Product description
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Race at thunderous speeds while carving through fresh
powder on a wide range of gut wrenching courses. Encounter razor
sharp turns, intimidating jumps, enormous moguls, treacherous ice
and countless obstacles! Pull off killer tricks like "Mistys,"
"Melancholys," "Methods," "Stiffys," and"Japan Air," plus
thousands of combos of flips, spins and grabs. All new fighting
allows you to punch your nent while racing. Lifelike boarders
carve through courses textured to perfection illustrating amazing
detail to rocks, bumps, ice, jumps, canyons and cliffs. The most
breathtaking ain views this side of the Rockies! Choose from
16 Burton and 6 Ride snowboards all individually designed with
their own specific performance and board graphics. Battle for the
win while racing against nents in the Downhill, Boardercross,
and Slalom events or go for huge air in the Half Pipe, Big Air
and Slope Style events.
From the Manufacturer
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Grab your board get your lift ticket and get ready to
shred some serious snow in Cool Boarders 3 for PlayStation. A
brand new 3D game engine gives you lifelike characters and
panoramic courses with real-time rendering for the most realistic
snowboarding experience. Take on 32 new beautifully designed
courses with razor sharp turns intimidating jumps challenging
moguls slippery ice and more. Hidden courses include an Avalanche
and Tree Run where flawless control is mandatory. Choose from 16
Burton 6 Ride and 1 Swatch snowboards that are individually
designed with their own specific ratings. The boards are created
with the same tendencies as the real boards like control
acceleration responsiveness and flexibility. Pull off the classic
moves like reverse 360s Front Side 540's Rodeo & Misty Flips
Board Slides Tailgrabs and Stalefish. Perform 35 tricks plus
thousands of different combinations of grabs spins and flips.
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Review
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Cool Boarders 3 is drastically different from its
predecessors. And unfortunately for fans of the series, it's not
the good kind of different. Sure, it looks a whole lot better and
has a ton of tracks and events to try, but the bottom line is
that it just isn't much fun to play.
One reason it fails is the game's new control scheme. Even after
hours of trying to get used to the control, you'll still be
wishing it was set up like Cool Boarders 2. The control doesn't
have that precise, in-control feeling when you're executing
tricks, although when using the Dual Shock, the analog stick is
rather nice to use for basic boarding. The new jump meter is an
unnecessary pain and ends up forcing you to play extremely
mechanically. You have to press and hold the jump button down at
the right moment when you're approaching a jump so the indicator
is at the height of the meter when you release the button. While
it may not sound too menacing, once you give it a try you'll know
just how much of a pain it is.
Course quality is another factor that leads to the game's overall
lameness. Sure it has 34 tracks, but they're all mostly short and
narrow. The developers seem to try to compensate for this by
making events like the half pipe best out of three. The new
events like boardercross, slalom, and slope style are welcome
additions to the game.
In addition to the bad control and weak course design, you'll
miss the carefree feeling of happily boarding down the ain.
Instead, that's been replaced with Road -style punching on
the course. I'm usually all for fighting, but it's so out of
place and so poorly implemented that it might as well not even be
in the game.
The graphics are Cool Boarders 3's shining moment. The terrain,
snow, and trees all look really good. The animation of the
different boarders as they elegantly carve down the ainside,
pulling off moves and grabs, is all very fluid. Even the new
interface and art look fairly impressive. While the sound effect
for the board scraping over patches of ice in the snow is an
exceptionally nice effect, the sound and music overall are fair.
Unfortunately, Cool Boarders 3 isn't the sequel we had all hoped
for - changing developers for this third game really hurt the
series a lot. --Ryan Mac Donald
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- ALL TIME CLASSIC.
- GREAT BOARDING GAME.
- GREAT FOR ALL AGES.
- ALL-TIME FAVORITE.
- HARD GAME TO FIND.