Not the best skateboard game in town, but it did work out for me

User Rating: 8 | Tony Hawk's Project 8 X360
Tony Hawk Project 8 was the first skateboarding game I have ever played and I did find it kind of fun, though pretty challenging. One of the bad things about it was it's graphics, it was kind of bad. It didn't look realistic and it looks a bit pixelated.

You could do alot of tricks, like over 50 or so, many are flip tricks or grab tricks. There are also manual, invert, grind and special tricks. Special tricks are basically tricks that need a special meter to fill up before doing the trick. The controls are weird too for those tricks. Like a spent half an hour trying to do a special grind trick. It will take some time to get use to a special trick.

There is also a thing called "Nail the Tricks". You basically press the 2 control sticks at once(while in the air) and you will go to slow mode and the two sticks will let you control each of your feet. So you are like making your own tricks, though I find controlling it is annoying but it takes time to master.

There are also challenges which are in 3 difficulties. Amateur, Pro and Sick. The challenges are mostly doing these tricks while being filmed, taking photos of your tricks, street marking challenges and Nail the Tricks challenges.

Overall if you like skateboarding games and you don't mind bad graphics and weird controls go for it.