50 things you might not know about... Tony Hawk's Underground 2

[@AmyraCarter]

0:40 Yes, sort of; as far as I recall, there's only collision data for some of the map, and not all of the map is there. 6:44 Smashing these whilst in a combo will grant bonus points. I think it's 100 a piece, but it also increases the multiplier, no cap. 8:16 Grind the lamp (a bit tricky to pull off) after the teapot, you get a gap. 10:20 It's the original event that gets duped as the bull runs about. The dupes eventually vanish (because of obvious reasons). 11:24 "Damn you, Tommy Tutone!" ~Stewie, Family Guy 14:00 It does this in THPS3 as well, only, you get a gap after three or five times around (no cap). 14:44 THUG 1, THUG 2, and THAW. AndyTHPS did all of those. 15:52 Also can be done in THPS3, so it was never addressed. I've only ever gotten it once. It is pretty neat though. 16:36 "TEN HARDCORE YEARS KICKIN' YOUR ARSE" (Neversoft's tenth anniversary references were all over the game) 16:56 "That's one pissy pussy..." ~Me lolz 18:22 Fun Fact: it's possible to fall right through when skating this, though it's very *_pixel perfect._* I've found my way down here after performing a lip trick more than once, and it again is a leftover from THPS3. 19:56 Yup, another leftover from THPS3, only, they removed the trigger for playing the voice clips (since there is no associated goal anymore). The gap associated with the dropping of the car was turned into a text popup. 28:16 lmfao Somewhere, there's a dining establishment by that name. There *_has_* to be. xD 29:42 Fun Fact: Nick is an unlockable character in Guitar Hero: World Tour (via Cheats); looks exactly the same (just has more polygons). 30:32 Looks like NS forgot to add in a flag that disables event triggers when switching maps. Pretty sure that this doesn't occur in THPS3, as one cannot get off their board. 31:00 Also in THPS3 since the related gap in question was not removed. It's also the easiest way to get the Secret Tape in Classic Mode. Hint, hint. lolz 33:06 "Skills! 'Skittles' means skills! What, are you from Idaho!?" ~Todd, THUG 1 34:04 It can technically be triggered more than once. It does require a very fast pair of grinds. It also has a chance of crashing the game, which on PC, triggers WerFault, but on console, triggers a screen freeze or a screen of death of various sorts. 36:38 If one looks at the sign for which of the binary assignments applies, it adds a lot of context. Nothing I can safely elaborate on, not on this platform anyway. 38:40 Nope, those censor bars are a secondary layer; they can be 'removed' (turned transparent). Unfortunately, there's no detailed nips and/or areolas; just pink stars (which can be accessed for the CAS in the *_Anteara_* mod). 44:30 One of my favorite gags, lolz 44:56 The voice clip is from THPS3. One can knock off the person whose bladder is nullspace. ... Lots of timestamped notes. I get ignored as a result, but honestly, at least it's somewhat organized!? Give a girl some damned credit, for Mercy's sake. Hot damn, people. 🤦🏼‍♀

[@MattJ155]

Your credit is... you get to be the pinned comment. :D Tonnes of additional really interesting info, thanks! I really enjoyed reading it.

[@AmyraCarter]

@@MattJ155 Hiihiihii... (curtsies) Dé rìen! One more note; OOB checks are usually based on player coordinates, but most of the checks are for X/Y and not for Z (vertical) coords, hence why getting OOB with moon gravity or with going over the rail and near the water (like with Downhill Jam) doesn't trigger a reset_pos event.

[@this_is_diamond_rot]

I read all of it!!! Super interesting stuff here. Thanks for this!

[@AmyraCarter]

@@this_is_diamond_rot Dé rìen!

[@RandyOrlok]

Bla bla bla

[@sickology183]

During the peak PS2 era, I used to play THUG 2 online daily and was apart of a clan called GHS aka. Glitch Hunters. We pretty much would spend hours every day pushing each level to its limits. Most out of bounds area can be access by simply standing in a corner of a building, window or even the fish tank on Berlin and doing a flip trick till you clip through the wall. There’s sooo many other glitches as well especially on the Australia level. Played all the way till the servers were shut off 😢

[@deathmachinestar]

Did you find the car lip trick glitch

[@ShOscar]

Corner glitch!!

