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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 30 Ratings

  • Summary: Players can experience skateboarding like never before in Tony Hawk: RIDE. For the first time, players have the ability to physically play the game using an innovative motion sensing skateboard controller, allowing for unprecedented freedom and movement. Tony Hawk: RIDE focuses on innovation and fun, bringing the #1 best-selling action-sports franchise to the forefront with cutting-edge technology for the hardcore fans and accessibility for the mass audience. Tony Hawk: RIDE features a wireless skateboard controller designed in conjunction with the game to offer a dynamic gaming experience built from the ground up. Using a combination of accelerometers and motion sensors, the intuitive controller allows players to physically control the action by performing various movements and gestures on the board that directly translate into amazing tricks in the game. Without complex button combinations or analog sticks, gamers of all skill levels can literally step on the board and play! [Activision] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 29
  2. Negative: 17 out of 29
  1. The board brings the franchise to life in remarkable ways. There is a decent variety of game modes and the ‘80s look is a nice touch.
  2. Unnecessary clunky controls make this more of a hell ride than a fun ride.
  3. 45
    One can only hope that Tony Hawk: Ride marks the end of these pointless bits of plastic, and not the end of the series itself, which surely calls for a more sophisticated makeover.
  4. Ugly, buggy and mostly boring to play. A decent peripheral wasted. [Feb 2010, p.90]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 4 out of 7
  1. AGAGAPOET
    10
    I from Czecho, and game arrive from game webbsit yesterdai. This game is lik goign out on a rael skatbord and feling the wind throuh your hair. Grafic is good, gamplay is good. All round a very good game for the small price of 130 euros Expand
  2. MattC
    8
    This game is fun. Its a game anyone in your house can play. We keep the game set on Casual mode, which means the game does all the steering for you. You simply lean on the board to choose your path at certain checkpoints. To do a trick you ollie, then tip the board to do a kick or heel flip. To do a grab, block one of the sensors while in the air. To do varials or heel flips ollie, then rotate the board in the air. To do a manual you just balance on the board like a skater would. I don't understand all the hate for this game. I tried playing on confident for about 30 seconds, and started going in circles. Keep the game on Casual and its fun to play. Expand
  3. JRM
    1
    I would have given the game a 2, but the price brought it down a notch more. The game is terrible. There really isn't much more to be said that isn't already said by many, many others. Tony Hawk defending this rip-off is an embarrassment. Expand
  4. Travis
    0
    I am currently 21 years old and have been gaming since I was given an 64 for Christmas when it launched. Never before have I seen such a lackluster, broken title. I would rather play through rogue warrior twice than spend 10 minutes with this game, and that's pretty sad seeing as rogue warrior is a joke. Activision will never be getting another dollar of my money as I feel they ripped me, and anyone else who purchased this day one before reviews off. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Collapse

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