Shaun White Snowboarding
Shaun White Snowboarding is a sports simulation of snowboarding, which is being developed by Ubisoft Montreal and distributed by Ubisoft since November 14, 2008.
Game mechanics
The plot is built around the snowboard and skateboard pro and Olympic gold medalist Shaun White. The game simulates four ski areas in Alaska, Park City, Europe and Japan. Every mountain allows race against computer-generated and online opponents, time trial and stunt events like big air competitions, Freestyle Rides and Death Races. The open-world game can Freeride on the snowboard, walk, be explored by ski lift or helicopter. New departures, game sections and challenges are unlocked 12 coins on the collection of 4 ×. The player character or avatar can be modified and the snowboard, the binding and the clothes are exchanged. In multiplayer mode allows up to 16 players over the Internet or a Local Area Network can meet on a mountain, chatting and driving. However, competitions can be complete only eight players simultaneously.
Shaun White Snowboarding was originally designed for the Wii gaming console with support for the Wii Balance Board.
Representation
The presentation is done by the graphics engine Scimitar that in Assassin 's Creed was used for the first time. The character is animated in the game engine using motion capture, a ragdoll system for falls was not implemented. The console port is required on the Microsoft Windows operating system, the programming DirectX 9.0c and offers three graphics modes with an image resolution of 800 × 600 ( SVGA), 1024 × 768 ( XGA) and 1280 × 720 (HD 720).
Soundtrack
The soundtrack includes 40 licensed pop and rock songs of the past 30 years by bands like Run-DMC, Incubus, Faithless and the rock musician Bob Dylan.
Reviews
"The mission diversity can be truly not stain with fame and the well-intentioned idea as radar is more confusing than helping gray. What initially skate like a schneestöberndes counterpart to EAs and had a welcome replacement for the now three year old Amped 3, is in the long run no more, but certainly no less than passable snowboard entertainment in a largely impressive atmosphere. "
" However, the control, the unfavorable mix of simulation and arcade titles, and even long-term motivation throw Shaun White formidable stick in front of the board. "
"Shaun White Snowboarding is different than previous games in this sector. Here the feel and realism come first. That will not predict with certainty any, because crazy tricks, monster jumps and other absurd things are simply not available. "
"Shaun White Snowboarding really has everything a good match to the runway sport needs. Unfortunately, it fails to control. "
Criticism, there are at Ubisoft developers, which does not respond to the latest generation of processors. Processor Intel i7 with SWS Hyper -Threading is not supported. Users with such processors can not start the game. A patch is not announced until now.