Skaters lament. The new Tony Hawk game hasn’t so much arrived as it has bailed trying to do an heel flip and landed in a ditch. It’s ass. It’s toss. It’s an abomination that somehow makes the skateboard peripheral of Tony Hawk: Ride look like a lovely, inexpensive bit of horseplay for the whole family.
Okay, so maybe it’s not that bad. Still, skateboarding fans have certainly been left weeping into their beanies at THPS5, a disappointing, glitchy showing for a series that’s lost its way. Nevertheless, Pro skater was never the only game for practitioners of the hippest, hip-breaking-est extreme sport on Earth. Here’s the 4-11 on a few other skate games to try out instead. Check it out, as a youth might say…
between skate, skate 2 and skate 3, which one would you gamers say has the best single player experience?
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2
THPS Underground 1, Skate, THPS 3, THPS2, TH American Wasteland.