Overhated Games - Part 1: Simpsons Skateboarding

There are a lot of video games out there from the NES to PS3 that get a load of hate that honestly don't deserve it. First, let me explain the difference between an underrated game and an overhated game. An underrated game is a great game that does not receive the praise it deserves and an overhated game doesn't necesarily have to be good, it's just not as bad as everyone says it is.

Overhated Game: Simpsons Skateboarding
The Simpsons is a great long running TV series, as a game series, it's legacy is one mediocrity at best. I will conceive that many Simpsons games were pure crap, Simpsons Wrestling to Bart vs. the World caused many fits of rage and moans of wasted $30 investments all over the gaming world. But there have been some decent titles, Hit and Run was solid, Road Rage was okay and the newly released The Simpsons Game, how original, was passable. Many feel that the Simpsons Skateboarding released for the PS2 many feel belongs in the Simpsons shit list. There were many complaints of poor controls, graphics and shallow gameplay. I think otherwise. First of all, yes the graphics were overly colorful and blocky, but games based off of animated TV shows or films always look like this. Secondly, the controls. Everbody says the controls were crap. Well, seeing as they had the exact SAME BUTTON LAYOUT AS TONY HAWK, HOW COULD THEY BE BAD. X to Ollie, O and Square for tricks, Triangle for grind. It controls fine. Occasionally I found an ollie delay and the grind balance and steering was a little loose, yet workable, but other than that it was fine. Then the gameplay, boring and repetive. WHAT. How iis it boring. The enviorments were large, fun and had interesting nooks and crannies to do tricks off of. There were over 10 locations, a trick park, mutliple characters and humor. How is that boring. I will concede that they had you do the same objectives again and again such as collect the letters to spell this, or do tricks in this amount of time, and the objectives could have been more creative but still I had fun. Then the multiplayer, well, what was wrong with it. They offered skateboarding games, trick attack, grafitti, horse, it was just like the original Tony Hawk Pro Skateboarder. There were time challenges and skill comeptitions. True, I would have appreciated a multiplayer free skate but I don't mind since well, nobody ever played with me. The Simpsons Skateboarding was like a somewhat watered down Tony Hawk's Pro Skateboarding with the Simpsons. It was fun, enjoyable and funny. If I new any place to buy it other than eBay and since nobody gives two hoots about the PS2 anymore, I would recomend it for any Simpsons fan, for others, Tony Hawk's better, but hey, in this one you get to play as an obese, angry, lazy nuclear technician, can you do that in Tony Hawk, I don't think so..