So I picked this up last week and find it to be alot of fun if you enjoy Snowboarding / Snowboarding Games. The game feels similar in ways to Skate or Skate 2. The physics are the same, so are the controls (flick it for olies and triggers control your grabs). The online play is entertaining and works like Skate 2's freeskate setup where you can summon a group of people to play gametypes wherever you want on a mountain. Game types include T.R.I.C.K - which is like S.K.A.T.E, best run and so forth. There is no video playback from what I can tell as of yet, but alot more keeps unlocking as I play. Though there is a camera and you can take stills of yourself and others in online play. Sure as hell is 100% better then that Carrot Top snowboarding game, though is only available for Xbox 360. If you are a snowboarder or just enjoy the "Genre" then I would deff pick this up. I was going to post reviews by IGN and so forth, but like always its tainted by being released by a new and up and coming company who didnt pay them off.
Pros:
- $40!
- Endless amount of new spots to uncover.
- Amazing weather system that makes you feel like your always riding new terrain.
- Fun Online Play
- Large Indie Soundtrack
- Smooth flow with great play control and button config
- Ability to "hike" the mountain and place markers (similar to skate)
- More? Im sure im missing some shit
- Fun as fuck
- Possible DLC in the future
Cons:
- No fluid rodeos and rotations (as far as I can so far tell your not able to smoothly combine a rotation and flip to make flairs and rodeo type tricks. its possible to do a 180 mid backflip, but just doesnt look very smooth)
- With the large soundtrack comes plenty of shity songs
- No way to tell who is talking on Xbox Live games
- Need to go through the game to open abilitys to use helicopter to choose areas to drop you off, open clothing as gear / mountains
- Small amount of customizable options?
- Xbox 360 Exclusive (but then again who owns a PS3)
Links:
http://www.gettingstoked.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8fsmIAbCIY