Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder

by Sony / Activision

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• ASIN: B00005NOD6
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 14, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,552 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

Amazon.com Product Description

Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder delivers racing and freestyle boarding that lets you ride as six-time Winter X Games gold medallist Shaun Palmer. Or you can choose from a powerful posse of nine of the biggest pros in the sport.

You'll board at real-life locations around the world, including courses at Aspen, Colorado, and Nagano, Japan. Pull hundreds of trick combos and stick tricks off anything in sight. Tricks include grinds, grabs, plants, flips, and signature moves such as the Palm Air. Interactive controls let you link trick combos to score points and unlock new levels, boards, all-important sponsors, and more. Along the way, you can explore hidden areas.

Gameplay includes single-player and multiplayer modes. For single play, you can take a free ride, do freestyle, or compete in Palmer X-racing. Multiplayer modes feature freestyle, one-on-one, and racing split screens. In race or freestyle modes, you execute linked trick combos to maintain momentum and unlock secret areas.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars mediocre, December 4, 2001

By 

clifford goldenberg (Berkeley, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder (Video Game)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this one - its not up to speed, January 29, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder (Video Game)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Is this game possible?, January 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder (Video Game)

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.

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