MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald

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MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald
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Developer(s) Darkblack
Yellowbelly Corporation (GBC)
Publisher(s) THQ
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, PlayStation, Game Boy Color, Dreamcast
ReleaseMicrosoft Windows, PlayStation
  • NA: September 13, 2000 [1]
  • EU: November 3, 2000
Game Boy Color
  • NA: September 13, 2000 [1]
  • EU: November 17, 2000
Dreamcast
  • NA: October 20, 2000 [2]
  • EU: November 17, 2000
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald is a sports video game developed by Darkblack and published by THQ for Game Boy Color, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation and Dreamcast. It features skateboarder Andy Macdonald on the cover.

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Reception

The Dreamcast and PlayStation versions received "unfavorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [7] [8] Jim Preston of NextGen said of the latter console version: "No matter what all the marketing tells you, this has all the grit and soul of an Egg McMuffin," calling it a "LAM3 SK8R". [27]

The game was a runner-up for the "Worst Game" award at GameSpot 's Best and Worst of 2000 Awards, which went to Spirit of Speed 1937 . The staff dubbed it as "unplayable and ugly". [30]

Soundtrack

Notes

  1. ↑ Three critics of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the PlayStation version each a score of 1.5/10, 2/10, and 3.5/10.

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