It's okay to like Shaun White Snowboarding
by Chris Greenhough 
{ Sep 19th 2008 at 7:10PM }
Poor Shaun White Snowboarding. Ubisoft's Balance Board snowboarding title is still most famous for being played by a barefooted Cammie Dunaway during Nintendo's ill-received E3 press conference, rather than for ... actually looking quite nice. Surely there are others out there who privately think this looks like it might be fun?
Personally speaking, this blogger largely enjoyed the SSX games, and absolutely loved 1080° Snowboarding on the N64, and different bits of this video reminded us of both. If you also think Shaun White shows promise, but you'd rather keep this extremely shameful secret to yourself and save internet face, give us a wink or some other coded hint in the comments.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Alvin @ Sep 19th 2008 7:30PM
Cammie...that's all i think about when i hear Shaun White Snowboarding
rob @ Sep 20th 2008 10:47AM
I want it so bad, along with Skate-it.
seth @ Sep 19th 2008 7:54PM
All I have to say is - Why get this when Skate it will be out relatively soon with better functionality with the balance board.
liquidninja @ Sep 21st 2008 11:16AM
I've heard from people that played these games at E3 that Sean White's controls were better than Skate it. But those were Betas.
Gun Barrier (Gamer Tag) @ Sep 19th 2008 8:22PM
i was planning on getting it when i saw it on g4, but then i found out that it was a multi console game. Multi console games are usually bad on the Wii. I don't think I would like it on the 360 either.
Hamster @ Sep 19th 2008 8:29PM
When Nintendo started their E3 by showing Ubisoft shovelware, we should have known there and then that it wasn't going to be a great show.
Looking at this trailer I see that Ubisoft still haven't bothered updating the graphics beyond "late-nineties" yet. I know that does require some actual effort and talent and this is Ubisoft we're talking about, but still.
Matthew @ Sep 19th 2008 9:39PM
Personally, a revamped SSX with classic control brought back would fuel my excitement for a snowboarding game. I'll pass on this.
Bobert Hepker @ Sep 19th 2008 10:09PM
;)
Tesche @ Sep 20th 2008 8:25AM
Honestly, I'm not gonna judge this one just yet...it looks promising....as far as following the tradition of SSX and 1080
1) Graphics: actually look kinda stylized...not necessarily bad.
2) Control: we won't really know until the finish build is getting played by people
3) Skate: could be vastly superior, it's true
Rick @ Sep 20th 2008 11:09AM
i bought a wii fit only to play shaun white and skate. got a friend that is doing the leveldesign on shaun and he said it WILL be awesome !
Can't wait to ride !
StageProps @ Sep 21st 2008 3:15AM
42...garden...loophole...lacerated...127.231...
Johnnyg0 @ Sep 22nd 2008 12:55PM
What I like about this game is that it looks more realistic than SSX.. I didn't liked SSX because of the way you need to perform 26 figures in air from a single jump to make enough points to make it in the top 3 positions (who would've thought making ten 360 would lead you to failure:). This looks more like real snowboarding.