[@stayfly5870]

I wondered if I can still play online u think

[@V1VISECT6]

​@@stayfly5870Check out the ThugPro mod for THUG2 on PC.

[@SlingerMarshall]

If you set a restart point on the airboat in New Orleans then go to it after the boat sinks, you can walk around the swamp area freely.

[@MattJ155]

Wow, I never knew that. I'll give it a try!

[@ShittyGamePrototypes]

This game was just too damn soulful for it's own good.

[@kriskater]

seriously… honestly my personal fav from the series or at least top 3. Others are thps 2 and either underground 1 or project 8

[@generalgk]

They don’t make games like that anymore. So much personality

[@feder28]

Honestly it's impressive how every single playable skater has their own unique graffiti tag design. Almost as if having those many playable characters at your disposal wasn't enough.

[@RandyOrlok]

Back when developers cared

[@AlryFireBlade]

Today theywouldhave the same, or still unique ones but cost 10 eoro per player

[@RainyTurtloid.]

Honestly it’s impressive? Why do people talk like drama queens now

[@justsayin._.]

​​@@RainyTurtloid.Hes not saying it like "wow! How did they make all those tags look like that!?!". He's saying it as "wow! Devs used to put heart in their games". It's not dramatic when u see how far games have fallen in quality

[@velvetblueco2422]

This was the game that got me into skateboarding. Been skating, traveling and filming ever since

[@civilservant9528]

This game singlehandedly saved my life

[@DeadYorick]

Downhill Jam was a remnant of the original design of THPS1. Which was planned to be a skateboard racing game similar to the arcade game Top Skater. Which was one of the biggest inspirations for the project. They discovered a Top Skater arcade cabinet at their local bowling alley while developing the game Apocalypse for the PS1. They discovered during playtesting that testers would ignore the race component altogether and just do tricks instead. Which caused them to pivot the level design into skateparks instead.

[@RandyOrlok]

I wish there were racing levels in the game

[@MattJ155]

Yeah, I remember reading about that too - I think that's definitely something I'd mention if I were to do a THPS1 version of this video. It's interesting to see that there were more linear levels in the beta as well, which were cut.

[@TrocaTheNero]

In terms of the politicians, they are all US Presidents. The first one (at 7:22) is the White House Historical Association portrait of Harry S. Truman. The second one (7:29) is most certainly George Washington (the WHHA and NPG portraits are essentially the same for him). The third one (7:41) is the National Portrait Gallery portrait of Thomas Jefferson. And the final one (7:46) looks like the NPG portrait of James Monroe. I used this as a source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portraits_of_presidents_of_the_United_States

[@_N1GHTMAR3_]

Another game I've played more times than I can count, and I STILL didn't know about half of these, even after having watched the Oddheader videos beforehand. Mindblowing stuff, and it's inspiring me to make similar videos about games I've played inside and out. Great video as always!

[@MattJ155]

Thanks so much for this comment! I think you've captured exactly why I love to make content for my channel - to be able to surprise even the most diehard fans of any given series. I hope you go onto to make those videos you mentioned!

[@possiblycrazy442]

The Tony Hawk games were always fun to explore. I enjoyed this video.

[@MattJ155]

Thanks Sketchy!

[@justintelmo]

To add onto the lore of the andyTHPS ledge, he first did the manual in a part of a video made for the online community at the time. I can't quite find the original video anymore, but andy himself can probably tell you the entire story.

[@tehogvirgin3664]

an interesting tidbit about the ramp kid falling is that the "i dont wanna die" is a unused placeholder quote from the hanging car in THPS3 LA, as if you play in the beta PS2 build thats what the guy says, along with 1-2 other placeholder quotes

[@MattJ155]

Wow, thanks!

