Shaun White Snowboarding for Mac

Ubisoft brings you the freedom of the mountains with Shaun White Snowboarding. Developed in close collaboration with Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White, Shaun White Snowboarding lets you create your own experience in the game.

Whether you choose to compete and do tricks in the terrain park, or carve new paths in the back country, the choice is yours.

Freedom to Ride on Four Different Mountains - Gamers have their choice of four mountains - Alaska, Park City, Europe (Alps), and Japan - each offering a different kind of terrain and feel, as well as landscapes and views.

Alaska, for example, has a lot of peak boarding with features such as avalanches and ice chasms. Park City, the famed resort in Utah, features buildings and layouts from the actual resort.

The mountains are huge, with incredible graphics that allow you to see dynamic elements up to 20 miles away. As you ski, objects and locations far away in the distance, such as the base of the mountain, become larger and larger, and the background has the feel of a real, live environment rather than a static image.

Within each mountain, there are peak, back country, and park (resort) areas that provide a variety of gameplay. Just as you would expect, there are plenty of trails on each mountain, with each slope rated from green circle (easy) to double black diamond (extremely difficult).

Race, Do Tricks, Carve New Paths - Shaun White Snowboarding lets you do anything you want at a mountain: you can speed down the fastest slopes, get massive air and do tricks on the half-pipe, and even throw snowballs at other boarders.

Shaun White Snowboarding gives you unprecedented control of the snowboarder, with separate controls for tricks, balance, and grip, allowing you to perform a ton of different tricks on the ground, in the air, and on rails. The game was designed with realistic physics, so each trick looks and performs just as you'd expect it to see it in real life.

While you go down a mountain, you'll see various challenges scattered along the way, such as grinding on rails and specific tricks on the half-pipe. When you get to the bottom, you can take off your board and hop on a chair or a helicopter to get back to the top and find a new trail.

In the singleplayer mode, Shaun White serves as your mentor as you complete different challenges and competitions until you become good enough to put your skills up against Shaun White himself.