Reception
| Reception | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 37.58% |
| Metacritic | 38/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Eurogamer | 2/10 |
| GameSpot | 3.9/10 |
| IGN | 2.5/10 |
The game received negative reviews for its chunky graphics, sound and music, lack of skateboarding tricks, and poor controls. The in-game dialogue got mixed ratings. It currently has an average of 37.58% at GameRankings. Andrew Reiner of Game Informer game the PlayStation 2 version of the game a 1 out of 10 and wrote: "Never before have I seen a developer put forth such an effort to secure the Worst Game of the Year award. I’ll even go as far to say that this may very well be the worst PlayStation 2 game on the market. After spending a significant amount of time with this product, something that I wouldn’t even unleash on my worst enemies, I came to the realization that Simpsons Skateboarding manages to do everything, even the simplest of things, completely wrong. So how downright awful could this game really be, you ask? Well, at one point, I actually found myself contemplating whether or not the developer took it upon itself to create gameplay, or if the action that I was controlling was a strange glitch or bug. Was the testing department on strike? Did EA accidentally ship the early Alpha build? I don’t know what happened exactly, but the outcome is nothing short of a resounding d'oh!" Kevin Murphy of GameSpy wrote about the Xbox version of the game: "The Simpsons Skateboarding should be a case study in bad game design. I've played lots of bad games in my life, folks, but Simpsons Skateboarding has got to be one of the absolute worst. It's among the worst of all The Simpsons games, which is no small feat in and of itself, especially considering that distinction puts it among Bart's Nightmare and The Simpsons Wrestling. There's so much that this game gets wrong I'm amazed that Microsoft allowed it to be released in the first place." In Official GameCube Magazine's review of the GameCube version of the game, Mike Jackson gave the game a 3 out of 5, and wrote about it, simply saying "EA's GameCube effort has taken the characters from The Simpsons and the Tony Hawk engine and combined it. Some of the characters you can play as include Bart, Homer, and Nelson." He then complained about the small character selection, saying that there was "No Comic Book Guy, criminally."
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