Heavy Shreddin'

"Put this game in the shredder."

I remember when I asked my mom to rent me a game so she went to the our local video store and rented me this. Judging by the ''cool'' cover (ok, that was a pretty lame snow reference, but still) I thought this game would match up to Ski or Die.

I wanted to shred this game up with a chainsaw.

Graphics: 3/10
The only decent graphic you get is the snowboarder dude on the title screen. When you actually play the game, you're some stick figure guy on a black line which I assume is your snowboard. Ski or die put ALOT more effort into the graphics and at least used more of the NES' capabilities. The mountain you snowboard on is just plain white all over 3/4th of the screen. It seems like someone just used the paint bucket option in MS paint to design the graphics.

Sound/Music: 2/10
The music sounds like it should have been used in something like Mission: Impossible or some other spy game, especially the BGM on the ''licensed by nintendo'' screen. To me, the music seems like it's in a panic mode all the time. I think the composer of this game fell off his snowboard one too many times. Sound effects are barely existant since the only one I heard was the thumping sound when you trip over a tree or obstactle. I think the thumping sound makes up 90% of the game's BGM as well.

Control: 1/10
There are times when the controller will let you go down and up but most of the times you cannot. Sometimes pressing up and down when you CRUCIALLY need to will end up spinning your character for no apparent reason making it IMPOSSIBLE to avoid an obstacle. You do get a jump button too but you'll only be using it to jump over these small line things that are only 3 inches off the ground.

Gameplay: 1/10
I think this game should have given you a chainsaw to do some ''Heavy Shreddin''' on all the trees you're gonna end up crashing into while playing this vile and horrid game. Like I said before in the control section, you'll end up being able to avoid a few obstacles for about 5 minutes before the controls get all whack on you then you'll be spinning into trees until you see the deer laughing at you on the game over screen.

Overall (Not an average): 1/10
Shred this game in anyway possible using scissors, axes, chainsaws, a doberman's teeth, or with any sharp object possible.

Reviewer's Score: 1/10, Originally Posted: 12/22/02, Updated 12/22/02