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With Boarder Zone, developed by Housemarque and published by Infogrames, an attempt has been made to craft a realistic and immersive snowboarding game that truly captures the essence of this extreme sport. Previously available on the Game Boy Color, Boarder Zone for the PC offers licensed snowboards: Original Sin's Twister, Salomon's D-Frank and FRS, Rossignol's Pro and Stylus, Nidecker's Babs and Summit, Asnowboard's Feline, and Axel Pauporte and Arbor's D62 KOA. Characters featured in Boarder Zone wear clothing from Nidecker, Bonfire, and Rossignol Winter 1999-2000 collections. The game also includes officially licensed Arnette sunglasses and JanSport backpacks. Boarder Zone offers nine twisting tracks. Alpine's steep slopes and huge snow formations, masking its icy caves and deadly sharp rocks. Forest tracks that take players through narrow paths and alongside railroad tracks and icy riverbeds. Village tracks that put the player in a ski resort village where they can carve their own path through the streets and rooftops of an alpine village. As in the real sport, you can execute killer tricks, grabs, spins, rotations and combos. Three skill levels offer a challenge to the novice or skilled. The game modes: Arcade, where you choose an event and compete in a single race; Championship to start your career as a novice snowboarder and win races to eventually become master of the slopes; One-Event Exhibition to enter the Pipe or Big Air competition and become the champion of these events; Practice to test your skills before entering the actual events; and Multi-Player to enter a multi-player race you can back up with trash-talk your friends. The events: Race, to hit the slopes against five other skilled boarders -- place first and win!; Time Attack places you alone on the slopes, with no one to disturb you in your quest for the fastest time down the hill; Big Air allows you to show off in front of the crowd as you are judged for each jump -- after three jumps, your score will be totaled and compared to the competition; and Pipe challenges you to do as many tricks as possible down the pipe -- the more difficult the trick, the better for you if you succeed! Boarder Zone also offers a variety of riding conditions: normal snow, powder snow, ice, and rocky areas. You can race in day, sunset, cloudy, and nighttime conditions, as well as in the middle of snowfall or fog. And the game's simulated physics, weather, and lighting effects do have a large impact on gameplay. Also, using a LAN for multi-player gameplay, up to eight players can compete against each other. If you think that you are up to the challenge, it's time to hit the slopes!