I never had Tony Hawk down as the type to wear cranky pants, but now the Birdman has taken to sulking about the critical reception given to Tony Hawk: Ride .
Ride is about the gazillionth Tony Hawk game released since the series debuted in 1999, and comes with a skateboard peripheral that is supposed to simulate the riding of an actual skateboard in the game. Except, according to the reviewers … it doesn’t.
A number of critics have accused the board of being unresponsive and frustrating to use, a game-breaking gimmick that is yet another insult to a once-great series. Currently, the game has a score of 46% on Metacritic , making it the 440th best game on the PS3, out of all 460 titles .
Well, Tony’s not having this . Speaking to the Sudbury Star, the skateboarding legend suggests that the dozens of people criticising his game – the people who review games professionally – are all wrong , and he is right .
“They were ready to discredit it before they even tried it, and if it didn’t play exactly how they imagined it… then they passed it off. I don’t agree with people who say the board’s not responsive. I think that they’re just not giving it a fair shake. And I think a lot of them came into it with an attitude that it’s going to suck.”
But jeez, why does skateboarding legend and multi-millionaire Tony Hawk care?
“I brought this idea to Activision, and I saw it through, I’ve been playing it every step of the way and I am very proud of it.”
Ohhhh, makes sense now. Those nasty reviewers made it personal .
[ Sudbury Star , via Kotaku ]
