Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Shaun White. With a self-branded videogame franchise and three Olympic gold and X-Games titles under his belt, he has once again teamed with Ubisoft to bring snowboarding to the masses. With its charming aesthetic and cheeky cast of characters, <a href="/do/gameOverview?cId=3171122" title="Shaun WhiteShaun White Snowboarding: World Stage provides an amusing snowboarding distraction for those who might not want to spend hours falling on the snow just to experience the thrill of flying through the air or careening down a mountainside.
Instead of watering down the experience of its current-gen brethren, Ubisoft created a completely different game when the first Shaun White Snowboarding games were released last winter. By utilizing the Wii’s strengths, Road Trip proved to be the best of the three versions; the jittery “lifelike” animations were replaced with bright and cartoony graphics, the finicky control scheme with a simple but effective combination of button presses and flicks of your wrist. Road Trip was simple to pick up and play and was instantly gratifying; gravity-defying spins and grabs were no further away than simple movements of the Wii Remote.