Tony Hawk's Pro Skater: Every Game Ranked Worst To Best

16. Motion

If released on any other console, Tony Hawk's Motion would’ve caused a massive commotion in the video game industry. It perpetuated an injustice to at least one small, unlucky demographic though: Nintendo DS owners.

The unsuspecting consumers endured a counter-intuitive slog of a control scheme that relied on players tilting the console around like watching a person with vertigo through a kaleidoscope.

In the age of peripherals (mid-2000s), every franchise was indoctrinating these frivolous mechanics into their franchises due to Activision’s lucrative Guitar Hero series. As is often the case, though, people remember originality, not replication.

... As Activision themselves proved.

Despite the company capitalising on the fad that they invented, they were still susceptible to creating bad hardware when utilising this method and Tony Hawk’s Motion was the first casualty in this long line of lacklustre innovation.

Featuring an additional Motion pack which generated about as much kinetic energy as a corpse, Motion is a game that doesn’t control too bad. It controls unbelievably bad.

A prototypical video game from the first generation would probably contain just as much playability and it wouldn't be a surprise if the graphics looked next gen in comparison too. Don't waste your time or money on this utterly creatively bankrupt piece of lamentable media.