Ubisoft hits the slopes with the Balance Board
by Chris Greenhough 
{ May 29th 2008 at 10:15AM }
Slowly but surely, more Balance Board-compatible games are appearing, justifying your purchase of Nintendo's newest peripheral in the process; by our calculations, Ubisoft's Shaun White Snowboarding is the eighth title to make use of the Board (after Wii Fit, Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party, We Ski, Boogie Superstar, Don King Presents: Prizefighter, All Star Cheer Squad, and Skate It).
IGN has the first details and screens on the game, which has the advantage of full Balance Board integration, two- to four-player multiplayer support, and the "full involvement of Shaun White" (apparently he's A Big Deal in the world of snowboarding). It also has the disadvantage (for this blogger, at least) of not being 1080° Snowboarding.
Shaun White Snowboarding is due for release during the coming holiday season, and you can catch
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
blarney @ May 29th 2008 10:22AM
looks pretty good!
Glancing Aft @ May 29th 2008 10:35AM
Between this and Skate It the balance board is looking to become and awesome accessory. Too bad We Ski is such a lame game (being that I am a skier)...
Dustin @ May 29th 2008 10:52AM
Those graphics are god awful.
ruzkin @ May 29th 2008 8:57PM
No excuse for those shitty environmental graphics. SSX1 did it better.
Plumpspork @ May 29th 2008 11:47PM
I am actually looking forward to this, even though the graphics arent the best...
wiilover @ May 30th 2008 7:29PM
i heard from invisible walls that it is really realistic and the graphics are some of the best on wii so maybe it actually looks better or they changed it or something but there is 90 percent chanve that im gettin thins game