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Unrealistic

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: November 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have played the demo to this game on Tony Hawks Pro Skater 3 and it looks too easy. In real life it if impossible to do a backflip off the ground just by jumping, but it's possible in this game. The graphics look good just the gameplay needs worked on.

this game is the best!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: November 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

all i gotta say is go to best buy, or toys r us or wuttever game store and get this game
its the best
if u liked tony hawk 1 2 and 3 then yuole luv this, same controls and everything

...unrealistic sim

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: November 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

...i actuately snowboard,and this game is FAR FAAR from reality, not it the good way SSX was, but in a HORIBLE way. you can do a 900 off of a tiny ledge and land it, and it's only tricks, NO racing!! is that fair? NO!! the only good thing i'd say is in this game, is the music. that prety much it. now if you don't believe me, rent it, but take my warning DO NOT BUY UNTIL YOU KNOW YOU LIKE IT!!!!!! now it is kinda one of those games where some love it and some hate it, but i just happen to hate it, and i'm bringing my hate to you. merry christmas.

yup thats shright this game rocks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this is a realy fun game it is exactly like tony hawk pro skater you have career mode and 2 player. It has great graphics and tight music.

BUY IT NOW!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: November 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I would just like to say this game is awesome. The graphics are really really good. The gameplay is just like the bestselling series Tony Hawk Pro Skater. You can shred any one of nine real life courses. This game is the best buy it now!!

mediocre

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: December 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Take the downhill courses from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, replace the skateboards with snowboards, and you've got yourself a damn fine snowboarding game, right? Wrong. Although Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder borrows heavily from Tony, it's not nearly as good. Not by a long shot. Maybe it's the way your character occasionally lands tricks that look impossible while falling inexplicably at other times. Maybe it's the way he tries to go uphill when you don't want him to. Maybe it's the developers strange fascination with grinds, which seldom occur in real snowboarding but have to be performed adnauseum to advance in the game. Or maybe it's the game's obscene difficulty level Greg and i had to tag team the game for hours to reach the third level. Shaun Palmers does have a few things going for it. The control scheme , level objectives and stat building process have been lifted straight from Tony Hawk Pro Skater, meaning fans of the series will instantly feel at home. You're also free to choose your own path down each run, instead of being restricted to a narrowly defined course, as you are in many snowboarding games. Shaun Palmer's also has a truckload of cleverly hidden secret items, sure to keep you busy for hours. Still, there are way too many better snowboarding games available for Playstation 2, most notably SSX tricky or Cool Boarders 2001, for me to want to spend too much time with this one.

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Put tony hawk pro skater 3 and ssx tricky in a blender and you get, two broken games. Buy this game and you get, one broken game. I would like to tell all of you now that this is NOT tony hawk's pro skater on a snowboard. First of all, the graphics are about 1/9 as good as Tony Hawk's pro skater, which is pretty bad for a PS2 game. Secondly, the trick system is so terrible that neversoft should be ashamed. I played the demo of this game that came with THPS3, and turned it off after the first 2 minutes. I never played it again. Please, buy SSX tricky instead.
I would also like to say that Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 is a great game.

Is this game possible?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game, and naturally, I did not get a full set of instructions. That is the only excuse for why this game was nearly impossible. Sure, I could take the one run, go all over the mountain, do some inexplicably impossible stunts, and find cool things, but there was no physical way I could find to advance to the next mountain. When I had certain boarders, nearly any combination of buttons and/or stick moves would invariably result in exactly the same stunt. Only using Palmer himself seemed to change that aspect. I can only say thankfully it only cost me one rental.

HOURS of ENJOYMENT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: January 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I LOVE this game. It only took me an hour of straight playing to really get the feel of the game and start hitting tricks. It is challenging but the first course is great and large so you have many options for stunts to rack up point. My only complaint is there are not enought GIRL characters to chose from!

Avoid this one - its not up to speed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game thinking that it would be a fun snowboarding game, but after a few hours, I think I should send it back. First the controls are pretty lame - they are merely button presses - you never feel like you have any sense of the snowboarder's true spins or rotations. The tricks only occur when you push the right combo buttons. So it feels robotic and not intuitive. Secondly, the graphics are only worthy of a 1st generation PS2 title - they are pretty bad. The textures are muddled - the riders look pasted on, and there is no real sense of a crisp environment. Last, there is no real sense of flow to the game. I find myself trying to get a good line of tricks together and not being able to pull it off. I tried for a while, but I think the level design isn't too hot. Maybe its because they are trying to implement the feel of a skate game (Hawk) to a Snowboard game, when the two are distinctly different.

Sound is mediocre - the boarder had an annoying scraping sound that reminded me more of a skate game or riding on really icy terrain. It didn't sound right. I'm sure there are some big heavy metal music fans out there - and if this is your style then you will love this game. I chose to play with the music off - it just gets distracting.

The other cheezy part is the whole "extreme"ness of the game. The graphic style and the gothic lettering is more unreadable than it is "cool". The whole thing just feels like Activision is trying to cash in on the success of the Hawk game. What made the Hawk game so good was the game, not any of the "extreme" stuff that came with it.

If you're into snowboarding sim games - I would try the Winter X Games titles from Konami. Last year's game was good and this year's game is also right on - the controls are tight. If you like really arcade style games- try SSX Tricky. But Palmer should be a rental only. Even Cool Boarders 2001 is better than this - and that says a lot.

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