[@tehogvirgin3664]

@@MattJ155 i might have gotten something wrong, its not unused, but it was a placeholder quote from the driver of the hanging car in the beta PS2 THPS3 build.

[@namemcnamerton4249]

The voodoo doctor could also be a reference to WWF's papa shango character who would later become khama mustafa and later the godfather. Don't know who Jesse James is? He was the host of discovery's monster garage series.

[@waste4245]

Always brilliant to see a game full of passion and creativity being explored like this, Matt never misses!

[@MattJ155]

Thanks!

[@SavvygeMediaGroup]

Back when devs just wanted to make fun and awesome games for US not for money :/

[@toxics.]

I used to do the fish tank glitch on Berlin when I was younger. But you dont need to create a goal to do it, you just need to set your custom respawn in the broken tank, reset the level, then spawn at your custom point. You could also get inside the lip-able UFO on The Triangle, but I cant for the life of me remember how.. Awesome vid! Alot of neat things here!

[@catethps]

couldn't you just do a corner glitch to get in there? or the set restart while bailing glitch? i remember using those methods on every wall when i was a kid

[@toxics.]

@@catethps I've tried the set restart bailing glitch, and hadn't had any luck, and dont think a corner glitch would work on it. I remember there being graffiti tags all over the UFOs glass bubble, and when id get in finally, id be annoyed that the graffiti tags were obstructing the view.. But now when I go in and try, I have no idea how graffiti tags had anything to do with it.. Really wish I could tap into my childhood memories more for this one. Was really hoping this video had a way to do it, as I cant find a video of someone doing it.

[@MattJ155]

@@toxics. Wow, I'd love to know if you can finally manage to replicate it!

[@infinitetgaming]

Didn't expect to see this on my birthday, but this makes my day already better.

[@EthanChase]

Happy birthday man :)🎉🎉

[@RickettsJr]

Happy birthday!

[@VaNdaILoKo]

Happy bday G

[@SockyNoob]

Happy birthday!

[@e.e.mccutcheon979]

There was a glitch with Shrek's animations (at least in the gamecube version) where when you held down A to crouch / accelerate, his jaw would poke through the back of his head. Strangely though, turning the camera to get a good look at this will push his face back together

[@jesse01]

I loved thps thru american wasteland. But my 2 favorite was thug 1 & 2. Didn't buy another thps game until the newest one. Loved the video. Learned alot of stuff and ive put countless hours into them

[@Jakuzziful]

Your videos are so nice. No BS, interesting Facts, everything in Detail shown / explained, well made, cut and paced! Very comfy to watch.

[@MattJ155]

Thanks so much!

[@pachoycamico]

22:00 if you’re in the middle of a combo and you try to graffiti, your tag will also be much larger than normal. Also, specific to the GameCube version (maybe only the PAL version too, but I’m not sure), when doing story mode, you can completely bypass the Berlin level. If you just go talk to Phil immediately after the level loads, he’ll tell you that you can move on to the next level without having to actually do any of the goals.

[@Ibetalkinvidyagames]

The part about tags really makes me think they were gonna let AI tag on RNG like in Bully.

[@PinkP0nyPr0ducti0n5]

I know I'm almost a year too late with it, but I want to say one thing though: 32:40 In THPS1, Training is called "Warehouse, Woodland Hills". Funnily enough, Woodland Hills is located in LA, California. Hearing that the actual location of the warehouse is in Idaho is quite amusing. The Devs definitely didn't think this through, as Los Angeles is already a level they brought back and of course they couldn't place 2 levels on the same spot.

[@WojackToter]

idk how I only now found this video but this is such a great video showcasing a lot of glitches and secrets this game has to offer, I hope this inspires other people to try out the ones you've showcased cause they're really fun to do

[@ShOscar]

Out of all the facts mentioned here, one of the few I did not know about was Bigfoot's original location. I did not know about that before! and I've played this game A LOT over the years. Also, Jeff. Praise Jeff. I didn't know about this one either. As for the Barcelona stretcher, it's also visible on the PSP version. It's also still there on the other versions (if you glitch through the wall, you can see it) but it seems like there's some kind bug on the GC, Xbox and PC versions that makes dynamic objects not visible through transparent textures. On the PC port, Nick Kang does not have a unique graffiti tag. The one he has is the default CAS one.

