This game is just plain fun if it is your cup of Tea.
Snowmobile Challenge
Publisher: Valcon Games
Developer: Coldwood Interactive
Platform: Xbox 360
Rated: Everyone
Released: April 1, 2009
Visuals:
The visuals for Ski-Doo: Snowmobile Challenge are not bad for a game that has been out for about 5 years now their are very little frame rate issues, but their are some noticeable bugs but overall the detail all the locations are great and this game does take you through all the top places in the snowmobile circuit and the detail to all these places are really done well from the trees, snow on the ground even the look of the sky looks great and is very impressive, some of the detail to the snowmobile's do not look life like some of them look pretty bad that they really look fake if those are the right words to choose.
So the overall of point of the visuals for this game is that they are pretty good to look at despite the few bugs that you might experience on some the tracks, the detail of the snow effect are nicely done, most of the real world tracks are like the real thing but dated. But for a game that is from 2009 it does hold up well with some of the new extreme type of games that have come out in the last few years and the visuals for this game are basically good and nice and easy on the eyes.
Audio:
The audio for Ski-Doo: Snowmobile Challenge his pretty good from all the sounds of the snowmobiles to the music it is all great and probably the best feature in this fun game. The music is basically from what I can tell from a handful of indie rock and punk rock bands with some great and catchy songs and others with stick a pencil in my hear annoying songs that might force to mute you t.v set ro something I know I did a couple of times but still the music is pretty bad ass and helps with bringing the game to life helping you with enjoying it and finding the fun.
Now the sound effects in the game were great and the sounds of the snowmobiles sounded pretty good it has been a while since I have been on a snowmobile but in the game they do sound pretty good and most of them did sound kind of life like, but in general the sound F/X's for the game are nice to hear. So in the point is for the audio in this game is that the music is great and the sound F/X are good but decent to enjoy the sounds of the snowmobile and you the player should like it.
Gameplay:
The gameplay for Ski-Doo: Snowmobile Challenge is pretty fun to play and it is considered a arcade snowmobile racer and stunt game and you will find your self playing the single player career mode where you travel the globe and go to such places to race and extreme stunt shows and the locals that you will go to are from Russia, Norway, Sweden, U.S.A and Canada. as you play through this game's career mode you will earn money to upgrade your snowmobile and you will unlock other snowmobiles about 17 which add up to with the 3 you get to choose from at the start of your career and everytime you win a race you unlock a new machine for basically the next track you unlock.
This game as some fun appeal and should keep you busy for about 20-25 hours and that includes getting all the achievements and most of them are pretty easy to get and some are tough but fun to get and you can get all of the achievements 1000 GS in this game in the single player. So game is fun and for a racer the game is not all that time consuming and you can get all the Gamerscore for pretty it pretty fast with some of them being a little hard to get, but still obtainable. So the this game is just plain fun to play while it lasted.
Multiplayer:
Now for the on-line I'm guessing people played this when it first came out and now have forgot about it, So basically no one is playing this game at all on-line now at all and it is kind of a shame this was fun with the single player and would have been nice to see if it was fun on-line as well but what can you do their is absolutely no one on-line.
Overall:
So the overall for Ski-Doo: Snowmobile Challenge is that the visuals are dated but still decent and good enough to still stand up to some of the extreme games that are out now and the visuals nice and easy on the eyes with it pretty good detail to some of the environments, the audio is also the strongest point for this game with a pretty good and decent sound track and the pretty decent sound effects of of all the snowmobiles and the gameplay is fun with a pretty lengthy career mode that will last you about 20-25 hours might be a little less than that depending how long it takes you to get all the achievements for this game as most of them are all obtainable in play through. So in short you can find this game used for around $15 dollars and maybe $20 or so new I think amazon has it for about $50 dollars but I don't think it is worth that much, but $15-$20 is definitely is worth it for that price tag and this game is extremely hard to find. So if you are in to these game this one might be for you if not then pass on it, this game is fun and worth playing or at least checking out.
6.5 out of 10