It’s no secret that EA’s skate pretty much demolished the Tony Hawks Pro Skater series in both gameplay value and innovation. Activision, however, isn’t going to stand by the side lines and watch one of their cash cows go to waste.

Enter Tony Hawk Ride, featured in the above introductory video. As you can see, Neversoft is really attemping to up the ante on this one even focusing the entire game around a skateboard shaped peripheral.

Will this be enough to thwart EA’s efforts? Probably not, but we’ll have to see. Oh yeah, get mad at Activision, not me, for including virtual 0 minutes of gameplay footage in the trailer.