Cool Boarders 2

Other products by Sony

Product Features

• Playstation One
• 18 Burton Snowboards
• 40 New Tricks
• 9 New Downhill Tracks
• NEW!!! 2 Player Versus Mode

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00002STQV
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 1, 1997
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,306 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

Product Description

GameSpot Review

Fakie to backside Alleyoop 900 shifty. Frontside backflip lien air 540. Backside Indy Nosebone to tweak 1080... What does it all mean? It means that Sony's Cool Boarders 2 is an awesome snowboarding game and one of the best trick/stunt racing games since Uniracers for the Super Nintendo. It's also one of the most difficult.

You have your choice of five play modes. Freestyle mode sends you down a long track with tight turns, narrow passages, and a handful of jumps. Scoring is based on time, number of wipeouts, and tricks performed on the jumps. Halfpipe mode is one giant (you guessed it) halfpipe, allowing for dozens of attempts at pulling off the perfect alley-oop crippler 720. Scoring is entirely based on tricks. The Big Air mode is essentially like a ski jump with just one chance to go for maximum distance and rotation as well as throwing in as many grabs as you can before hitting the ground. In Competition mode, you perform against As or other players in split-screen mode through the three previous modes. Finally, the relaxing Board Park mode is unscored, with play similar to that of Freestyle mode, only with a much mellower track.

Control is incredibly difficult to master in Cool Boarders 2. Even a simple 180 involves getting up to speed and pointing at the correct angle if there's any kind of lip involved, holding the D-pad left or right, then pressing and holding the X-button, and finally releasing the button before the D-pad. Timing is essential. The longer you hold the two down, the more spin you get. If you add any interesting grabs, you must release them before touching down again, or you'll wipe out. Halfpipe mode is great for learning how to control the board as well as for learning tricks, since it has no obstacles and plenty of lip for jumping. Don't even think about racing down the Freestyle tracks before you've mastered a few moves. Otherwise, the occasional jumps will only frustrate you, and you won't catch any air. Once you've got a handle on dropping back in, you'll really start to enjoy the freedom the game provides. Huge hang times, 1080 degree spins with flips, and grabs that drastically alter your aerodynamics all combine to make flight over the alpine tree tops really feel like soaring.

Though the "boarders" themselves are choppy looking and suffer from a fair share of polygon dropout, the animations of the various tricks are quite smooth. Sometimes their smoothness is exaggerated, allowing for slow, lilting rotating tail grabs and extremely gradual backflips. These feel and look great and are a rewarding payoff for the 90 minutes most of the tricks take to learn. Many of the backgrounds are pretty sketchy looking, and the courses often have regularly spaced visible seams between the track's textures.

With its many modes of play and dozens of moves to master, Cool Boarders 2 is much better than the original. The simplicity of the Halfpipe mode alone is extremely addicting and offers hours of challenging "drops." Even if you dislike racing games or wince at the word "extreme," Cool Boarders 2 is recommended, especially to fans of other combo-driven gaming styles. --Josh Smith
--Copyright ©1999 GameSpot Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of GameSpot is prohibited. GameSpot and the GameSpot logo are trademarks of GameSpot Inc.

Product Description

The ULTIMATE Snowboarding Experience.

See all Product Description

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a playstation classic, May 28, 2002

By	L. Powles "mpowles" (Palatine, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the best game in the Coolboarders game series. This status is due largely to its easy to learn play control and fun modes. The five modes are Competition, Freestyle, Big Air, Halfpipe, and Board Park. The competition mode is a series of 9 sets, starting with a big air round. The best big air tricks combined score wins the 1st place starting position in the next race. 2nd highest gets second, and so on. In freestyle, there are 3 courses to start with. Once competition has been won, all 10 courses can be accessed. Big air is simply a trick mode. Halfpipe is the same, only in a halfpipe with a time limit and multiple tricks. Board park is just a leisure mode win which you can ride all over the park doing tricks (to beach boys melodies!! lol)to bring up the "cool" meter. the games modes and boarders are rated here:

Yaggi: Good beginners player, good for tricks, but NOT good on the ice fang. 8/10

Jin: Nothing but boarder cross. If you are good at boarder cross (freestyle), use this guy in competitions. If not, use Irin. 6/10

Irin: Good for beginners, has no true weaknesses except speed. 8/10

Cindy: Advanced. Can do anything except the Titan's Toe big air. 7/10

Boss: The best. No weaknesses, but cant be used in competition. He is earned after beating the competition on mirror mode. 10/10

Gray: best trickster in the game. unavailable in comp. He is earned after a 38.5 or better on the halfpipe. 10/10

Snowman: really fast, but terrible. Earned after all the preset freestyle records have been broken. Not available in halfpipe or competition. 4/10

COURSES:

White resort: Easy and fun. 8/10

Sunset Downhill: cool, and all about speed. 9/10

Bear in the Forest: Too many trees to have fun. 6/10

Railroad Trip: One of the best. Kinda basic and not at the same time. 9/10

Take it Easy: Like the name says: Too easy. 5/10

Pipeline Canyon: Long, and ok. 8/10

Freezing Point: very advanced, my personal fave. 10/10

Winding River. its ok, but not that great. 7/10

Snow Ruins: The 2nd hardest, and its really cool. 10/10

Dive Into the Cave: Lots of fun, hardest and 3rd best course in the game. 9/10

Stadium Kicker: A basic big air, but not enough height for good tricks. 6/10

Ice Fang: The best big air. There is plenty of air time. 10/10

Titan's Toe: Advanced big air, and its ok. 8/10.

All in all, this is a great game and i would recommend it to anyone. The game is also suitable for anyone. Even if you are not a sports fan, this is a game you will love.

3.0 out of 5 stars Personally I like Cool Boarders 1 better!, July 31, 2003

By	"royal_guard_elite" (NY United States) - See all my reviews

Though this adds more to it..I found Cool Boarders one to be smoother and simpler to control. I'm selling this one and buying an older version!

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun to play, but gets old., November 22, 2000

By A Customer

This game is great if you don't have anything better to do. Cool Boarders is really to easy in my opinion. Also after a while the tracks get boring and they start to seem alike which can be confusing. But it's still a cool game, like being able to pick what the person's wearing and being able to create your own snowboard. Also their is a whole lot of tricks,cheat codes, and boards to pick from.