6 Sports With No Good Video Game In Years

Alongside skateboarding, snowboarding is the ‘extreme’ sport that has been most frequently translated into games. By contrast, there has hardly ever been a major title focusing on the likes of rollerblading, though Activision and Neversoft did once try to capitalise on Tony Hawks’ Pro Skater in the early 2000s by delving into niches like wakeboarding.

SSX was one of the better Playstation 2 launch titles back in 2000 and its sequels, SSX Tricky and SSX3, built on its success further with amazing blends of racing and trick events. They were far from realistic (though the same could also be said of Tony Hawks’) but major multiplayer heavyweights nonetheless.

There was one further release on the PS2, SSX: On Tour, which didn’t fare as well critically but was still perfectly serviceable, adding skiing to complement the snowboarding action.

The franchise died for seemingly no reason after one solitary release on the PS3 in 2012. By that point, any rival series (such as Cool Boarders) were long since departed and it wouldn’t be until 2016 that another company stepped up to the mantle.

Mark McMorris Infinite Air, Snow and Steep, the latter backed by Ubisoft’s millions, all crashed and burned, however, meaning that we’ve now gone an entire console generation without a great game for the greatest of winter sports.