Mobygames (306)

Shattered Union

 

 Shattered Union is a turn-based strategy game, set in 2014 in the United States against a background story of a second American civil war. The player can control any of seven different factions, each of which has at least one unique unit and its own set of sidebar powers:

• California Commonwealth
• Pacifica
• The Republic of Texas
• Great Plains Federation
• The Confederacy
• New England Alliance
• The European Union Occupation
• Russia

These factions wage warfare in different territories; the more territories are controlled, the more income a faction receives. When attacking such a territory, the player selects which of his units should be deployed. The battlefield is represented as a hex grid, though the graphics are full 3D. The objective of the battle is either to destroy all the enemy's units or capture enough objective towns to control the battlefield.

Apart from the campaign, the game provides both a single- and a multiplayer skirmish mode, allowing one-on-one battles.

Shaun Palmer Pro Snowboarder

 

 Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder is a snowboarding game that resembles Tony Hawk in gameplay style where player's can pick from ten different professional snowboarders such as the game's namesake, Shaun Palmer, including Shaun White, Tara Dakides, Ross Powers, Tommy Czeschin, Leslee Olson, Jimmy Halopoff, Ingemar Backman, Drew Neilson and Markus Hurme and eight real-life locations such as Aspen or Mt. Hood.

There is a Freeride mode and a Career mode where the player performs complex tricks to gather points, but also must perform certain tasks for each stage in order to advance to further levels such as performing certain tricks or jumping off certain ramps and picking up various items scattered throughout the stage. There are also multiplayer modes present that lets friends go head-to-head either by racing to the end of the stage first or out perform each other. It also features music from Papa Roach, Static-X and Alien Ant Farm.

Shaun White Skateboarding

 

 Shaun White Skateboarding is a sports game, similar to Tony Hawk games. Shaun White is guest star, but he isn't main playable character.

The game takes place in the grey city of New Harmony, controlled by the Ministry, with characteristics similar to Orwell's "1984". Only the player, who can make tricks on skateboards can change this city. The game has many moves that can be performed. It also has some elements of "magic" - the player can create special structures with his mind. Beside this, Shaun White Skateboarding is "normal", skateboarding game - the player makes use of city structures to do tricks on dizzying heights, alleys, half-pipes, bowls, and extended rails for long grinds...

The game world is quasi-open - the player can freely ride on skateboards (or walk on legs) in areas, but new districts must be unlocked first. When performing tricks in areas the people will become inspired and the environments will become more colourful.

The game supports multiplayer.

Shaun White Snowboarding 

 

 Shaun White Snowboarding gives the player, as the title suggests, a snowboard and sends him off to four ski run locations around the world (Europe, Alaska, Japan and a fictitious location called Park City) under the watchful eye of professional snowboarder Shaun White himself as well as other professionals, moderators, pilots and such. But before the player can go on the slope, he has to create his character by choosing not only from different body looks but also from different clothes and snowboards.

During the course of the game the player earns money by completing the challenges which can in return be invested in more stylized clothes and additional types of snowboards. Each of the boards has six stats like balance or speed and not all of them are the best possible option for every given situation. While in a race speed is an important factor, a board with a higher rating in rotation allows for better stunts.

The game puts the player in an open world with him free to roam around the slope as he pleases. Several lifts and even a helicopter bring him to different starting locations but if he wants, he can also walk and discover hidden areas by doing so. By doing tricks, with controls using mainly the analog sticks similar to Skate, the player earns respect points. And on the track are, besides many obstacles to perform tricks on, challenges like the Jibfest, in which only tricks on rails and boxes count or Freestyle in which every trick counts. Others include the Death Race, in which the player needs to get to the goal before everyone else but as the name suggests, everything is allowed including ramming opponents and throwing snowballs to get them off-balance. There are also some challenges like King of the Hill that can only be done with at least one other human player joining in.

The multiplayer mode is basically an extension of the single player experience. Everything that is available in single player, can also be done with other players online or over LAN. The other players are also just dropped into the open world with the freedom to just do what they want on the server.