X Games Pro Boarder

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ESPN X Games Pro Boarder
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Developer(s) Radical Entertainment
Publisher(s)
Platform(s) PlayStation, Microsoft Windows
ReleasePlayStation
  • NA: November 10, 1998 [1]
  • EU: 1998
Windows
  • NA: November 23, 1998 [2]
  • EU: 1998
Genre(s) Snowboarding
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

ESPN X-Games Pro Boarder, also known as X Games Pro Boarder, is a video game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for the PlayStation and Windows in 1998.

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Reception

The game received average reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. [3] [4] GameSpot gave the PlayStation version a favorable review, over a month before its U.S. release date. [13] However, Next Generation said of the same console version, "In the end, its style-over-substance, mediocre gameplay is what you'll remember the most." [16] In Japan, where the same console version was ported and published by ESPN Digital Games, also under the name X-Games Pro Boarder (X GAMES プロボーダー, Ekkusu Gēmuzu Puro Bōdā), on March 11, 1999, Famitsu gave it a score of 28 out of 40. [9] GamePro said that the PlayStation version "enters the PlayStation snowboarding foray to carve a piece out of Cool Boarders ' mountain. But X Games Pro Boarder doesn't have the kick to knock CB off the slopes." [20] [lower-alpha 3]

Notes

  1. ↑ in Electronic Gaming Monthly 's review of the PlayStation version, one critic gave it 5.5/10, two others gave it each a score of 5/10, and another gave it 6.5/10.
  2. ↑ In GameFan 's viewpoint of the PlayStation version, one critic gave it 86, and the other 84.
  3. ↑ GamePro gave the PlayStation version all four 3.5/5 scores for graphics, sound, control, and fun factor.

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