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All the tricks one could realistically expect are in there, and provide a mild diversion. It's during the racing that the game comes into its own, though, ottering high speed action against five other competitors in singleplayer mode, or up to seven over a network.

There's a real sense of being involved in a race, with opponents often barging into you, simultaneously offering an array of insults. Snowboarding is a genuinely exhilarating sport, and there is no greater compliment than to say that Supreme Snowboarding captures some of that essence.

This is definitely one game that lives up to its name. Snowboarding indeed, you're probably thinking, while frantically flicking through the mag for news on the latest goblin extravaganza. Chances are, you're the kind of person who thinks sliding down a mountain on a piece of wood is largely the preserve of drug fiends with a limited vocabulary and experimental facial hair.

And you'd be absolutely right. However, as hobbies go, sitting in the dark living your life through the actions of a one-inch character on a monitor could also be construed as unorthodox, and is certainly neither cool nor awesome, to use the parlance of the snowboarding community. It's easy to dismiss snowboarding as the pastime of simpletons, until you actually try it. At which point you'll either flail about hopelessly like the weakling you are, or you'll get the hang of it and start to whoop like a child.

The rush of cold mountain air, the sensation of riding crisp white powder and the exhilaration of hurtling downhill at breakneck speeds all make for a genuinely awesome experience, even more fun than pretending to cast spells in a wizard game.

PC owners will soon have the chance to find out for themselves, thanks to Supreme Snowboarding, the first in a series of Extreme Sports titles from Infogrames. The game is being developed in Finland by Housemarque, the result of a merger between two developing houses, Terramarque and Bloodhouse.

Consequently, there's a mentality that suggests that this kind of game should be confined to consoles, and indeed both Dreamcast and Gameboy versions are pending. However, only the PC has the power to enable such a game to realise its full potential, and it would be a crying shame not to use it. The graphics in Supreme Snowboarding automatically adapt themselves to suit your PC, and on a high-end machine are truly tremendous.

A further advantage it has over its console counterparts is the eight-player network option. We've had the privilege of playing it, and it's a thing of grace and beauty. The nine tracks span Forest, Alpine and Village, and each is approximately two square miles, with multiple paths to select, making it a case of getting to the bottom of the mountain by any means necessary. Naturally, all manner of tricks are available, either during a race or on a specially made half-pipe. Supreme Snowboarding is shaping up to be a wonderful thing, and it's coming out this Winter.

So you'll soon be able to try the sport without the risk of freezing your knackers, snapping your wrists or bruising your coccyx. Browse games Game Portals. Supreme Snowboarding. Install Game. Click the "Install Game" button to initiate the file download and get compact download launcher.

How many crappy snowboard games do we have to put up with this year? Like all of them, this looks reasonably nice but suffers from A being slow, B being boring and C having over-simplified controls.

As you'd expect it's full of "attitude," which means you can expect a voice-over featuring a moron throwing in pathetic expressions like "tuna salad dude. Don't bother. Buy instead. Radical dude! Heavy-duty slammln' man! Way to lose it, loser! Er, sorry, but play Twisted Edge Snowboarding for too long and you too will find yourself slipping into the puffa jacket vernacular. Initially you get to choose from four different boarders and four different boards.

Each time you complete a stage in the competition mode another boarder and a new board becomes available. You have a rather limited choice of courses to begin with, as these are opened up by playing through the various modes. Twisted Edge offers just six competition tracks and one half-pipe. In Twisted Edge, although you play the same tracks again, they each get longer, and features on the tracks change. More alternative routes open up on each track, allowing you more choice as to which way you go.

In addition, more hazards are added as you get better at the game, such as the tunnel on one of the tracks which is fairly nondescript the first time that you play it, but has icicles dropping from the roof the second time around.

The very first thing that becomes apparent about Twisted Edge when you first turn it on though is that it's rather lethargic.

That is to say, it takes quite a while to get going. Despite the fact that the boarders start the course by dropping from parallel poles, they don't seem to pick up speed very fast. At first it almost seems like you're missing something - like you're using the wrong button for accelerate or something - but then you notice that the CPU players have the same problem.

