

  • Zane #5 5 years ago

    This is what bugs me about the Wii. It's third-party titles in the main seem to end up ported to ps2 or be ported from ps2 or be multi-platform between Wii and well.... ps2.

    It's next-gen in its innovation but isn't being treated totally by third party devs as a next-gen machine.

  • nevernow #6 5 years ago

    Well... Look at God Of War 2 on PS2 and any game on Wii. Wii is just not technically next-gen. It's last gen with innovative-enough controllers.

  • Steroyd #7 5 years ago

    Wii is new gen.

  • spongebob #8 5 years ago

    Steroyd should sell that as a slogan for Nintendo because it really does define Wii's mentality. It's not a next generation machine, more like new generation one.

    But yeah, Nintendo should really concentrate on getting third party support for Wii, exclusive, and no ports. Otherwise they're on their own again, what with the Marios and Warios. Not a bad thing of course, but it could be so much more..

  • Steroyd #9 5 years ago

    I coined that term from somewhere else.

    True people say quality over quantity but what's wrong with quantity of a certain quality?
    I've been saying from day one Ninty's biggest rivals are themselves any other 3rd party dev gets crushed under Nintendo titles on a Nintendo system that's why a fair few 3rd party devs develop for the PSP despite the DS's larger userbase.

  • urban #10 5 years ago

    and hopefully making a bit more...better.

  • nevernow #11 5 years ago

    Don't think I'm a Wii-hater. I'm not, I'm eager to see what gaming innovations it will enable, I own a DS Lite and love it, I even somehow like Nintendo. But really, Wii's next-gen or new-gen's claim is peripherals and marketing. You take a PS2, or Xbox or 5-years-old gaming PC, repack it with a motion-sensitive joypad and a light pointer and sell it. Suddenly it's not so next or new gen, more like a Guitar Hero or EyeToy bundle at the shop. Or little more.

  • Sabre #12 5 years ago

    Where's the Project 8 for Wii then? Unfair?

  • NewYork #13 5 years ago

    This is why the PS2 will carry on even past this year.

    The Wii, PS2 (and possibly PSP) make up a lower tier that devs can develop for with less risk. When you can target a game at the entire PS2 audience and the growing Wii audience, and not risk your neck by sticking to one platform, it's a good saf bet.

    Wii and PS2 will keep each other going in the face of all them newfangled consoles.

  • steoc4 #14 5 years ago

    It makes sense - the PS2 is capable of pretty much the same things as the Wii so porting isn't difficult and you reach a much bigger audience.

    Nintendo would be doing it themselves if they didn't have their Wii hardware to push - just look at their best game, it's out on Gamecube too, and their next top line game(Paper Mario) would have been out on Gamecube only Nintendo want to force people to upgrade.