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Title: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: NWR_pap64 on March 04, 2010, 10:35:27 AM

Shaun White trades his snowboard for a skateboard in his upcoming Wii game.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=22695

 Ubisoft has announced that they are working on a third Shaun White title for Wii. Unlike the first two titles, however, it will be a skateboarding game.    

Shaun White Skateboarding will be developed by Ubisoft Montreal, and is slated to be released this holiday. White expressed his enthusiasm in an interview with Los Angeles-based radio station KROQ.    

"I can't describe how excited I am about the skateboard game," said Shaun White. "We've been working on it for a while now and it's ready to melt minds."    

Thanks to NWR forumer BlackNMild2K1 for the news tip!

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on March 04, 2010, 06:37:31 PM

o_O

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: BeautifulShy on March 04, 2010, 06:45:50 PM

This isn't really surprising. When he isn't snowboarding he skateboards. So in the Summer he does it. I wonder how it will be controlled.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 04, 2010, 06:49:11 PM

Shaun White = the NEW Tony Hawk.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: NWR_pap64 on March 04, 2010, 06:58:48 PM

One thing's for sure... It will be better than Tony Hawk Ride.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: Jonnyboy117 on March 04, 2010, 08:49:27 PM

Quote from: Maxi on March 04, 2010, 06:45:50 PM

So in the Summer he does it.

For guys like Shaun White, it's "never summer". I don't think it's possible to snowboard all year around, but close to it. There is at least one resort in Chile (south of equator = snow in June - September) and probably several more in the Southern Hemisphere that I don't know about.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: BeautifulShy on March 04, 2010, 11:25:20 PM

Well of course you could find spots around to snowboard year round. I was just saying that the tradional time frame for summer he skateboards.

Do we have any snowboarders or skateboarders on the forum?

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 04, 2010, 11:27:09 PM

I used to Snowboard.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: RABicle on March 04, 2010, 11:29:58 PM

There's snow in Argentina, Australia and New Zealand too.

Regardless, Shaun does skate in Summer. He skates enough to have won the Summer X Games vert.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 04, 2010, 11:54:11 PM

(http://i49.tinypic.com/5bxxlc.jpg)

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: NWR_Neal on March 05, 2010, 01:21:29 AM

I assume it'll use the Balance Board. I just hope it is better than Skate It.

If it does that, then we will talk about if it's better than Tony Hawk Ride.

Man, outside of Skate games on 360/PS3, skateboarding games have sucked lately.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: KDR_11k on March 05, 2010, 07:33:12 AM

Looks to me like Ubisoft saw an opening when TH Ride failed.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: TJ Spyke on March 05, 2010, 11:00:32 AM

That may be part of the reason, but I think part of it was also because his snowboarding games have been big sellers for Ubisoft.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: Jonnyboy117 on March 05, 2010, 11:52:57 AM

I'm a skier (fourth season) but would like to try snowboarding sometime. I've tried a little skateboarding, but I'm terrible at it.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: Ian Sane on March 05, 2010, 02:21:47 PM

As a kid I asked for a skateboard for Christmas and was so thrilled when my grandparents got it for me.  I went outside and stood on it and "Oh ****!  I have no balance!  I can't stay on this thing for more than three seconds!"  And that was the end of my skateboarding.  I still appreciated the gift, though.

A Shaun White skateboarding game to me seems like making a Michael Jordon baseball game.  That's probably being a little mean to Shaun. ;)  Checking out the greatest source of all info, Wikipedia, Shaun does have some noteriety as a skateboarder, so there you go.  I guess he's the Bo Jackson of extreme sports.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: vudu on March 05, 2010, 02:42:03 PM

Quote from: Ian Sane on March 05, 2010, 02:21:47 PM

I guess he's the Bo Jackson of extreme sports.

More like the Michael Phelps of riding a board.  Phelps didn't win 8 gold medals--he won the same gold medal 8 times.  ;D

Shawn White stands good on a board--whether that board's on snow, tiny wheels or water it probably makes no difference.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 05, 2010, 02:44:47 PM

I await Shaun White Waterboarding from Ubisoft.


wait.... I hope that game doesn't have Sam Fisher in it, because waterboarding is an illegal practice in the US.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: ShyGuy on March 05, 2010, 02:49:05 PM

Aren't Shaun White and Tony Hawk friends? Taking over Tony's territory. Is this the first rumblings of an east coast/west coast SKATER BEEF?

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 05, 2010, 02:58:09 PM

WESTSIDE!!!  \/\/

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: Luigi Dude on March 05, 2010, 03:29:34 PM

Quote from: ShyGuy² on March 05, 2010, 02:49:05 PM

Aren't Shaun White and Tony Hawk friends? Taking over Tony's territory. Is this the first rumblings of an east coast/west coast SKATER BEEF?