[@lionocyborg6030]

I’ve seen it in my PSP copy. I thought it was a sawhorse.

[@costinache873]

super fun video, thug 2 was my first tony hawk game and it was soo good that I started to play the whole series. One thing about the video I would like to mention, 43:43 , if you look closer at the “Mystery Machine” van on the other side there is a dog outside the window with his tongue out, so much detail! when I played this in my childhood I’ve replaced the minicooper car model from Barcelona with this one so I can have a better look! Keep it up, very informative and well delivered videos! 🎉🎉

[@JustTooManyPuppies]

44:43 i think that sound is from the pro skater 3 beta! there was place holder audio for the stop the car chase goal in los angeles, and if i remember that would be it.

[@flumpdaddy2322]

Love how the sky is green at 19:48

[@DarylWiseJr]

I rarely comment on videos but I watched every second of this video and loved it! Great video!!!!

[@_UglyBarnacle]

That version of the kanye song gave this video so much more nostalgia. I was flashing back alot. Good times. Thanks for making this and taking the time. 🤝🙂

[@oltn7142]

turning the characters around after the spray was a nice touch.

[@MyGamester]

Underground 2 was my sht growing up. Loved this game.

[@feliretagd]

9:30 this is an actual real location, is a market called “La boquearía”, and I know this bc I live near there in Barcelona (btw nice video, lot of nostalgia)

[@MattJ155]

Thanks for letting me know!

[@juiceboxzach]

There was something about the style of this game that drew me in when I was so little, still does to this day. The facade buildings that looked like was an actual store front, or actual hotel. Or party going on. It made it feel so alive yet still so desolate. Weirdly enough it gives me a feeling of being more appreciative of being able to actually interact with things irl. The game also brings me back to watching viva la bam, or jackass as well.

[@filmskoolfulci9183]

Loving this format of video from you, definitely think this is the way to go.

[@MattJ155]

Thanks!

[@WhatInTheActual]

I would love for them to do a remaster of this game next!!

[@vista1456786]

I just found out this year that there was an upgraded version of THPS2 for the original Xbox.

[@sam-tw9yy]

THPS2X, yes

[@JustTooManyPuppies]

yeah it was a launch title if i remember correctly

[@lionocyborg6030]

I got the Xbox version in 2004 or 2005. Loved it.

[@brandonhall1395]

Dude actually had stuff I never seen nostalgia boost 100%

[@SullenSigh]

if your curious as to why secret stages are called heaven and hell above and below it dates back to theater

[@Heazytoohot]

I am begging you for more mortal kombat Kontent. That was the best video about deception I've ever seen.

[@MattJ155]

Thanks Lucas! I'll see if I can think of anything else that's worth making content about. :)

[@jojoversus1100]

Never seen this channel, havent even pushed play yet, but I already subbed. I already know this is my kind of channel

[@MattJ155]

Thanks for subbing!

[@redteller]

Thanks for showing this! I never knew about most of the stuff.

[@shibaos]

it's weird that I know this but at 41:07 the cobblestone floor texture is used in counter strike 1.6 for the de_cbble map's walls, and it can also be seen in hitman 2 in one of the early levels.

[@YOEL_44]

33:20 I'm spanish, that could barelly pass as spanish but it's extremelly broken, we don't even say aqua, but agua. The correct spelling would be, "Por favor, no Kurt en el agua".

[@zuupower3503]

One of the houses , I think the brown-ish one from my hazy memory, in the create a park mode can be clipped through and has interior textures

[@TheOneTrueAJ]

Thanks for this and taking me back. I spent Days on this game! Glad to have Discovered most this shit.

[@suikasuika4157]

Didn't knew for the first one, it's amazing!

[@napalmkitty6686]

4:21 you can get here with the moon gravity cheat as well as numerous areas (my favourite is Manhattan, past the two cops guarding an out of bounds area.

