Stoked Rider featuring Tommy Brunner Demo

Extreme snowboarding is not a sport for everyone, given the amount of risk the riders expose themselves to every time they go down the slope. Beside the danger of hitting exposed rocks or trees, there is also the risk of an avalanche at any given time, which doesn’t leave you too many chances to survive, in case you are standing in its way.

Stoked Rider featuring Tommy Brunner is an arcade simulator that allows you to indulge your passion without having to put your life in danger, or if you cannot afford to spend money on trips around the world and expensive equipment. There is an entertainment component to the game as well, because it is also possible to perform stunts and impress an invisible crowd.

The gameplay itself is quite straightforward, yet somehow very difficult to manage. Most of the fault lies with the controls, because they are quite tricky to handle with the keyboard and the mouse, especially when it comes to steering. Using a controller may be the better option, but the rest of the technical aspects do not shine either, which is really a shame.

Plenty of well-known brands have lent their names to the game, which should provide the game with more authenticity. However, it doesn’t really matter what your rider wears, as long as you are having trouble playing the actual game. The stunts are also quite difficult to perform, because they require coordination and perfect synchronization in order to be successfully executed.

As far as the visual aspect is concerned, the game looks pretty nice when it comes to shaders and textures, but the physics and the animations are terrible most of the time. Bits of the rider wave and wobble at every little imperfection in the slope, and it is even more disastrous when he happens to fall. It’s quite the same, really, because the game uses PhysX to render the snow and the tracks you leave behind.

In the end, Stoked Rider featuring Tommy Brunner is not exactly the best snowboarding simulator you can get your hands on right now. However, in case you want to try something different and you are prepared to be disappointed, then this can serve your purposes just as well.