Not what I expected at all

User Rating: 4.5 | Shaun White Snowboarding X360
So I saw the commercials, right?
And like any sucker, I though "Wow! That looks great!" and I get the game, hoping for a great run.
WRONG.
Let me start off by saying, that if you thought this game would be fun to mess around on with a friend (via split-screen) then you're wrong. Because that is impossible. The commercials focus nearly entirely on multiplayer, which is unavailable unless you have Xbox LIVE. And I have Xbox LIVE. The multiplayer even managed to be abysmal at best on LIVE, since all you can do is play games together and see their character.....
Single player couldn't even be pulled off right. You have several open worlds to go to, each with minigames in the area to start. Nearly all of them require XBox LIVE to play in.
The game's story is terrible. It lacks any true structure.
Probably this game's biggest problem is it's repetivitey. The main story goes in this format:
-Meet this guy.
-Find the tokens scattered throughout the world.
-Get a new ability.
-Repeat.
No joke. That's EXACTLY how it goes.
The controls are clumsy and hard to use and nearly impossible to master.
The open worlds aren't even big. Riding from top to bottom of the map will take only about three minutes (at the most). So if you were at least hoping for that, you're dead wrong.
Again, with the commercials lying. In the commercials, they talk about players "finding new spots" referring to an area that is slightly hidden for those players to know about. There aren't any at all that I've found, and I've scavenged each map over and over again.
Voice acting is terrible.
For a sports game (if you call a snowboarding game a sports game and not a simulator) the physics engine is terrible. Here's the engine: Gravity. The End. Not even realistic gravity. You could fall from 40,000 feet and land on your head and your character stumbles into some sort of a roll-around and starts to slide down the ground.
There are SOME good things....
-Graphics are decent
-Great music
-Two of the maps are somewhat fun to ride in

Overall, this game is worth about two dollars, because that's all you'll get worth out of it.
Just one solid moral learned from this review: THIS GAME SUCKS! IF YOU WANT SNOWBOARDING, I RECOMMEND 1080 AVALANCHE ON THE GAMECUBE!