[@celdamagecody2153]

The swamp monster could actually be a reference to the new Orleans very own werewolf legend known as a roogaru. Theyre men with the heads of wolfs and are primarily seen wondering the swamps.

[@alexyancy6018]

Amaazing 💜 still nice to see games like these come to life again

[@grokopf142]

my fav TH game, great memories :)

[@CJIVI]

Great video , you can tell It took a lot of time and effort well done !!!!

[@safebox36]

Looking at those politician clown paintings, I recognise at least two of them. One is FDR, but surprisingly the other is Margaret Thatcher; a former British Prime Minister.

[@Salival46.2]

Absolutely love your videos bro, earned a sub. would LOVE a THAW video

[@MattJ155]

Thank you!

[@keenenwilliams9687]

Man this was a dope video. I new most but the way I remember getting to New Jersey was using the set up/reset in a corner on remix(the psp port). This was my first TH game and I still love it, I think THAW is the best in the series and I have a huge love for THPG. I have every main game even 2x, thug2 remix, and the special version of THAW. Personally thps3 is the best out of the trilogy but starting with thps4 is when the series starting getting truly amazing

[@MattJ155]

I remember seeing that method on KZbin before this current one was discovered. I'm just thankful that this new method is much easier and quicker to do. :)

[@ApocalypseMoose]

11:38 There's even a little 4th wall joke after beating Boston in story mode where some drunk douchebag keeps trying to hit on some chick, and before it cuts to them, you hear some narrator say "Jeers was filmed in front of a live audience."

[@SockyNoob]

I love your "100 X things you didn't know about this" series a lot! Just like that race modification video.

[@MattJ155]

Thanks!

[@PanekPL]

11:32 3ATM3 is a Beastie Boys reference

[@traviscombs6947]

Yeah I noticed that. It's "eat me" backward and is on their Licensed to Ill album cover

[@PanekPL]

@@traviscombs6947 cheers buddy!

[@sparechaingee]

In LA if you jump inside the back of the DC truck on the broken bridge it’ll take you out of bounds and you can hop out of it and skate around

[@SullySadface]

"Some robot punk phased through the wall on a skate board and nabbed a handle of Blue on the way!" CoD soldier with the Doom tag is lol

[@GTAPanos]

Great vid bro! I think there's also one more in Boston. If I remember correctly, if you go to the front of the Boston Tea Party boat and stand on the grate to the cellar you'll see a bunch of red eyes blinking. It's been a long time since I've played though so I could be wrong

[@xmane1998]

I seen it the otherday, it looks like the gingerbread man from shrek

[@srbrant5391]

The Star Wars Kid is now an attorney who specializes exclusively in cyberbullying and online harassment cases.

[@MattCantuMusic]

Flippy uploaded a video recently about the lost cheat codes of THUG 2. Similar to the lost Gran Turismo 4 cheats that have been discovered recently. I think you should do a follow up video on this!

[@staygold94]

Thanks for this video it was a lot of fun 🤘🏽

[@MattJ155]

No problem!

[@memebowdashpoposhy1699]

Fun Fact that nobody seems to know since I cant find anything on the internet about it: Theres a Sound test bug in the game that nobody has seem to have found, despite how easy it is to accidently come across.

[@CoachBo89]

1st painting is Harry S Truman 2nd is George Washington 3rd with the rainbow hair is thomas jefferson 4th with the hat is James Buchanan

[@GTvsForza]

33:03 Wasn't expecting that! Not many games have areas based in Idaho.

[@suikasuika4157]

You didn't talked about it but did you know that you can pass trough almost any wall? You just need to put yourself into the nearest corned of that wall and get out of your skate then face the corner and do impossible then get out of your skate very fast, do that again several time and you'll pass to the wall like magic. I used to play hide and seek with my friend at the time using this method

[@Spitfire77077]

these games are pretty cool, props!

