X Games Pro Boarder

ESPN X-Games Pro Boarder, also known as X Games Pro Boarder, is a 1998 snowboarding video game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Electronic Arts for the PlayStation and Windows.

ESPN X Games Pro Boarder
Developer(s)	Radical Entertainment
Publisher(s)	Electronic Arts EU: Sony Computer Entertainment (PS1)
Platform(s)	PlayStation, Microsoft Windows
Release	PlayStation NA: November 10, 1998[1] EU: 1998 Windows NA: November 23, 1998[2] EU: 1998
Genre(s)	Snowboarding
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
	PC	PS
GameRankings	70%[3]	70%[4]

Review scores

Publication	Score
	PC	PS
CNET Gamecenter	7/10[5]	4/10[6]
Electronic Gaming Monthly	N/A	5.5/10[7][a]
EP Daily	6/10[8]	N/A
Famitsu	N/A	28/40[9]
Game Informer	N/A	6.5/10[10]
GameFan	N/A	85%[11][b]
GameRevolution	N/A	D+[12]
GameSpot	N/A	8.7/10[13]
IGN	7.8/10[14]	7/10[15]
Next Generation	N/A	[16]
Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine	N/A	[17]
PC Accelerator	6/10[18]	N/A
PC Gamer (UK)	69%[19]	N/A

Reception

The game received average reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.^[3][4] GameSpot gave the PlayStation version a favorable review, over a month before its U.S. release date.^[13] However, Next Generation said of the same console version, "In the end, its style-over-substance, mediocre gameplay is what you'll remember the most."^[16] In Japan, where the same console version was ported and published by Electronic Arts Square, also under the name X-Games Pro Boarder (X GAMES プロボーダー, Ekkusu Gēmuzu Puro Bōdā), on March 11, 1999, Famitsu gave it a score of 28 out of 40.^[9] GamePro said that the PlayStation version "enters the PlayStation snowboarding foray to carve a piece out of Cool Boarders' mountain. But X Games Pro Boarder doesn't have the kick to knock CB off the slopes."^[20][c]

Notes

1. in Electronic Gaming Monthly's review of the PlayStation version, one critic gave it 5.5/10, two others gave it each a score of 5/10, and another gave it 6.5/10.
2. In GameFan's viewpoint of the PlayStation version, one critic gave it 86, and the other 84.
3. GamePro gave the PlayStation version all four 3.5/5 scores for graphics, sound, control, and fun factor.