Mar/090
Shaun White Snowboarding for the Wii balance board
Shaun White on the cover of Rolling Stone
If you haven't yet bought yourself a Wii and got the balance board for Wii fit, then you should immediately do so, of course.
But if you have a balance board, you'll be wondering what the best game is to play on it. Obviously the Wii fit game itself is second to none; engaging, but a tiny bit serious to make it much fun.
The solution is Shaun White's Snowboarding. Firstly it's easy to learn the basic board controls. Using your feet to ollie and change your balance feels very natural and adding tweaks and tricks with the controller in your hand is an easy progression.
As is usual for the genre you have to get to a fair standard in order to unlock most of the more fun stuff, but this can all be done within the first few hours of game play. There is a co-operative mode for party play and dinner parties.
In short, there's hours of game play for the 50 quid cover price, and that game play is satisfyingly reliant on skillful balancing on the wii balance board. To really unlock the full potential of this game it probably helps to be 12 years old, but even us 33 year old geezers can bust a double back flip or two without putting our real backs out.
