Top 10 Games: Sports
The highest-graded sports games we have reviewed, best first.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2The manual turned a list of tricks into a sentence, and every skateboarding game since has been borrowing that grammar.Read the review
Wii SportsFive minigames that put a controller in more hands than any game before or since.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2 (2020 Remake)A remake that understood the assignment was physics, not polygons, and rebuilt two decade old muscle memory without breaking it.
Tony Hawk's UndergroundGetting off the board sounds like a gimmick until you realise it is the only way to make a skate game about being a nobody.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3The revert closes the loop the manual opened, and suddenly a single combo can eat an entire level without touching the ground.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4Killing the two minute timer opens the parks up, and the series pays for that freedom with a difficulty curve that turns spiteful.
NHL 13True Performance Skating made virtual hockey feel like ice for the first time.
NBA 2K23The Jordan Challenge is the best thing 2K has ever built, and it sits inside a game that still charges you for a haircut.
EA Sports UFC 6The best mixed martial arts game anyone has made, and still less than a three year gap between entries should buy.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 (2025 Remake)The skating survives the transplant intact; the fourth game's whole reason for existing does not.
