Every Tony Hawk Game Ranked From WORST To BEST
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- čas přidán 15. 02. 2024
- The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series exploded onto the scene in 1999 to a stellar critical reception and enviable commercial success, and the series instantly ollied its way into the hearts of the collective gaming public. That said, it definitely has its share of ups and downs, and some might argue that the Tony Hawk franchise seems to consist mostly of a gradual downslope without the customary bit that goes back up at the end. More of an uninterrupted, descending ramp than a half-pipe. Here is Every Tony Hawk Video Game Ranked from Worst to Best.
Featured Tony Hawk video games:
• Tony Hawk: Ride
• Tony Hawk: Shred
• Tony Hawk's American Sk8land
• Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
• Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
• Tony Hawk's Motion
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
• Tony Hawk's Project 8
• Tony Hawk's Proving Ground
• Tony Hawk's Underground
• Tony Hawk's Underground 2
VO: Peter Austin (@ThatPeterAustin) & Ben Potter (@Confused_Dude)
Script: Simon Pike (@Sim198k)
Video Editor: Saul Phillips
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Thanks so much for watching, everyone! What's your favourite Tony Hawk game? Or perhaps just as importantly, which one has the best soundtrack?
3 was a personal favourite for me definitely the best soundtrack behind american wasteland!
Tony Hawk Underground will forever be the best
Best soundtrack for sure has to go to THPS 1+2 and THUG2. 🤌
THPS 2 is, indeed, my top pick as well...but the 2x version for XBox. Why does no one ever talk about that one? It's amazing!
Also, no 1 + 2?
3 best soundtrack, underground best game. Beyond disappointed they never got around to making the 3+4 remaster
“Here I am…doing everything I can!”
"holding on to what I am... pretending I'm a supermaaan!"
BAH! BA DA BA BA BA! BA DA! BA DA BA BAH!
Eric Sparrow is a legendary villain.
Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland was incredible and I will die on this hill.
Agreed. THAW felt like a true successor to the first THUG for me
It was my favorite! No clue how it only got #10!!??
@@KaviDGaming because his criteria was whack. Idk how THUG 2 wasn’t top 5.
X-Men games from worst to best, PLEASE!
This would be awesome
I WILL WATCH NOTHING MORE UNTIL THIS HAPPENS
#1 The hypothetical X-Men Persona clone
Hyperscan version incoming.
Women competed in the x games too
This video unlocked a memory of playing American sk8land online over Nintendo ds WiFi and being amazed as a kid at how futuristic it felt going from a gameboy to playing a full tony hawk game online with strangers.
THUG 2 and THAW were legit my childhood such great games
All I know is THUG2 doesn't get enough credit. Sure, it was cartoony and the story was just Viva La Bam, but the mechanics were amazing.
honestly i think the whole franchise was underrated, each game following the next added new mechanics to master, it felt like you were training to BE a Pro Skater.
But mechanics alone dont make a great game.
only the Modern/Millenials needed a story, all us Gen X just wanted to f***in' skate! lol@@alibabaschultz352
that's why it became the base for the THUG Pro Mod
Thug2 is my favorite Tony hawk game all time personally
THUG at 5 is absolutely criminal
Except it’s not though in absolutely every universe it is not better than the first 4 games
@@Bukkake2023 i would take thug over thps4 any day
@Bukkake2023 Personally I'd switch THUG and 4 because I wasn't as huge of a fan of 4, but it's still one hell of a game regardless. I definitely played a lot more of THUG so a lot of bias edging in there.
The underground games are the best@@Bukkake2023
I know but I think Triple Jump ranks by metacritic scores usually?
THPS2 for the Game Boy Advance deserves it's own slot. Yes it was largely the same game but it's Isometric view and ground-up rebuild deserve so much praise.
38:59 Bit of an error with the editing there as it says Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 came out in 2015 not 2001 as spoken/seen in the video/CZcams Closed Caption.
I noticed that too 😂
Underground 1 is art. Eric Sparrow’s betrayal was earth shattering. It rivals Iago from Othello in both complexity and mystery. Also it was pretty cool “skitching” on cars and kickflipping around the place I guess.
skatespear if you will
THPS 3. Soundtrack alone makes this game 10/10
RIP THPS 1999-2015, 2020. It was a good ride...
As long as it’s not Tony Hawk’s Ride!!!
😉😉😉
This is going to start very peripheral heavy isn't it? :D
Downhill Jam for Wii is underrated, I played through that game like 11 times or so & eventually got a Gold on every mission, & beat at least the easy Staff Ghost (the second level of staff Ghosts were ridiculous on some levels). Easy to pick up, hard to master, basic yet fun, great music.
