Shaun White Snowboarding - PS3

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)
Release Date: 11-1-2008
Moby Score (1-10): 6.5
Genre(s): Sports, 1st-person, Licensed, Snowboarding / skiing, Tricks / stunts, Behind view, Direct control, Europe, North America, Japan (Modern/Futuristic)
Media Type(s): Physical

Enter a snowboarding world of total freedom. Create your own experience and choose when, where, how, and with whom you want to ride. Developed in close collaboration with Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White—the most successful snowboarder in the history of the sport—Shaun White Snowboarding is the next-gen game that redefines the action sports genre.

• Open-world mountains: Choose how you ride in open-world mountains across the world. Conquer the extreme peak conditions, create your own paths in the back country, or compete with fellow riders in the terrain parks.
• Friends always around: Play in a world where your friends are always around. Do your own runs on mountains populated by real gamers, or join your friends for a quick session from anywhere in the mountains.
• More than just snowboarding: Have fun with your friends on and off the board. Throw snowballs, hike to access secret spots, or film your friends doing ripping tricks. Upload your videos online to share with the world.
• Riding styles: Express yourself through tricks, riding styles, and highly customizable avatars—both in single-player and in the online world. Use the intuitive dual analog control to pull off a huge variety of tricks that express your style.
• Next-gen technology: Built on the Assassin's Creed© engine, this game creates a massive world with gorgeous visuals and realistic non-player character interaction. This is also the first time a snowboarding game is completely driven by physics instead of animation.
• Authentic snowboarding: Ubisoft has worked closely with Shaun White to infuse the gaming experience with authenticity, personality, and humor. Shaun is a friend and mentor in the game, and will help you with your skills. If you are deemed worthy, you may even be able to play as Shaun in the game …

Shaun White Snowboarding gives the player, as the title suggests, a snowboard and sends him off to four ski run locations around the world (Europe, Alaska, Japan and a fictitious location called Park City) under the watchful eye of professional snowboarder Shaun White himself as well as other professionals, moderators, pilots and such. But before the player can go on the slope, he has to create his character by choosing not only from different body looks but also from different clothes and snowboards.

During the course of the game, the player earns money by completing the challenges, which can in return be invested in more stylized clothes and additional types of snowboards. Each of the boards has six stats like balance or speed and not all of them are the best possible option for every given situation. While in a race speed is an important factor, a board with a higher rating in rotation allows for better stunts.

The game puts the player in an open world with them free to roam around the slope as they please. Several lifts and even a helicopter bring them to different starting locations but if they wans, they can also walk and discover hidden areas by doing so. By doing tricks, with controls using mainly the analog sticks similar to Skate, the player earns respect points. And on the track are, besides many obstacles to perform tricks on, challenges like the Jibfest, in which only tricks on rails and boxes count or Freestyle in which every trick counts. Others include the Death Race, in which the player needs to get to the goal before everyone else but as the name suggests, everything is allowed including ramming opponents and throwing snowballs to get them off-balance. There are also some challenges like King of the Hill that can only be done with at least one other human player joining in.

The multiplayer mode is basically an extension of the single player experience. Everything that is available in single player, can also be done with other players online or over LAN. The other players are also just dropped into the open world with the freedom to just do what they want on the server.

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