[@JarrettGilmer]

You can also get in the white building on thug2 in boston if you keep jumping in the corner

[@deciduous_reaper]

Oh man I remembered being that robot skater but I replaced the head with a skull and added in a helmet and made em like the Spooky Space Kook from Scooby Doo

[@mattalan6618]

IIRC the Kook was also on fire

[@Alexp37]

Love these videos of yours!

[@ChaosPootato]

43:05 This house looks suspiciously like the haunted house of Suburbia in THPS3

[@Mace2.0]

THUG2 is my first Tony Hawk game. Gameplay peaked with this IMO.

[@akimbooR6]

If have thug pro and you want to see New Jersey in the training level, you can use the free camera tool that comes with thug pro to teleport yourself there.

[@nathan4419]

my favourite game, talked about by my favourite youtuber. Happy days.

[@MattJ155]

yay it's nathan

[@WorldsWorstBoy]

This video was asmr for me

[@dngrouscrgo]

I’m interested to know why the developers decided to actually texture all of those aisles inside the convenience store when it was so far out of bounds

[@JustTooManyPuppies]

10:30 pretty sure its because you were either intended to be able to see more of it at one point, or just to make it look more legit if you were to be able to see more of it from another angle. maybe they noticed the overkill and decided to use it as the goal picture. one things for sure you can def tell it wasnt meant to be explored because of the low quality textures

[@dngrouscrgo]

@@JustTooManyPuppies I’m talking about the one on LA not Barcelona

[@JustTooManyPuppies]

@@dngrouscrgo ohhh... much of the same reason. its just so you can look in and see something in there.

[@itsbreadbin]

Incredible video. I had absolutely no idea about that new Jersey glitch; doesn't the map just use assets from the first Underground?

[@seancola]

Why can’t they make a game like this again

[@alastormccarthy7226]

I remember in Boston after I collapsed the building I threw a apple at a car and the car ran into the building and made it collapse way more I swear its not a dream my brother ever remembers it

[@dakotawinston7677]

Awesome video!

[@MrWojoRising5446]

38:20 the movie Saw actually came out about a month after this game

[@FurryStockings]

Wait, did the Ramp Kid's graffiti say "Ramp-stein"? lol

[@insertgenericusernamehere2402]

1 slight error in this, when you mentioned that the tricycle looked like jigsaw, you meant to say Billy the puppet... jigsaw is the name of the serial killer that created the puppet :) great video though!!

[@deathmachinestar]

Billy is commonly known as Jigsaw

[@insertgenericusernamehere2402]

@@deathmachinestar by those who don't know.... Or watch the movies.

[@deathmachinestar]

@@insertgenericusernamehere2402 and by an internet search

[@Ryo]

I miss these days.. lying in bed on a Friday night with my psp and thug 2 while enjoying whatever is on tv

[@childrenofthemothofficial5289]

This game was my childhood!

[@Giantsquid99]

was my favorite game growing up

[@randyculler2346]

I’m still early in the video, so I’m not sure if it was caught but on the same dumpster in the Jenny one, there is also a not to the Beastie Boys with the 3MTA3 which is what they did to get “eat me” onto their album artwork for Licensed to Ill

[@taroturtle]

8:16 that's the freakout sound isn't it

[@MattJ155]

Oh yeah you might be right!

[@revolverocelot3741]

Thank you so much Matt

[@Azletrack]

Maybe using shreks graffiti to put SS might not have been the best decision 😂 I seem to remember something about that which isn’t too good

[@sureokk]

Games were so much more ambitious back then

[@LuckyOfJJ]

american wasteland next? 👀

[@baalrog887]

I swear to god I do not remember half of these levels/secret skaters... I mean, I was a kid when I last played it... but still, you'd think I'd remember

[@Vitorio582]

Either I'm just bad at doing these glitches or most of them were patched in the PC version

[@Resimaster]

Wow, what a detailed video.

[@slipknotrb1645]

i always thought that swamp monster was shrek as a kid

[@benirw1n]

I would so love a 50 facts about THAW

[@jredacted]

Best fucking thing I seen in my rec in months thank u

[@MattJ155]

Thanks!

[@noone-pg4lr]

6:03 what song is this