Really enjoyed it for a spin off title.
The cadence on Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground really caught me off guard!
“Downhill Jam was seen more as a racing game than a skateboarding game” yes that was the point lol
Zebco Fishing is unironically good and has AAA powered vibration motor built into the cartridge. Review when?
THPS 2 is special for sure. It's probably the one the most people played as the original blew up with the demo discs, had a huge install base through word of mouth but by the time enough word spread the second game was already on the way/out in stores. And there's something about the slower engine with all of it's jank and it all still controls surprisingly well. Making it nostalgia personified because it's one of the few you can go back to and feel it truly is every bit as good as you remembered.
I played the THPS demo to death with my brother, but we never got the game.
Then when we played the demo for THPS2, we loved it so much that we just had to save up to get it.
Many happy hours spent playing it, and just as you said, it's one of the very few games that when I play again today (I'm not generally a fan of retro, going back can kill fond memories!) it feels just as good as it did back then!
We later moved on to THUG when we upgraded to a PS2, another very strong game in the franchise, although with a completely different feel to it compared to THPS2, I'm not sure THUG today has the same replayability that THPS2 does.
once a year i play the 1+2 remake and underground 1 + 2 all in one week to get my tony hawks fix
THUG2 is underrated
@@JohnnyVee007 It's story is kinda dumb by today's standards, but it has the best gameplay in the entire series, and in a series that is all about the gameplay, that stands for a lot.
@planescaped oh the story is VERY of its time, but the ability to walk around, sticker slap, the tighter controls, natas spin, tag, etc. It was a real beaut'
I've never been a skateboarding fan, but I got dozens of hours out of American Skateland. It was so much fun. I also remember getting pumped when Holiday by Green Day came on 🤣
These videos are such a gift! Thanks a lot y'all
Sk8land on the DS is an absolute belter. It’s a total throwback to the original two games on PlayStation. I poured so many hours into that game back in the day.
American Wasteland will forever be my favorite 🤷♂️
I long for another tony hawk feat bmx game they could add all the other spin offs in a expanded upon game like that one
Wtf lol
@@Kyeuss ??
Same, it's easily the superior one with THUG and THPS4
Plus, all the people who say THPS1 is good are probably people who never played it lol
How is underground not number 1!!?? 4 and underground are my favorite by far
Wasteland being that low is a crime against humanity!
Nah, it's easily one of the worst (of the good games)
My top 5 - no order
Underground
Thps 3
Thps 2
Thps 4
Thps remake
First time I've googled a question and found a video with that exact title, uploaded within the last month 😂 Nice one dude 👍
Just in time for the announcement of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4!!!
imagine
been waiting for this one for so long!!
For those who don’t know, if you beat Tony Hawk’s underground twice, the ending is you elbowing Eric sparrow in the face.
Underground better be top 5 or I’ll riot
Edit: it’s 5th 😭🤣 acceptable
It should’ve been 1 😭 😂
American Wasteland is the best one. It's the ultimate Tony Hawk game, the culmination of everything Neversoft learned from years of working on the series and mastering that beat-to-death engine. The last proper original Tony Hawk title we would ever get before the series sputtered out. Best comedic tone and most interesting world. Every mode and customization option you could possibly ask for. It has something for everyone. THAW is the best one and I will die on this hill.
Edit: and that SOUNDTRACK. How could I forget?
Ain’t a single chance Project 8 is better than American Wasteland
The story mode is trash and the missions are as well. Wasteland is so overrated and I get why it is because that was the next generations 1st tony hawk game.
Got it on launch for ps3. Was utter shite
THPS2 was one of if not, the very first games that I ever played. I still have my original copy for the Gameboy Advance and since then, I have gotten it for every single system that it's come out on CIB, even the Mac version, the Pocket PC version and even 2x for the original Xbox. There's no other game like it and even if it is completely nostalgia driven, it's such an important game to me and one that I hold so much love for today.
Side Note: I have a guilty pleasure in liking THPS on the GameBoy Color. I know it's bad but I used to have so much fun in the halfpipe mode and I'd try so hard to beat the races even though I still hadn't grasped the controls all that well
I feel you man. First game I played on the PS1 so I know exactly how you feel about it.
I'll never forget the fall of 1999. I was in tenth grade and Tony Hawk 1 was traded and talked about amongst my school. We shared tips, tricks, cheat codes and stories about the alien stage.
