Initial release date 21 December 2000 Publisher UEP Systems | Release date(s) JP: December 21, 2000 Developer UEP Systems Genre Snowboarding video game | |
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Cool Boarders: Code Alien is a snowboarding video game developed and published by UEP Systems exclusively for the PlayStation 2 and is the only Cool Boarders title to be released exclusively in Japan.
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Gameplay
Cool Boarders: Code Alien contains five play modes including extreme, trick, trick master, license mode, and a mixed mode called snowboarding combined. In the extreme, trick, and trick master modes, players earn points either by performing tricks off of obstacles or by linking tricks together to create combinations. The trick master mode serves acts as a tutorial in which players are sent down an endlessly repeating ski slope while being prompted to perform increasingly difficult tricks. License mode requires players to navigate a series of obstacles in order to obtain a series of licenses. The snowboarding combined mode combines the game's downhill racing and trick tournament elements. Both the extreme and trick modes can be played with multiple players.
Players control their snowboarder by tapping or holding the X button to jump or charge, holding the D-pad in one direction to set up a trick, and utilizing the PlayStation controllers' analog functions by exerting light or hard pressure on the buttons, consequently yielding different tricks. Onscreen messages alert the player as to the degree of the spin or flip they are setting up.
The game features Yaggi and Irin, two recurring characters from the previous Cool Boarders 2 as well as board choices from Volcom, Arnette, and Burton.
Reception
GameSpot wrote in a January 2001 review of the game that its production was "top-notch," citing that the game possessed quirky characters and a comic sensibility.