Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: James Shaughnessy Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: What games do you own and what do you intent to buy Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 23:24:32 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3617F5A0.7F15@manc.u-net.com> References: <1dfwwun.143hzmbnhyy0wN@a1-88-135.a1.nl> <3610296d.75525628@news.scea.sony.com> <3610CB72.1305@manc.u-net.com> <36177134.57CB@manc.u-net.com> <1dge3hs.1er1ix21ltzdrcN@a1-88-113.a1.nl> Reply-To: james@manc.u-net.com NNTP-Posting-Host: manc.u-net.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) DEnnis Brinkhuis wrote: > I was rather disapointed with 1080. The board vanishes in the > mountain at some points. It all looked to .... slick Er DEn, that's where the board is getting buried in deep "powder" snow.. it's quite normal "off piste" where the virgin snow has not been packed down. Real snowboarders will just LOVE it for these nice touches. The sound effects are totally realistic too, as well as the board- physics which is what makes it really stunning. Such a shame though you can't move around a valley freely, choosing chairlifts etc. with lots of annoyingly brilliant 4-year-olds darting around in your way. Or if it had a secret "Ski-doo" racing mode (like the one in Tomb Raider II). Aah, if only I was part of the dev team.. Only ever having one opponent is what lets it down, and it needs more courses too perhaps. I played it for ages at ECTS but got "piste" off (ugh sorry..) as I kept falling over - didn't realise Z was the "bend-zee-knees" button for landing. Oh well, had to give it back today. I thought Coolboarders 2 was okay, but nothing like 1080 for total realism. BTW I would've thought it feeling 'slick' was a plus point! Jim -- ----------------------------------------- James Shaughnessy james@manc.u-net.com http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~shaughnj -----------------------------------------