Psuedo Sports Games: The 12 Best Unrealistic Sports Titles

6: Base Wars

Psuedo-Concept: Major League Baseball meets Robot Wars

12 Great Psuedo-Sports Games

Of all the games on this list, the concept of Base Wars seems the most realistic. Imagine Major League Baseball without humans, but teams comprised entirely of robots, tanks, and cyborgs. The idea may seem ridiculous, but Base Wars perfectly executed the combination of sports, science fiction and mech battles. Interestingly enough, you don't even need to score to win the game. Just kill enough opposing players, and your robot death army automatically earns a victory. Brutal, but badass.


5: SSX 3

Psuedo-Concept: Snowboarding meets Moon Acrobatics

12 Great Psuedo-Sports Games

SSX has always been a personal favorite; its wide and memorable cast of characters, out-of-this-world tricks and fantastic visuals always made this extreme snowboarding sim a game to keep an eye out for. Bringing back fan favorite characters from the original SSX all the while expanding the roster of insane super-moves seen in SSX: Tricky, SSX 3 was an amalgam of everything that made the SSX snowboarding series great: deep customization, open-world gameplay, fantastic music, and some of the most ridiculous stunts this side of Tony Hawk.


4: Airblade

Psuedo-Concept: Tony Hawk meets Back to the Future II

12 Great Psuedo-Sports Games

If you've ever wanted to live the hoverboarding moments of Back to the Future II, look no further than Airblade on the PlayStation 2 (and pretend that Sonic Riders doesn't exist). With 90-percent Tony Hawk and 10-percent Jet Set Radio, this futuristic skateboarding title shined with an awesome trick system, catchy music, and a healthy disrespect for faceless government goons, this game is everything that skateboarding titles can't deliver. Give us hoverboards, or give us us death!


3: Mario Kart Wii

Psuedo-Concept: Go-Kart Racing on Steroids and Dynamite

12 Great Psuedo-Sports Games

Every time you hear that Blue Shell coming, you know that you're boned. Mario Kart Wii boats crazy gameplay for a racer, and remains one of the few racing franchises where making it to the finish line can be more difficult than staying in first place. You don't know stress unless you've been involved in a mad dash to finish line on Rainbow Road, gotten a few meters within reach of the finish line, then gotten slapped in the back of the head with a damn BLUE SHELL. Oh, the screaming and yelling.


2: NBA Jam

Psuedo-Concept: Slamball meets the NBA

12 Great Psuedo-Sports Games

There are some things you never forget: stealing your first kiss, earning the wheels to your first car, leaping twenty-something feet into the air, your head the size of a hot-air balloon as you slam-dunk a flaming basketball in a glass-shattering score? NBA Jam took everything that made basketball fun and amped it up to eleven. With real-life players from Charles Barkley to Larry Bird all the way to playable team mascots, and let's not forget Bill Clinton himself as an unlockable character! NBA Jam was basketball the way it was meant to be played: no rules, no limitations, and big heads. No, seriously. Really, really big heads.


1: Mario Strikers Charged

Psuedo-Concept: Major League Soccer meets Rollerball

12 Great Psuedo-Sports Games

Whenever the GamePro Editors are missing from their desks, it's usually for one of two things: an overdue lunch break, or a window-rattling match of Mario Strikers Charged on the Wii. You can't get a more personality-driven experience out of the Mario cast than this, either. Even Princess Daisy slaps her butt at the camera after an electrifying goal. Mario Strikers Charged is compelling proof that all Nintendo-licensed sports games need these three things: more explosions, more deadly weapons and more Teen-rated taunting.

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wutisupmon

Gamepro why do you always, in all of these countdowns, put the first place game on the article's cover? Seems very anti-climactic.

Toneman

I really love Mario Strikers... good to see it up there. Same with Kart Wii... best Mario Kart yet in my opinion. Another games that surprised me was Mario Hoops 3 on 3 for DS... controls are extremely well made, and the game is really fun!

PlasmaSnake

DeeDeeDee115 wrote:

i agree with number one but what about SONIC RIDERS

Oh ya i licked Sonic riders to

teh2Dgamer

I think NBA Jam should be number 1, but I know how much the GP staff loves Strikers, so I guess I can understand why you put it on there.

It's interesting to see Airblade on there. The "Professional" reviews absolutely murdered the game. As you can see, Gp itself only gave it a 2. I take it there's someone on the staff who liked that game. I have a demo of it myself and from what I've played, I've enjoyed of the game. It's in no way horrid.

Isn't it a sequel to Trick(and that word you can't say on this site) on the DC?

Nathanp

Don't forget Cyberball for Sega Genesis! That game was awesome and very addicting back around 1990.

MasterGamer666

wutisupmon wrote:

Gamepro why do you always, in all of these countdowns, put the first place game on the article's cover? Seems very anti-climactic.

Ya i noticed that it always ruins the suspense

sammykewlguy

Mario Kart is the best game on this list! I don't really care for "realistic" sport games, but I love the games on this list because they're something you can't play in real life. Really awesome.

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