Mattel's Championship Surfer falls into this latter category, as it attempts to integrate the intuitive trick-performing system of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater with the sport of surfing. While this may seem like a viable idea, in the end, Championship Surfer doesn't pull it off well enough.
Visually, Championship Surfer is fairly good, though the water itself looks a little unrealistic. There are no reflections and no transparency effects, so the ocean looks like one giant blue texture.
However, the wave effects are convincing. You'll see mist spraying out as the tube of the wave crashes down, and you can actually see the water drawn into the wave. Unfortunately, the developers at Krome Studios didn't put as much effort into the 3D surfers. The eight selectable characters are represented by just one color-swapped character.
Even the one female surfer, Rochelle Ballard, looks the same as all the male surfers in the game but with a short wetsuit and different hair color.
However, secondary objects floating in the water - including mines, crates, swimmers, and photographers - are surprisingly detailed and immediately identifiable so you don't run into them while cutting up the wave. But rain, lightning, and other weather effects are so subtle that you'll hardly even notice them during gameplay. Championship Surfer has seven modes of play, but none offer any real incentive to keep you playing the game past the first few beaches.
You can just imagine it playing in the background of a rubbish '60's Hannah-Barbara cartoon, with cardboard cut-out kids having a beach party and dancing. The usual selection of game modes - head-to-head, stunt mode, championship, arcade - are introduced by a shabby interface and never quite capture the imagination. The learning curve is quite steep and involves falling off your board as you try to stand on it for the first couple of hours.
Once you start learning the tricks it doesn't really get any more exciting. There's no feeling of exhilaration - so important in extreme sport simulations - to the point that it might as well be a rope-skipping sim.
The below-par graphics don't help either. The developers should know what they're doing since they're Australian, but perhaps they spent all day cruising waves, smoking joints and eating Tim Tams instead of coming up with a good game.
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