Cool Boarders 3

by 989 Studios

Product Features

• ALL TIME CLASSIC
• GREAT BOARDING GAME
• GREAT FOR ALL AGES
• ALL-TIME FAVORITE
• HARD GAME TO FIND

Product Details

• ASIN: B00000IFKW
• Item Weight: 5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,970 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

GameSpot Review

Cool Boarders 3 is drastically different from its predecessors. And unfortunately for fans of the series, it's not the good kind of different. Sure, it looks a whole lot better and has a ton of tracks and events to try, but the bottom line is that it just isn't much fun to play.

One reason it fails is the game's new control scheme. Even after hours of trying to get used to the control, you'll still be wishing it was set up like Cool Boarders 2. The control doesn't have that precise, in-control feeling when you're executing tricks, although when using the Dual Shock, the analog stick is rather nice to use for basic boarding. The new jump meter is an unnecessary pain and ends up forcing you to play extremely mechanically. You have to press and hold the jump button down at the right moment when you're approaching a jump so the indicator is at the height of the meter when you release the button. While it may not sound too menacing, once you give it a try you'll know just how much of a pain it is.

Course quality is another factor that leads to the game's overall lameness. Sure it has 34 tracks, but they're all mostly short and narrow. The developers seem to try to compensate for this by making events like the half pipe best out of three. The new events like boardercross, slalom, and slope style are welcome additions to the game.

In addition to the bad control and weak course design, you'll miss the carefree feeling of happily boarding down the mountain. Instead, that's been replaced with Road Rash-style punching on the course. I'm usually all for fighting, but it's so out of place and so poorly implemented that it might as well not even be in the game.

The graphics are Cool Boarders 3's shining moment. The terrain, snow, and trees all look really good. The animation of the different boarders as they elegantly carve down the mountainside, pulling off moves and grabs, is all very fluid. Even the new interface and art look fairly impressive. While the sound effect for the board scraping over patches of ice in the snow is an exceptionally nice effect, the sound and music overall are fair.

Unfortunately, Cool Boarders 3 isn't the sequel we had all hoped for - changing developers for this third game really hurt the series a lot. --Ryan Mac Donald
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Product Description

COOL BOARDERS 3 brings the actions and excitement of snowboarding to the PlayStation. Choose from over 13 different riders and 22 boards, and then hit one of the 34 courses. Race through the course as fast as possible in the boarder-cross and slalom events, or concentrate on pulling off big tricks in the halfpipe, slope style, and big air events. For those who want test all of their skills, try the tournament mode and compete in all five events. When competition gets to be too much, try to perfect all of your moves in the practice mode. If your friends think they get down the mountain better than you do, make them put their money where their mouth is with the two-player mode. No matter how you play, the analog control makes taking charge of the action easier than ever. All of the action in COOL BOARDERS 3 will keep boarding bums busy for days

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hard start, fun in between, but like any game, gets old., November 17, 1999

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cool Boarders 3 (Video Game)

Cool Boarders 3 is more advanced than Cool Boarders 1 or 2. It is the best of snowboarding games out there although this game is particularly more difficult to ascertain a hold on it. It's tricks are very elaborate but the speed of the game and the difficulty of the tricks make it a hard game to master. Going to the learning section on the game is probably the best tecnique before trying to master the halfpipe or even the regular arcade. =) Is that any help?

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cool Boarders 3, January 2, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Cool Boarders 3 (Video Game)

Cool Boarders 3 is a great snowboarding game. As soon as I began to play it, I loved it much more than Cool Boarders 2. This game has awesome graphics of the snowboarders while they are on the course. Also some of the backgrounds are flat-out amazing but the trees and stumps could've been a lot better. This game uses fast realistic-style Snowboarding for enough fun to last a while. This game also includes tons of awesome new tricks. Also the number of different modes is great but when you play angainst the CPU the game is just plain easy. I give it 4 out of 5 so it is still a very cool game. I haven't played Cool Boarders 4 but I can only imagine what EA has done this time...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A cool game, November 11, 2000

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Elizabeth Zahodnick (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cool Boarders 3 (Video Game)

This game is pretty cool, but after a few days it got a little boring, even thow it is probaly the best snowboarding game ever. I think every thing is good except the tricks! I don't think their are anoth. Any way its a great game, if you like extreme sports games. If not, play it at your friends or rent it.