Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray

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Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray
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Developer(s) Shaba Games
Small Rockets (GBA)
Beenox (PC)
Publisher(s)
Platform(s) Game Boy Advance, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Mobile phones
ReleaseGame Boy Advance
  • EU: April 18, 2003
  • NA: November 10, 2003
PlayStation 2, Xbox
  • NA: June 10, 2003
  • EU: June 13, 2003
Mobile
August 4, 2003
Windows, Macintosh
  • NA: December 22, 2003
  • EU: March 17, 2004 (PC)
  • EU: June 6, 2004 (Mac)
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray is an extreme sports video game developed by Shaba Games, Small Rockets and Beenox, and published by Activision under the Activision O2 label and Aspyr for Game Boy Advance, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox and mobile phones in 2003. It features wakeboarder Shaun Murray.

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Reception

The game received "favorable" reviews on all platforms except the Game Boy Advance version, which received "average" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [1] [2] [3] [4] Nintendo Power gave the Game Boy Advance version a mixed review, over two months before its release Stateside. [24] In Japan, where the Xbox version was ported for release on December 25, 2003, Famitsu gave it a score of one six, one five, and two sixes for a total of 23 out of 40. [7]

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