Also Tony Hawk American Wasteland is criminally underrated. It took everything that made Underground 1-2 great and turned it on its head. While I prefer Underground 2, Wasteland deserves respect. And a higher spot on the list (lower than Project 8? nah)
Gnarly video, dude!
Honestly I loved proving ground. Most difficult game in the franchise, but had the most features and gimmicks in the whole series. Loved the level design and it wasn’t as glitchy or dropped the frame rate when you traveled from area to area like in thp8 and American wasteland. Severely underrated. Finally getting a sick rating on hawk man and line challenges and seeing your gamertag in the top 10 global rankings was super rewarding
THUG at 5? Nah man. THPS1 is 5. Love the list though regardless. Probably my favorite series ever. Just love hearing people talk about it.
The wasteland placement is criminal
I feel partly responsible for this.
Thank you!
Not sure if I missed it but I did double check the THUG2 entry, was there any mention of THUG2 Remix on PSP? It was mostly the same game but it has some great additions and was an amazing game to be squeezed into the handheld.
There was not. They also completely ignored including 2X as well as 1+2 remake. No idea why as all of those games should be considered in a list as they are not the same as the originals.
They mentioned 1+2.
I love the Xbox and PSP games, but they don't deserve a separate entry if we're throwing the part 3 games in with the 6th gen version.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 is the best one. Especially in Xbox and PS2 best control, creativity, and most wanted.
The saddest thing is that after TH4 I've not even played or even heard of most of these 🫣 such a shame as they really found a niche but as usual with so many franchises they got too greedy and decided quantity over quality was the way forward. I mean if a great Tony Hawk came out tomorrow most of us would steer well clear as we wouldn't believe it 😢
Genuinely, 1+2 should have been on this for not being a remake but a full reboot of the THPS series. Where does it land on the list? Gamers deserve to know!
"Tony Hawk PS4 brought the history mode that will become a standard in the series"
"Tony Hawk PS4 is in fourth for not moving things foward"
Never seen such contradictory sentences so close to each other.
Great video! Love the older TH games. But you didn't mention TH 2x on Xbox. Which is great! Peace.
Great video! Where's Ashton?
I could definitely argue for Downhill Jam being higher up on the list! The Wii controller was responsive enough to make that game very fun. Great locations and massive maps too! Not a bad game at all. 👍
Oh yeah,here we go...list time!
Downhill Jam GBA is so ugly. I love it.
Tony Hawk: Ride IS playable if instead standing, you sit on the board controller. It makes the game MUCH easier. Which probably feels a bit insulting to actual skaters. Works for me though. I'd much rather sit than stand. It's the perfect game for ... skaters with arthritis?
I feel bad for the tiny hawk series. I watched from the beginning and every time they made a game people would get mad "do something different, this is boring" so they did. Then they got "this is not skateboarding, put it back the way it was" so they did. Then it was back to "this is boring. Do something different". They couldn't win. It's a skateboarding game. What did people expect? Even the skate series had trouble keeping things unique and that series was amazing! It's like any sports game series. You can't change it too much or you'll piss off the fans, you can't do nothing because you'll piss off the fans. What are you supposed to do?
Tony hawk american wasteland is so underrated. The reaosn so many people say that’s the best one is cuz even with how easy a lot of it was and ya the concepts were a bit eh, its engine and nifty glitches, and combos and skill ceiling were far beyond any of the other titles. You combos people pulled off in that game while still maintaining the difficulty in pulling off those combos were perfectly balanced. Insanity. Other ones were to limiting or to easy in that regular. But ya the story was WAY to easy.
All my homies hate Sparrow. If any of us see him, I'm telling you it's on sight
Is this the guy that played that My House Doom Mod? Or is this the guy from Switch-Up?
I understand the reasons why you chose this order but it has to be THUG > THPS3 > THPS4 > THUG2 > THAW as the top 5 for me
Tony Hawks American Wasteland, a.k.a. the last good Tony Hawk game
Tony Hawk TS 3 was my favorite. I still play it on my GameCube.
THUG 2 probably have the best gameplay of any 3D game ever,it's almost an orgasm to play,flawless mechanics and addicting environment to explore.
the 1+2 remake were very much their own game imo, very very improved and good fun, but hey ho.
THPS3 (not on PS1) is the best, no one will change my mind.
3, 4, or THUG1 could all be considered best
As an avid gamer and skateboarder this was a pleasant surprise from triplejump
Jerry was a racecar driver
Skate basically killed Tony Hawk games for me and my group of friends who basically all skated.
