Aggressive Inline sadly does not get the love it deserves. I remember playing it on a demo disk and being immediately blown away by how much freedom you had. If it wasn't for the fact it was about roller blading I think this game would have been much more remembered alongside Tony Hawk and Dave Mirra games.
It was basically Tony Hawk 3 but with Tony Hawk Underground 2-style level mechanics, way ahead of its time, giving it a 3 in ingenuity is kind of funny looking at how much it was praised in these reviews for being ahead of the curb.
Also, sub-par soundtrack?? The game opens to Crawling in the Dark, has Passing Me By by The Pharcyde, Sublime?? A little short for a PS2 game sure but sub-par it is not, especially not for 2002. If anything I think them using smaller artists like Boy Hits Car and Student Rick really helped it define its identity. In the same way I associate Police Truck and New Girl with THPS1, every time I hear I'm a Cloud or Your Disease, I'm instantly transported to that carnival map.