1080: Avalanche

Video Game
2003
E

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The player can choose their character to go snowboarding as there's training mode, half pipe course and the racing course as the player snowboards down each perilous course to get to the fin... Read allThe player can choose their character to go snowboarding as there's training mode, half pipe course and the racing course as the player snowboards down each perilous course to get to the finish line in this Nintendo game.The player can choose their character to go snowboarding as there's training mode, half pipe course and the racing course as the player snowboards down each perilous course to get to the finish line in this Nintendo game.

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7.0/10

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Trivia
Cauterize have a hidden video for the hit song Choke in the game. The video was shot in the bands home town at the college pub they all attended school at!

Quotes
Finger Eleven: [singing] Something changing, The secret is building, Almost over and somehow seems a beginning, Losing focus, It must be boring, Looking forward never turns out the wrong way. Speaking without her.
Finger Eleven: Conversations alone, Complicate us together on our own, Conversations alone, So alone.
Finger Eleven: No one calling, But someone is bound to reply, No one out there, But someone hears every word, I know we're playing the same game, Easing the conscience by. Speaking without words.
Finger Eleven: Conversations alone, Complicate us together on our own, Conversations alone, Keep us from being alone. Alone, oh alone, alone.
Finger Eleven: The road was taken, The path leads on, Til a new one's left to clear, The signal's given, The show turned on still emotion cut too near. The road was taken, The path led on, The signal's given, The show turned on, Still receiving and still believing the time that you take isn't gone.
Finger Eleven: Conversations alone, Complicate us together on our own, Conversations alone. Keep us from being together on our own, together on our own, together on our own, together on our own. Together.

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Featured in Icons: Miyamoto (2002)

Soundtracks
Choke
(theme)
by Cauterize

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7/10

Downhill Fast ?

By a quirk I decided to play "1080 Avalanche" the other day, a game I've probably not played since around its release back in 2003. I only played it for around 90 minutes or so, but I thought it worth writing my impressions down.

Graphically, it's not too bad. The sprites aren't as clear as they would be today, but the movement works well, and the draw distance is pretty good too. Musically though, the game has really aged badly. The soundtrack is mostly the sort of sub "Fall Out Boy" style rock that was popular at the time, but locks the game in the turn of the Millennium period.

Gameplay wise though, it was fun to play - controls were responsive and once I'd got the basics down I was able to make pretty solid progress, until I hit a wall towards the end of the second set of races. I was then struck by the fact that that was pretty much all the game was going to show me. There were other modes, such as the time trial, but again that was only replaying courses that I'd already completed - I felt, with my spoiled 2019 brain, that the game should have had something else that I could have done - another more full mode of play, or set of courses that I could have attempted.

I was also struck that around this time there were so many extreme sports games and it's largely a genre that has died out now - even the once mighty Tony Hawks series hasn't had a successful game in years. I did feel that a new game, done right, in the 1080 series is probably due, even just a remastered version of this and the N64 original would be welcome.

A fun blast for an hour or so, but I can't see me going back to it for another decade.