Not the best but not the worst!
*1 whole mountain with 3 peaks. Its possible to ride down the whole mountain taking about 20 mins in real time
*Super extreme action. You can pull some crazy BS moves (eg 2000 degree indee grab , mellon, roast beef to nose grind to etc etc)
*Lots of clothes, boards & stats to buy from wining races/events etc
*New 'manual' move, like Tony hawks, so basically you could do 1 whole combo trick down the entire mountain
*realistic, smooth animations
*'Tricky moves' are pretty crazy
*Lots of alternative routs
*Races are tones of fun
Cons:
*A bit to extreme for my liking. while some might like it this way, i prefer the realism of say, 1080 on n64 which i consider the best snowboaring game ever made.
*A bit to fast, but that playing into the above comment
*Not enough grinding
*No Wall rides. I know this is small, but i constantly find it would be useful
*To easy to beef up your character on stats early on.
*Stat increases seam to have little visual effect IMO
*'Freestyle mode' just isn’t that hard. Once you get used to pulling of BS combos, its easy to rake in the points.
Conclusion:
This game tends to lean towards the racing element more than the tricks, which is good because ive normally played snowboarding games for their tricks & its good to see another aspect of it. Not to say that the tricks aren’t good, they are, but i found the racing more of a thrill.
This game will hold you attention for a long time, there plenty of things to spend your cash on like stats cloths & boards.
Its not the best snowboarding game ive ever played, i find Amped & 1080 much better, but its still up top non the less