Software:MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald

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Short description: 2000 video game
MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald
MTV Skateboarding Featuring Andy MacDonald cover.jpg
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.

Reception

Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
DreamcastGBCPCPS
AllGameN/AN/AN/A1.5/5 stars[9]
CGSPN/AN/A2/5 stars[12]N/A
Consoles +N/AN/AN/A-10%[13]
EGMN/AN/AN/A2.33/10[14][lower-alpha 1]
Game InformerN/A6.75/10[15]N/A3/10[16]
GameSpot2.9/10[17]N/A5.1/10[18]2.3/10[19]
GameZoneN/AN/A8.4/10[20]7/10[21]
IGN2/10[22]7/10[23]5/10[24]4/10[25]
Next GenerationN/AN/AN/A2/5 stars[26]
Nintendo PowerN/A5.9/10[27]N/AN/A
OPM (US)N/AN/AN/A1/5 stars[28]
Aggregate scores
GameRankings39%[3]61%[4]62%[5]48%[6]
Metacritic40/100[7]N/AN/A40/100[8]

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".[26]

The game was a runner-up for GameSpot's annual "Worst Game" award among console games, which lost to Spirit of Speed 1937. The staff dubbed it as "unplayable and ugly".[29]

Featured Skaters

  • Andy Macdonald (skateboarder)
  • Danny Way
  • Sal Barbier
  • Rob Dyrdek
  • Stevie Williams
  • Colin McKay
  • Josh Kalis

Soundtrack

  • OPM - “Heaven Is a Halfpipe”
  • Pilfers - “Climbing”
  • Goldfinger - “I’m Down”
  • Deftones - “Street Carp”
  • Cypress Hill - “(Rock) Superstar”
  • System of a Down - “Sugar”
  • Snapcase - “Twentieth Nervous Breakdown”
  • Pennywise - “Might Be a Dream”
  • No Use for a Name - “Life Size Mirror”

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.

References

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  2. "PR - 10/20/00 - THQ SHIPS MTV SPORTS: SKATEBOARDING FEATURING ANDY MACDONALD FOR DREAMCAST". 2004-04-16. http://www.thq.com/Corporate/PressReleases/press-234.asp. 
  3. "MTV Sports: Skateboarding Featuring Andy Macdonald for Dreamcast". CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on May 5, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505063125/https://www.gamerankings.com/dreamcast/198011-mtv-sports-skateboarding-featuring-andy-macdonald/index.html. Retrieved April 2, 2020. 
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  8. 8.0 8.1 "MTV Sports: Skateboarding featuring Andy Macdonald for PlayStation Reviews". Red Ventures. https://www.metacritic.com/game/mtv-sports-skateboarding-featuring-andy-macdonald/critic-reviews/?platform=playstation. Retrieved April 2, 2020. 
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  13. "MTV Sports Skateboarding featuring Andy Mac Donald [sic (PS)"] (in French). Consoles + (106): 134. November 2000. http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/Consoles%20Plus/consoleplus_numero106/Consoles%20%2B%20106%20-%20Page%20134%20(novembre%202000).jpg. Retrieved April 2, 2020. 
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