IGN's Nic Vargas gave the game a score of 8/10, praising its purist gameplay whilst lamenting the lack of certain modes such as park creator and split screen multiplayer. The reviewer from GameTrailers gave the game a score of 7.4 and stated that "Pro Skater HD" "isn't flawless, but... it at least gets off on the right foot". Lucas Sullivan of GamesRadar felt that "old-school fans of the franchise will be disappointed by what the game lacks, and gamers who’ve never laid eyes on a PS1 will find the mechanics and level design sparse". Destructoid gave the game 4.5/10, stating that the execution isn't handled as well as the original games, as well as some of the design choices the developer made. G4TV gave the game a 4.5/5 and praised the console versions' online multiplayer and soundtrack. "Official Xbox Magazine" gave "Pro Skater HD" an 8/10. They praised the game's new big head mode. "Pro Skater 5" reverted to catastrophic reviews again and was bashed by critics upon release in September 2015. Most critics noted that the graphics were inferior even to the games released on the PlayStation 2, while the gameplay barely resembled previous releases and was rendered almost unplayable by numerous bugs. Furthermore, the simplistic, bland environments and missions and complete absence of NPCs were noted, and some critics pointed out that better levels could have been designed with the Create-a-Park feature of previous games, while most levels were simply inferior copies of levels from the original games. The game was so rushed to release that it was unplayable without an 8GB day one patch, with only the tutorial and park creator being accessible. "Pro Skater 5" has the fourth-lowest average score of any PlayStation 4 game and the fifth-lowest average score of any Xbox One game and was named the "Worst Video Game of 2015" by "Entertainment Weekly". "Edge" even went so far to call "Pro Skater 5" "an insult to its history, to its licensed skaters and sponsors, to modern hardware, and to anyone who plays it".