I recently purchased Shaun White Snowboarding for the 360. I do enjoy some sports games, despite the fact that they are the minority of my collection. To be honest, I like parody sports games rather than the actual official sports games (ex. Street 2 rather than NBA 2k)
You pick out a snowboarder who ends up meeting Shaun White (who reminds me of Carrot top oddly enough but after playing this game, I can honestly affirm that I hate him and White equally)
Try learning the controls first. This was a different game, in the matter that the a,b,x,y buttons had nothing to do with tricks. the right trigger is used for crouching/jumping, while the left and right sticks are used for tricks.
This was innovative, I had to admit, playing other snowboarding games like SSX3 before (and loving it immensely) So this raised my hopes for this game.
My hopes were cut down for this game by a myriad of reasons, one of which is that the soundtrack for the game SUCKS. The only song I could come to truly like was "Play that funky Music" by KC and the Sunshine Band.
The second reason, is that the controls are retarded. I remember pulling off one front flip, and on the next ramp, doing everything I thought to be correct, ending up unexpectedly feasting on some snow.
What makes it worse, is the parameters set up for a trick is ridiculous at best, and insulting at worse. You literally have to preform a trick and figure out how to land it.
The third is that the scoring system is abysmal. Sure, I'm the kind of guy that loves to make millions of points a run, just for the hell of it, but in SWS, making 10,000 points a session is excellent. I on one made 43,000, but by then I had no more mountain to shred, which leads me to my final reason...
...The world around me isn't made for my ripping and shredding pleasure.
That's right. Unlike other snowboarding games in which you had ramps, pipes, and all sorts of other goodies to shred on, SWS goes for a more realistic approach, thus ruining a major part of the game. However, You can discover "hidden" backcountry to shred on, but since it is hidden, you have to walk to it. And it's a LONG walk for such a lackluster experience, because keep in mind, SWS is more realistic.
there is something else, the AI on the game is about as competent as the control scheme for it, so expect AI players to mess you up by running into you.
I got tired of the faggots one day, and decided to throw snowballs at them. I then found out that you can get points for throwing snowballs at people. I don't even need any actual skill in the game.
So I ended up spending a day of throwing snowballs at CPU players, and broke my high score.
Overall, I'll give it a 4/10. it brings something new in terms of controls, but doesn't deliver quality that makes me want to run with it.
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