This is because there is no speed control as such in Twisted Edge Snowboarding. If you crash on a fairly flat area of the course, it takes absolutely ages to get going again, and you can pretty much guarantee that any chance of getting a good position has been lost. The boarders can happily slam their boards against the walls and the barriers and - providing you're tilting your board a little at the time - don't crash.

However, this has almost been overdone because in some places it's possible to actually pass whole parts of your character's body -head or arms for example - right through a rock outcropping or metal barrier and keep going. It can be quite annoying when you're trying to take the lead in a downhill race only to have your boarder suddenly perform multiple mid-air backflips because you inadvertently touched a C button.

Two-player mode is well implemented and doesn't seem to suffer any slowdown, and the viewing distance is pretty good. Maybe the speed of the characters in Twisted Edge Snowboarding is really quite realistic. Maybe that's the speed that people really travel down mountains in real life. So what does Twisted Edge do? It adds more problems of its own! The boarders feel like robots, not people, and the painfully slow recovery from even the tiniest mishap quickly gets unbearable.

Midway's hitting the hill with Twisted Edge Snowboarding. As of press time, TES will contain seven tracks including a practice track and five competition modes.

You'll be able to race each track through three difficulty levels, with the course changing as you advance: The Expert course will contain jumps that were closed off in the Novice course, and so on. You'll select from nine boarders and seven rides, some of which are released as you complete certain events; and you'll pull off numerous tricks, including the incredible and the McTwist just to name a few.

The preview version we played was very early in development: It featured only one track and few tricks. As for the graphics, the characters looked smooth, and the environments featured cool touches, including downed alien spacecraft. Only time and another playable will tell if TES will bring enough twisted fun to cyber-shredders this winter.

With the recent success of snowboarding titles like Cool Boarders 3 and deg; Snowboarding, publishers are eagerly cashing in by releasing a blizzard of related games. Lacking glitz and name-brand recognition,Twisted Edge Extreme Snowboarding succeeds by focusing on simple gameplay and intuitive controls.

TEES offers players a selection of four unique characters and five styles of snowboards before thrusting them into a grueling four-man race. Challenging non-linear trails, including ice-encrusted caverns and rusty sewer pipes, will test both your skill and your reflexes.

Luckily,Twisted Edge features tight, responsive controls and an impressive array of tricks and stunts for players to perform: tail grabs, back flips, and the elusive "tuna salad. Graphically speaking, the game features large, colorfully animated boarders and stunning alpine vistas. Only occasional slowdown and excessive fog detract from the show.

The unintrusive sound effects--mostly limited to crunching snow and whistling wind--also fare well. A repetitive soundtrack and an obnoxious slow-to-respond announcer, however, will test your patience. Although deg; soil remains the definitive choice in video game snow-boarding.

TEES's simple, addictive gameplay and huge array of stunts make it a must-try for serious snowboarding fans and a solid choice for non-boarders. In the features lodge, Twisted Edge will include five play modes--Story, Competition, Stunt, Versus, and Practice--on six highly challenging tracks that will contain multiple paths and varying terrain like swinging suspension bridges, ice caves, falling trees, and an underground frozen river. With split-screen two-player action and a techno soundtrack, Twisted Edge looks to deliver some twisted fun on the slopes in March.

Just when you thought it was safe to assume no other snowboarding games were coming out, along comes Twisted Edge from Boss Games the company behind Top Gear Rally and publishing giant Midway. With Snowboarding already available, the obvious question is if Twisted Edge is better or at least as good as Nintendo's snowboarding extravaganza.

Unfortunately it's too early to give a definitive answer, but judging from the version Midway recently sent, the game is certainly headed in the right direction.

With the number of snowboarding games already out for all of the systems, it's easy to create a product which seems unoriginal. So far, this is the case with Twisted Edge, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Yes, Twisted Edge has all of these things--and Boss does them quite well.