Evolution Skateboarding Explained

Evolution Skateboarding is a sports video game released by Konami for the GameCube and PlayStation 2 in 2002. It includes several popular skateboarders such as Rick McCrank, Arto Saari, Kerry Getz, and Danny Way. There is also a create-a-skater feature and an unlockable character for every skater the player completes the game as. There are also sets of level specific songs such as a metal-remix of the Metal Gear Solid theme and a Castlevania theme after unlocking the Vampire Hunter. Levels are unlocked by beating a certain amount of objectives in a current level, such as collecting items like boots and other objects, performing tricks in certain areas of a level, and grinding a certain amount of meters. The Evolution Skateboarding engine was used in the bonus skateboarding mode included in the PlayStation 2 version of Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance in 2003.

Featured skaters

Default skaters

• Arto Saari
• Danny Way
• Colin McKay
• Stevie Williams
• Rick McCrank
• Kerry Getz
• Chris Senn

Unlockable skaters

• Gorilla
• Raiden
• Unknown
• Solid Snake
• Frogger
• Gurlukovich 1
• Vampire Hunter
• Gurlukovich 2
• Gray

Soundtrack

• H₂O - "Role Model"
• Stereo MC's - "Graffiti Part One"
• Primus - "Harold of the Rocks"
• Primus - "Mr Knowitall"
• Primus - "Pudding Time"
• cKy - "The Human Drive in Hi-Fi"
• The Turbo A.C.'s - "Hit and Run"
• Hotwire - "Not Today"
• Agent Orange - "Let It Burn"
• Default - "Slow Me Down"
• Unwritten Law - "Evolution"
• Ill Niño - "Unreal"
• The Dickies - "Elevator"
• Kurtis Mantronik - "Baby, You Blow My Mind"
• Peanut Butter Wolf - "Devotion"

Reception

The game received "generally unfavorable reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. It is mostly considered as a bland rip-off of the Tony Hawk's series of skating games. In Japan, however, Famitsu gave both console versions each a score of 31 out of 40.