Whiteout (video game)

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Whiteout
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Developer(s) Vicarious Visions
Publisher(s) Konami
Platform(s) PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, Xbox
ReleasePlayStation 2
  • NA: November 26, 2002 [1]
  • EU: October 10, 2003
Windows, Xbox
  • NA: December 10, 2002 [2]
Genre(s) Racing
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Whiteout is a snowmobile racing video game published by Konami for PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, and Xbox in 2002.

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Development

The game originally started development as an ESPN tie-in video game under its then-licensing agreement, as ESPN Winter X Games Snocross, [3] but following the loss of the ESPN license, [4] the game was retooled as Whiteout.

Reception

The PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [5] [6]

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