Boarder Zone | 
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| From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $19.95
You Save: $10.04 (33%)
New (3) Used (5) from $4.99
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 16261
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 8 x 2
Model: 2024001
UPC: 020295466312
EAN: 0020295466312
ASIN: B00003OPDZ
Release Date: March 6, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: for Windows 95/98/ME/XP. CD's original and new, sealed in a sleeve w/electronic manuals, no box & manual, media mail in 7-17 business days.
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| Features:
| • | Huge hazardous slopes with cliffs and crevasses | | • | Combo grabs into 720 s and 1080 s: Killer Tricks, Grabs, Spins & Rotations | | • | Grind on anything, day or night | | • | Stunning variable effects, from terrain to weather | | • | Races, Time Trials, Big Air & Pipe: 5 Modes, 4 Events |
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Product Description
8-player Network Mode: Back it up when you trash-talk your friends Real Y2K snowboards GameSpot Boarder Zone is fun and entertaining, but only as a diversion. The single-player game lacks too many of the options and features you expect to see in a snowboarding game. Boarder Zone has many good qualities, but you'll find yourself going through all the game has to offer too quickly. It's more enjoyable as an arcade game to play with your friends, since the single-player mode is too dull otherwise. Boarder Zone's best features are its detailed graphics and its fluid 3D engine. When you go down a slope, your board leaves an imprint in the snow according to the powder level. When you turn, the board sprays snow as it cuts into the slope. When you fall, your hands and body leave print trails. There is also a nice replay option, and the chase camera always finds the best angles at which to follow your maneuvers. The lighting is realistic and provides atmosphere and a good sense of movement. With the exception of handplants, Boarder Zone lets you perform all widely known snowboarding maneuvers. Boarder Zone has no tutorial, but the game uses such a simple interface that performing advanced tricks like the 720 rotation, the roast beef, the melanchollie, or the stalefish is easy. You also get to choose from four brand-name boards, each designed to accommodate different types of snowboarding. Boarder Zone features four types of competitions: race, time, big air, and pipe. Once you've made your selection, you choose from four types of weather and three types of courses: village, alpine, or forest. You can also choose to compete in a championship or exhibition, but unfortunately you're limited to the same courses in each. Nevertheless, the slopes are well designed and have many jumps and great scenery. Not only can you speed past the rocks, trees, and canyons that you'd expect, but you can also go through villages on ice-covered streets, weave between lampposts, and more
Amazon.com Product Description
Snap on your bindings! Nail tricks with incredible real moves. Free-ride through wild snow in multiple events. Rip dangerous, breathtaking slopes without boundaries.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Boarder zone review August 22, 2002
Josh Walsh (Keene, NH United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This game is one of the great underapreciated games of the past few years. It is not flawless, The Halfpipe is poorly modeled and the limited selection of music gets annoying very very quickly. That being said there are many more redeeming features than condemning ones. The Method of performing tricks is brilliant as well as the physics which are some of the best i have ever seen in any game period. The levels are huge and diverse and each one can be replayed thousands of times and still remain fresh and new. This game is Vvery very good and as it is older it is quite reasonably priced. A must for anyone with even a passing interest in snowboarding.
Boarder zone is IN DA ZONE August 11, 2002
Evan Williams (CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Boarder Zone is a very cool game. It is very reallistic, with the levels, animation and boards. There are three types of ways to board: time race, BIG air, and half-pipe. There is also a practice level, which ,I think, is the best one in the game. I didn't give it 5 stars because it can be kind of boring after playing it a while.
Boarder Zone missing some key points March 17, 2001
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hi! I just got boarder zone today and it is really fun! But it's missing some key things a snowboarding game should have. For example, most snowboarding games have some kind of half pipe, but this game does not have that. Another thing is that it does not have many optional courses to choose from, and it only has 2 modes, trick attack and racing. My opinion is that you should only get this game if you are a snowboarding game fan. Other wise, you should probaly get a diffrent game because this game will get boring really fast if you aren't a huge fan of snowboarding! But for a game boy game, this game passes out every other snowboarding game on the market!
Boarder Zone missing some key points March 17, 2001
John Haynes (CT, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Hi! I just got boarder zone today and it is really fun! But it's missing some key things a snowboarding game should have. For example, most snowboarding games have some kind of half pipe, but this game does not have that. Another thing is that it does not have many optional courses to choose from, and it only has 2 modes, trick attack and racing. My opinion is that you should only get this game if you are a snowboarding game fan. Other wise, you should probaly get a diffrent game because this game will get boring really fast if you aren't a huge fan of snowboarding! But for a game boy game, this game passes out every other snowboarding game on the market!
 Fun, yet lack of variety August 18, 2000
Badmrfrosty20 (Seattle)
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
The graphics in this game are stellar, dude! But that's all that's good in this half-baked game,dude. C dude, cuz when U start the game, U R treated with a TV- style introduction showing people fall in snow that takes about 10 minutes 2 load on a top-of-the-line computer,dude! Then, U R sent 2 the main menu, which consists of a bunch of options, dude! And when U play it, U get a chance 2 snowboard poorly, and it ain't your fault, because the games controls R mind-boggling and confusing,man! The manual does not help at all 2 help U understand this snowy mess off a PC game. So, dude, if your looking 4 a good snowboarding game, go buy a N64 and 1080. That's probably the only good snowboard game out there, man .
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