Designed to be the definitive armchair-based snowboarding experience, this Konami game is a lavish-looking mix of game styles, with players offered choices of straight competitive races and challenges or - for the first time in a snowboarding game - a series of missions. These are designed to put the player's accumulated skills and mastered moves to use within a series of objective-based stages, adding an additional layer of depth to Evolution Snowboarding's challenging gameplay. The game's new mission play ups the fast-paced nature of snowboarding, with a series of exotic locations acting as backgrounds, as the player uses their flips and stunts to attain a series of items or objectives. Chases, running battles and manoeuvring through unlikely areas such as Chinatown all combine to create a welcome addition to the snowboarding genre, with Evolution Snowboarding's stunning aesthetics bringing the varied locations to life. For more conventional snowboarding fans, the game's competition element is also feature-packed. 10 real riders - including 2002 Winter Olympics silver medallist Danny Klass - have been faithfully recreated in the game, adding their signature moves and expertise to enhance the game's realistic interpretation of pelting down the slopes. Evolution Snowboarding continues this level of detail by also offering the best boarders the chance to upgrade their kit and boards from the very best ranges the sport has to offer. As players shred up the slopes and gain recognition and prize money for their endeavours, the cash can be exchanged for top-of-the-line boards and gear, making the tricks and stunts needed for the bigger prizes even easier to effect.
