Polaris SnoCross

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Polaris SnoCross
Polaris SnoCross for N64, Front Cover.jpg
North American Nintendo 64 cover art
Developer(s) Vicarious Visions
Publisher(s) Vatical Entertainment
Designer(s) Bryan Shutt
Programmer(s) David Brickhill
Quentin
Froemke
Artist(s) Brian Keffer
Carl Scheel
Steve Derrick
Platform(s) Game Boy Color, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Microsoft Windows
ReleaseGame Boy Color
  • NA: February 2000
  • EU: November 16, 2001
PlayStation
  • NA: August 29, 2000
Nintendo 64
  • NA: December 27, 2000
Windows
  • EU: November 15, 2001
  • NA: December 19, 2001
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Polaris SnoCross is a snocross snowmobile racing game for Game Boy Color, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and later Microsoft Windows. It was released in 2000. French publisher Wanadoo Edition released a budget version of the game for the PC in 2001, called SnowCross.

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Reception

The PlayStation version received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [4]

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