Ultimately, gamers who have already played the original Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip will experience a sense of déjà vu when playing Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage. After all, the controls, graphics and most of the sounds remain the same and, at first glance, the changes made to the game seem minimal. Give it some more play time, though, and you'll notice that most of those changes are improvements and make World Stage the better game to own. Snowboarding fans, both of the arcade and simulation variety, would do well to pick up this title.
"Ubisoft has seemed to have hit a mine of potential with the Shaun White branding. This new series of games started out with a multi-platform snowboarding game that sold over a million copies on the Wii alone. Clearly, the sales numbers have prompted the developers to release a sequel to this successful game, entitled 'Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage'. And plans are well under way to develop a skateboarding game based off the Olympian gold medalist. Now I personally thought the first game (SWS: Road Trip) was pretty fun, but I did have trouble really getting into it. How does the sequel compare?" -- Wiiloveit.com
CoffeewithGames shows the play-time data for Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage and says, "It took 289 days for Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage's play-time data to debut on the Wii's Nintendo Channel."
Included in with the debut data is the, "Approx. Number of Players Reporting Data, 'Total' Game-Play & Average Hours Played Reported, Sale Rank & Sale Price, and Review Score Averages".
Shaun White appeared on KROQ this morning...with a little bit of news to spill.
