PPR Presents Play Play: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5

isten, we’ve gone at length by now about awful this game really is; it’s bad, and I’m sure we’re all sick of hearing about it…

So instead, here’s a Play Play of us SHOWING you guys just how bad of a video game that Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 really is—we’re kinda sorry about this.

Keyword being “kinda.”

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QCF: OlliOlli

he snap of your deck as the concave flips around your feet, and the shock of landing clean against the ground, sending tremors through the soles of your feet; these are one of the few highs that skateboarding can induce, and it’s been some time that it’s been relevant in video games. While The Birdman took a stab at endorsing the concept of a plastic peripheral that was intended to heighten the appeal skateboarding in video games through physical simulation, the results were far less than stellar, and EA has done little to nothing with its SKATE series since the last entry underperformed in sales back in 2010.

Leave it to an independent studio by the name of Roll7 to introduce one of the most graceful return-to-forms for the genre; OlliOlli is one of the best thumb-twitching reasons to own a Vita.

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