Cool Boarders 2001 (PS2)

The PS2 has finally gotten its first COMPLETE snowboarding game. It isn't a boring simulation like ESPN, and it isn't just boarding downhill with over-the-top and patently unrealistic effects like distracting fireworks or huge scoring mulitiplier stars. It has a great balance of realism and goofy fun. The graphics are not as colorful as SSX, but they are about on par with it. As far as comparisons to ESPN go, CB2K1 has much prettier graphics where ESPN's graphics were horribly boring (all white seemingly with no eye candy). The sound in a snowboarding game is admittedly sparse, and this game isn't much of an exception, but one cannot expect much more than ...

The PSOne version of this game is completely different. That game terrible, this one is very good. I think it would've been smarter to rename this game in some way, either by calling it CB 2002, CB 2001 special edition, etc... graphics very good, smooth, and detailed. all-around good visuals. the frame-rate is very nice, this game looks appropriate, and not overdone. not a whole lot to say in this catagory, besides "good graphics" and "great frame rate". sound good music, and the riders all have their little comments to throw out there, such as: "ow, my butt!", and the like. i thought the music was a little ...

UEP Systems has a long running snowboarding heritage spanning back to the earlier days of the good ol' PlayStation, with Code Alien marking the fifth game in the Coolboarders series, which also marks its first outing on the PS2. With EA's fabulous SSX already on the scene drawing in fans Code Alien definitely has its work cut out for it. The main core of Code Alien revolves around the Snowboarding Combined mode. This is split in to two separate events, trick and extreme, the latter being a no holds bar race. Whatever score you achieve in the trick mode dictates how much time handicap you receive in following race event, so its wise to pick a balanced ...