Warning: The teenagers you see playing Tony Hawk Ride above are not having fun. G4’s X-Play recently bombed the game with the dreaded one out of five stars review and even granted it the Golden Mullet Award for being so terrible. According to their review, the game board’s controls were so laggy and poorly-coordinated, that players could do little more than ollie their way through repetitive courses. Visual glitches paired with an ill matched peripheral should make parents re-think this Christmas present, since for the price of one terrible game, you could purchase two brand new, very good games.

With a retail value of $119.99, you would think you’d be getting a worthwhile skating experience, right? Well, apparently wrong. Adam Sessler even suggested that this latest installment of the Tony Hawk series may very well have been the final nail in the coffin for the franchise. Even when you look beyond the lackluster quality of the board, it’s still a mediocre game at best. Want to switch to a normal hand held controller and play the game that way? You can’t. Why? It was designed to work only with the board packaged in the Ride bundle, forcing potential players to shell out the big bucks rather than a more modest price for the game alone. Users are doomed to experience the game in all its glorious failure with no hope of redemption. The average user rating of Tony Hawk Ride sits at a two out of five stars, so heed the warning and do yourselves a favor: get a much cheaper game that won’t be terrible.

[Source: X-Play]