New Orleans

New Orleans loading screen

New Orleans is the sixth level in the Tony Hawk's Underground 2 story mode. After New Orleans, majority of Team Tony gets arrested, leaving only the player and Tony Hawk alone.

Origin

As the name suggests, the level is based off of the city-parish of New Orleans, Louisiana. Given the Mardi Gras setting, the level most likely takes place in and/or around Bourbon Street, a historic street in the Louisiana French Quarter, around early January-late February. In keeping with the Mardi Gras theme of the level, various NPCs are dressed in typical Mardi Gras costumes. The level also seems to draw inspiration from Louisiana Voodoo culture, as evidenced by the presence of the Voodoo Doctor in story mode and crystal balls and voodoo dolls as collectibles in Classic Mode.

The most notable landmark of the level is the cemetery, which contains several crypts that have skulls on them; knocking all of the skulls off of the crypts will "raise the dead", which shows the Voodoo Doctor summoning magical skulls that possess many of the NPCs, turning them into zombies. This cemetery is most likely based off of the Saint Louis Cemetery, No. 1.

Trivia

• The player can raise the dead as many times as they want.
• If beads are thrown at the girls, they'll flash their breasts at the player; in-game, however, censor bars are placed over their breasts.
• Screams from "The Underworld" can be heard around the middle of the level, despite the fact that the manhole is closed.
• According to the loading screen, the yellow van from Australia can be seen driving down the main street, suggesting that driving cars would have been present in the beta version. This was removed from the final release for unknown reasons.
• The Pole at the top of the big crypt at the cemetery was significantly larger in the beta version.
• The "Fan club" building had a much different paint scheme in the original version.
• The road is grey rather than black in the original version.
• On the dumpster in one of the alleyways, the number 8675309 can be seen, a reference to the song "867-5309/Jenny" by Tommy Tutone. The number 420 can also be seen which is slang for marijuana.
• One of the gravestones in the cemetery reads "DISCO 1974-1980", a tongue-in-cheek reference to disco music and how it is considered a "dead" genre during the 80s.

Gallery

The middle of New Orleans