The Tony Hawk series of games are perhaps the only sports games I have ever enjoyed. The first one I ever got my hands on was Pro Skater 3 back in 2001 and it was really like nothing else I had ever played. Instead of being a straight up simulator of real life skateboarding, it knew that in order to make a good video game based on real skateboarding you would need to combine the logic of video games with real life skateboarding. So what you end up with is a game where you skate around locations inspired by real life, doing real skateboarding tricks, but you're also able to jump (or ollie for all of us who understand skateboarding terminology) to super human heights, grind on rails to create earthquakes, break into a haunted house, stop criminals at an airport and all sorts of other crazy things. It's a skateboarding video game that knows it's a video game.