Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2
| Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 | |
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North American PlayStation 2 cover art
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| Developer(s) | Z-Axis, Full Fat |
| Publisher(s) | Acclaim Max Sports, Crave Entertainment (PS2 Greatest Hits) |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Xbox |
| Release |
PlayStation 2 GameCube Game Boy Advance Xbox |
| Genre(s) | Sports |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer (2 players) |
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| Publication | Score | |||
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| AllGame | N/A | N/A |    |
N/A |
| Edge | N/A | N/A | 6/10 | N/A |
| EGM | N/A | 8.5/10 | 8.33/10 | N/A |
| Game Informer | 8.25/10 | 8.75/10 | 9/10 | 9/10 |
| GamePro | N/A | |
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N/A |
| Game Revolution | N/A | N/A | N/A | B |
| GameSpot | 9.2/10 | 6.9/10 | 7/10 | 7.4/10 |
| GameSpy | 83% | 84% | 75% | 79% |
| GameZone | 6.9/10 | 8.7/10 | 7.5/10 | N/A |
| IGN | 8.4/10 | 8/10 | 8/10 | 6.9/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 3.3/5 | |
N/A | N/A |
| OPM (US) | N/A | N/A | |
N/A |
| OXM (US) | N/A | N/A | N/A | 8.7/10 |
| Maxim | N/A | N/A | |
N/A |
| Aggregate score | ||||
| Metacritic | 85/100 | 78/100 | 81/100 | 76/100 |
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 is the 2001 successor to Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX and was developed by Z-Axis and Full Fat and published by Acclaim Entertainment under their Acclaim Max Sports label. It was first released for the PlayStation 2 in August 2001, and in the following months it was ported to the GameCube, Game Boy Advance, and Xbox video game systems. Both the GameCube and Xbox ports featured two extra levels that were not present in the PS2 version.
In the game, players can take on the role of one of 13 top BMX riders, or a number of other characters. Along with the pro riders, there were 3 hidden characters. One of which was teenager, Mike Dias, who won the grand prize in the Slim Jim Sweepstakes getting his likeness put into the game, the Slim Jim man from the commercials, and then Amish Boy, who rode around on a wooden bike and had Amish clothing and a corn cob pipe. Some of the stages included in this game are Woodward Camp, Venice, Greenville, North Carolina, and the Manhattan train yards.
In 2006, Crave Entertainment re-released this game on PlayStation 2 with the Greatest Hits label, under their copyrights and trademarks instead of Acclaim Entertainment since they closed their doors in 2004.
The game has several different modes of play.
The first, and main mode is Proquest, a story mode. The player selects a character to portray, and then has several 3 minute runs to complete set goals (ranking from Beginner to Insane), such as grinding 50 meters down a grind bar or scoring 50,000 points in a single run. By completing these quests, the player earns respect points. After collecting enough respect points, they then unlock new areas and bikes. In each new area the set of goals is different. After earning enough points, the player will be invited to a competition, where they have to show their skills at biking by not only scoring high, but also by performing a variety of tricks, modifiers, spins, and grinds. Players can also earn 1000 respect points by finding all the gaps in a particular park. Gaps, as the name implies, are gaps between two items, such as between two jumps, or from one side of a river to another. There are usually about 10-20 gaps in each park.
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