Yeah, i never understood it. I skated, but never got into the SKATE games. They felt like Guitar Hero. Why would i want to pretend, when i can go outside and actually do it?
I thought that too 4 would be 4, 3, 1, 2, but I am glad 3 got its love. I loved putting stats really down and being more realistic because I was skateboarding all day every day. I would switch thps4 and underground 1
You should do games from worst to best for the next worst to best video!
"And number 1 ...... Skate 2" lol
I would be hard pressed to place the original THPS anywhere in the top 5 lol. I grew up with it, but that game didn't age well. It would be under Thug2, then whatever is considered above that lol.
Aw, man! I wanted to see where you'd place Tony Hawks Pro Skater HD. I guess it didn't fit the criteria...
I still say best video game series of all time. I started skating in about 1997. THPS1 came it when I was 12. Most perfect timing ever.
Underground is still my favorite, and why, oh why, did they remove essential elements from the character creator in later games, like GENDER selection?
I am asking you once again for a rankem for weapon based racing games from worst to best. 😂
i cant hear what peter is doing with his voice now without laughing.
i just always loved the first two
I lost interest in watching this video the moment you said the recent remake would not be included. I feel it was different enough that it deserved to be in the list. In the future when you guys realize how stupid it was to exclude it from the list and remake this video I might give it a chance.
The original quadrilogy was really lightning in a bottle
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater was a great franchise, it's such a shame that it ended in the way that it did, with a whimper. i enjoyed the first 7 games, but then Project 8 really got my dander up, as my fat ass cant even use one of those Skateboard controllers, even if they DID want to work... then finally i heard the Deathknell that was THPS5 and that is when i shed a tear, bowed my head in silence and whispered "i will miss this franchise..."
Flip and twist like Tony Hawk!
I liked THPS5....the space park where you could float longer was rad
American Wasteland and the THUG games are top 3. Fight me.
Every Mortal Kombat from worst to best
American wasteland was my fav
Did I hear Tony Hawks American Werewolf in London?
Yes! I just came here to comment on this. wtf??? 😂
That was actually funny. I remember that movie fondly.
IMO Pandemonium on the N Gage was the superior version to the PS1 version. If I hadn't lost my childhood N gage I'd be playing that game to this day.
2x is on OG xbox, hopefully its as good or better
This goes by metascores, otherwise American wasteland wouldn't be below thps1.
2x is awesome
As someone who Got THPS for the Gameboy Colour For Christmas* (My brother got pokemon blue)
I honestly quite enjoyed it and still wanted to play the console version after my first interaction so even though it's not the best I'm glad I was able to grow with the series as I grew up
I had thps 2 for gbc. Got it from a friend who didn’t want it anymore.
THUG 2, the game that polished the series' mechanics to its highest peak ever, only being at #6 is a travesty
I saw THPS2 at number 13 and wanted to shit my pants until I realized it was the Game Boy color version😅
I’ve never heard that “Tony Hawks Skateboarding” alternate title before. Also…how dare you put THUG below THPS4.
It was called that in some countries in Europe and in Australia and New Zealand, I had it at one point. Made it confusing when the next game was called something else.
Shred was far more than “Ride with snowboarding”. Ride was a fundamentally broken game that would have brought children to tears, Shred is just mediocre.
The draaaagging out of extra syyyyylables, especially when it comes to voooowels was truly grating on the ears on this video. Otherwise solid list, anyone that’s played the series knew how the top 5 was gonna shake out based on Metacritic scores alone. I agree that THPS2 was incredible for the time but if we put overall quality and features into the mix, it is not number one. So many things were added to the series over time that THPS just doesn’t stand up as well to others, namely being able to geeeet offfff of your boooooard and the story moooode.
Love you guys, just offering constructive criticism.
Well the issue is that this video was going off metacritic scores where Pro Skater 2 was rated 98/100 on metacritic which honestly people like these shouldn't always take metacritic as gospel if that were the case then Last of Us 2 is a good game then XD
wtf? american wasteland should at least be in the top 5
My favorite series of all time. I still own the first game on ps1 even though I have no way of playing it. Just can't part with it.
I've been playing it on a Powerbook G3 before the second game came out. I guess that friend of mine was so good at Golf because of the original Tony Hawk's bundle for XBOX. Videos in the making and left over pizza, anyone?! I don't know. Namastè.
Tony hawks proving ground is insanely underrated
Still sucks that Pro Skater 3 + 4 remakes were cancelled 😞 😢
day infinity of begging for an Underground remake. Hawk Man hear my prayers.
Good video! American wasteland is better than project 8 tho >:)