Thursday, October 16, 2008

yay for more wii balance board games

It looks like Ubisoft is a big fan of the Wii Fit balance board! I previous mentioned their new Raving Rabbids game that will use the board, and now I'm getting psyched for Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip, which is coming out in November. I have always enjoyed snowboarding games back to Cool Boarders for the Playstation, so I may have to pick this one up. Early previews seem to say that while (like every Wii release) the graphics aren't quite as nice as the Xbox and PS3 versions but they are actually very nice for the Wii, so that's good. Looks like this game will let you use the board but also have a boardless option, which is nice since it also has two and four-player competitive modes. To do fancy jump tricks you have to use the Wii remote in addition to the board. The snowboarding in Wii Fit is pretty tough, much harder than the slalom skiing where you're facing forward, so it may add some cool challenge to this game, although it sounds like a lot of people might just end up using the Wii remote and nunchuk controls. Still cool, though!

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