Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5
If you speak to a large proportion of people who were playing games in the late nineties, most people will have fond memories of Tony Hawk’s: Pro Skater 2. So you can imagine how excited people were when Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 was announced earlier this year. Oh, how we should have known better. What we got was quite possibly the most disappointing game of the year and one of the worst games released this year, too.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 was a complete glitch fest and featured uninspiring, jarring gameplay. Not to mention the visuals seemed to have been taken straight from the PlayStation 2 era. I guess Activision should be given some credit for acknowledging it had published a pretty terrible game. The almost 8gb patch on PlayStation 4 that was released in November that attempted to address the a lot of the game’s issues may have been an attempt at damage limitation but, unfortunately for Mr. Hawk and Activision, the damage had already been done.
Players aren’t likely to be so easily burned by the series again, and there we were just a few months back with so much promise for the return of one of gaming’s most treasured franchises. Pro Skater 5 flopped so hard that it crushed our dreams and most definitely did not live up to the expectations of the fans who were most looking forward to it.
