Tony Hawk's Pro Skater: Every Game Ranked Worst To Best
13. Pro Skater 5
Incredulous. Insulting. Embarrassing and unfulfilling.
It’s unfortunate that a Tony Hawk game released in 2015 would conjure such a plethora of negative connotations, but they're all undeniably applicable. The sheer egregiousness of this shamelessly bad outing is something that needs to be experienced to be understood, though that is not advisory.
Tony Hawk retired from competition in 2003, and his namesake should’ve been withdrawn from competing with the rest of the video game industry shortly after.
Insincerely capitalising on the lucrative name of the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater brand, this fifth and final entry of that timeline diametrically opposes every single thing that made its predecessors classics, and Hawk himself a household name. It feels like they just tacked on the name without much of a plan in the way of developing something functional, never mind good.
Hiding behind the household name is a shambolic, destitute excuse for a game, with a soundtrack full of nobodies to top it off.
Still, its biggest offence is that the game disc doesn’t even feature the damn game, it features the data necessary to download it, rendering everything unplayable without a network connection.
Activision, you should be ashamed.