Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder

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Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder
Developer(s)	Activision
Publisher(s)	Activision 02
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance
Release date	December 13, 2001
Genre(s)	sports
Mode(s)	1 or 2 player
Rating(s)	ESRB: E (Everyone)

Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder is a PlayStation 2 game with a similar feel to the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series, and is developed by Activision 02. The game feaures many famous snowboarders including Shaun Palmer and Shaun White.

1 Levels/Courses
2 Soundtrack
3 Critical Reception
4 Releases

[edit] Levels/Courses

Pro Snowboader features Many Real life locations. These are:

Donner Ski Ranch, CA
Aspen, CO
Kirkwood Mountain Resort, CA
Heavenly Ski Resort, CA-NV border
Snowbird ski resort, Ut
Squaw Valley Ski Resort, CA
Mount Hood Meadows, OR
Gotcha Glacier, a planned indoor ski/snowboard facility in California. Plans to build the facility were canceled.

[edit] Soundtrack

Spineshank - "New Disease"
Static-X - "This Is Not"
Alien Ant Farm - "Courage"
Orange 9mm - "When You Lie"
Papa Roach - "Dead Cell"
Shootyz Groove - "Mad For It"
Insolence - "Natural High"
Stereomud - "Don't Be Afraid"
Sunny Levine - "Love On The Rocks"
Sunny Levine - "Shaun Palmers Snowboard Collection"
Sunny Levine - "Snowboard Tournament"
Powerman 5000 - "Bombshell"
Godhead - "Inside You"
Pantera - "Mouth for War"
Supersuckers - "The Evil Powers of Rock 'n' Roll"

[edit] Critical Reception

While some critics praised it for being very much like the Tony Hawk Pro Skater Games (GameSpot stated they successfully "[brought the style and gameplay] of Tony Hawk games to the mountain,") whereas others criticized it for being difficult to control in comparison to EA Sports' SSX. Its overall review is mediocre, receiving an average rating of 64% from MetaCritic.

[edit] Releases

This game was released on PlayStation 2 & Game Boy Advance. However, a demo of this game was released on a demo disc from Sony, as well as exists in the options menu of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.