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PRO's I like how realistic the game is, great graphics, that keep up well with the pace of the game. I love the short load time and the versatility to traverse the entire mountain top to bottom, side to side, in a single run without any pauses for loading. I also like how they incorporated the option to unstrap your board and walk around, it really opens up the game, there are places I've gotten to walking that I would have normally deemed inaccessible. I like how you can set markers so that you can immediately return to a certain spot on a run say at the top of the half pipe, virtually instantly once you've already completed your run through the pipe. The ability to change songs at will is cool too. I also like how interactive the games is with the joysticks, and love the new styles of tricks you can throw, that seemed to be missing from earlier games, i.e. spinning on a rail, is out of this world and the physics of the game and the amount of control you need to complete a 180 is insanely realistic. Also I enjoyed how your boards truly do make a noticeable difference depending on the terrain you want to ride it on, whether it be downhill, terrain parks, jumps, speed. CON's This is a personal con, I don't like the style of music they play in the game, I haven't figured out if there's a way to put your own music into the game, but I highly doubt it, it's kind of tough to board to music you don't enjoy all that much. Also there is an adrenaline mode, where you become a god like snowboarder who can break through walls, people, ice, go unnecessarily fast, and other kind of neat stuff. For once I would just like a straight game, with now power ups or boosts or anything. Just a simple snowboarding game. The career has a been a little repetitive thus far, but hopefully it'll pick up, the beginning is dumb and petty and a wast of time. Also the sticking is a little weird at first, and really tough to get used to, and it's really picky and sensitive at sometimes, and just slug like and unresponsive at other times, a very inconsistent control setup, it's kind of tough to tell what kind of trick you;re going to do. All in all I'd give this about a 78% in accordance with what I just wrote here.Read full review
The boarding itself is punishing too, with a control system that won't be for players hoping for a modern SSX. Movement is mapped to the left stick, crouch and jump on the right trigger (in the Xbox 360 version tested), modifiers on the left trigger and grabs on the right stick. The right stick also allows you to perform more severe turns by twisting the board. This is all fine, but putting these controls into practice and being able to go down the mountain without landing on your face is far trickier than it seems. Snowboarding used to be all the rage in video games. Cool Boarders on the original PlayStation and 1080 on the N64 were both must own titles for their respective platforms, and later SSX proved that people couldn't get enough of insane jumps and ridiculous tricks. Then, along came Amped to show that a sim approach could work and the third game in the series made for a solid Xbox 360 launch title. Now a good few years into this console generation, with developers getting to grips with the power at their disposal, a snowboarding game should offer the very best kind of extreme sports entertainment. Ubisoft Montreal's Shaun White tries hard but in the end falls foul of a few rather unfortunate design decisions. Although Shaun White's Snowboarding attempts to offer something in the way of a story, the game's really about you boarding down four massive mountains (Alaska, Park City Utah, Europe and Japan), taking part in events, collecting items for Shaun and playing with friends. Instead of giving you events in traditional video game fashion, this is more or less the GTA of the snowboarding genre, with each mountain free to explore, and events accessed by boarding up to them. With plenty of events to tackle, and coins to collect that unlock new moves, the set-up is great. Soon enough, though, things start to get rather frustrating. Advertisement Collecting items (in this case coins) isn't usually that much fun, so imagine how awkward it is in a game where you're strapped to a board while travelling at speed down a snowy mountain, with locations often at the end of an extremely tricky run. You can get off your board to wander about on foot, but your boarder can't do much, with small ledges and steep inclines putting an end to his adventuring. Collecting all the coins is essential as doing so unlocks new abilities (the first gives you the ability to barge through destructible barriers), but initially it's just not fun. Travelling around the mountain is great when you're going down, but try to head back up and it's either slow or impossible. Thankfully you can quick travel to a few chair lift and helicopter drop off points, but that still leaves you with some distance to travel to get each coin or event and there's a chance you'll fly by the location again (the in-game radar is only of limited use and the main map is one of the worst we've seen in a video game), forcing you to take another chair lift back up again. Getting around becomes a chore very quickly and it's something that can only partially be solved if you make use of the marker system the developers have included. By placing a marker you can instantly warp back to that point at the press of a button, which is great, but that's only of real use to the coin collecting where you're going to have to replay runs over and over again, and you still have to get into the right position to place the marker in the first place.Read full review
First off, I'm a real snowboarder. This game is really realistic with the different tricks that you could do. The story line is great. You have freedom to snowboard everywhere you want! There's a lot of information about this game on you-tube about how to help you get achievements. The gear you can buy is nice. Goggles, boards, hats, gloves, pants, jacket. I liked this game a lot but it is not the best. The competitions are really fun. I'd give it a 8 out of 10 .
Snowboarding used to be all the rage in video games. Cool Boarders on the original PlayStation and 1080 on the N64 were both must own titles for their respective platforms, and later SSX proved that people couldn't get enough of insane jumps and ridiculous tricks. Then, along came Amped to show that a sim approach could work and the third game in the series made for a solid Xbox 360 launch title. Now a good few years into this console generation, with developers getting to grips with the power at their disposal, a snowboarding game should offer the very best kind of extreme sports entertainment. Ubisoft Montreal's Shaun White tries hard but in the end falls foul of a few rather unfortunate design decisions. Although Shaun White's Snowboarding attempts to offer something in the way of a story, the game's really about you boarding down four massive mountains (Alaska, Park City Utah, Europe and Japan), taking part in events, collecting items for Shaun and playing with friends. Instead of giving you events in traditional video game fashion, this is more or less the GTA of the snowboarding genre, with each mountain free to explore, and events accessed by boarding up to them. With plenty of events to tackle, and coins to collect that unlock new moves, the set-up is great..The graphics are TOP NOTCH. THIS IS A MUST BUY GAME OVERALL 9/10 I WAS A BIG SSX FAN AND THIS GAME IS JUST AS GOOD (YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPONTED!)Read full review
I am an avid video game collector and buy whatever i can get my hands on. I was into the SSX games back in the late 90's and early 2000's. This game was designed off the Assassins Creed engine and that is a definate plus. You can go anywhere you dream, but I feel this game is for people that actually enjoy snowboarding, this game is designed in a lifelike atmosphere. It takes some time to get used to. Tricks are easy to pull off but air is minimal. Radar works good just watch where your going cause you do not wana walk back up those mountians. I really cannot say if I would recommend this to a friend, it would depend on the person. It is surely a rent before you buy.
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