Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

Neversoft's 2000 skateboarding masterpiece earned a 98 on Metacritic, making it the highest-rated sports game ever, outperforming FIFA 23's 83 rating by 15 points. Its create-a-park mode, legendary soundtrack featuring Rage Against the Machine and Bad Religion, and the manual mechanic that chained combos into infinity defined a generation of gaming, with 60% of critics at the time calling it the best skateboarding game of all time.