Considering the Tony Hawk series is pretty much died now, there's not much territory to fight over.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: KDR_11k on March 06, 2010, 03:57:09 AM

Looks like Mr. Hawk didn't get the memo though.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: TJ Spyke on March 06, 2010, 12:47:22 PM

Quote from: BlackNMild2k1 on March 05, 2010, 02:44:47 PM

I await Shaun White Waterboarding from Ubisoft.


wait.... I hope that game doesn't have Sam Fisher in it, because waterboarding is an illegal practice in the US.

Not to mention that there is no sport called waterboarding (you may be thinking of wakeboarding).

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: ShyGuy on March 06, 2010, 01:21:48 PM

(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k302/shyguy70/12surferxlarge1.jpg)

I see water, I see board. Water boarding.

Also, Hand Egg.

(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k302/shyguy70/hand-egg.jpg)

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 06, 2010, 02:03:16 PM

Quote from: TJ Spyke on March 06, 2010, 12:47:22 PM

Quote from: BlackNMild2k1 on March 05, 2010, 02:44:47 PM

I await Shaun White Waterboarding from Ubisoft.


wait.... I hope that game doesn't have Sam Fisher in it, because waterboarding is an illegal practice in the US.

Not to mention that there is no sport called waterboarding (you may be thinking of wakeboarding).

Sam Fisher Splinter Cell + Waterboarding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding) = joke..... I thought "illegal practice in the US" would give it away.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: KDR_11k on March 07, 2010, 04:12:56 AM

Handegg? I thought it was called Mortal Kombat!

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: Stratos on March 07, 2010, 05:22:39 AM

Quote from: ShyGuy² on March 06, 2010, 01:21:48 PM

(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k302/shyguy70/12surferxlarge1.jpg)

I see water, I see board. Water boarding.

Also, Hand Egg.

(http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k302/shyguy70/hand-egg.jpg)

Looks more like Elbow Egg to me. He holds the egg in the corner of his elbow.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: TJ Spyke on March 07, 2010, 09:47:42 AM

Is Shyguy trying to call surfing "waterboarding"?

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: ShyGuy on March 07, 2010, 02:35:16 PM

I'm just Saying Ubisoft needs to make a game called "Shaun White Waterboarding"

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: vudu on March 08, 2010, 03:50:31 PM

I'm starting to think TJ Spyke is a spambot with extremely sophisticated AI.

He almost seems like an actual person, but when he gets tripped up on "Gameboy" vs. "Game Boy" (and "water-boarding" vs. "wake boarding") or refusing to recognize Sony's motion controller as "Arc" you can see the programming start to fall apart.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: TJ Spyke on March 08, 2010, 04:09:10 PM

Haha, very funny vudu.  ::)

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: Ian Sane on March 08, 2010, 07:42:28 PM

Rumour has it "football" was originally a term for games "played on foot".  Some people liked to played a kicking variation while others liked a carrying variation.  Both soccer and rugby were called "football".

Makes you wonder what sort of world people lived in where games played on foot were enough of a minority to require a specific term.  What sports aren't played on foot?  Polo, auto racing, ice hockey, wheelchair sports.  That's all I can think of.  Isn't cricket played "on foot"?  Didn't it already exist when football was invented?

Though the best argument to make is simple.  American football gets to be "football" because America runs the world and Europe doesn't.  I'm not even an American but I know that's how it works.  So kick/dive-ball is "soccer" because America says it is.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: ShyGuy on March 09, 2010, 01:40:15 AM

Listen to this Candian. He knows what's up. Shaun White just went up there and took a bunch of their gold medals. That's why he gets to make a skateboarding game.

Title: Re: Ubisoft Developing Shaun White Skateboarding Game
Post by: KDR_11k on March 09, 2010, 04:50:06 PM

Back in the feudal era sports played by the high society were usually on horseback. I can't imagine that cricket is older than football, at least in their respective proto forms. Cricket is a fairly advanced game with tons of rules and tools, football just requires a ball and some posts to delimit the goal. It probably didn't have an offside rule back in the day but since it's so easy to grab a ball and say "try to kick it into this area" proto football should've been around for as long as balls are.

Quote from: Ian Sane on March 08, 2010, 07:42:28 PM

Though the best argument to make is simple.  American football gets to be "football" because America runs the world and Europe doesn't.

No but we leave the Americans in their belief that "football" means their sport to anybody but them (well, okay, it's also used in foreign languages where the local term for association football differs, e.g. in German association football is called "Fußball" while American rugby goes by the name "Football" and nobody watches it or knows the rules). Just as we don't give a crap about their stone age measurement units we don't give a crap about their "football".