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Snowboarding TnT (iPhone)

A few weeks ago I recieved a code to try out Snowboarding TnT (Tilt N' Twist) for the iPhone.  The game was originally released earlier this year, but has been re-released with the addition of a new course as well as some new music and control enhancements.

The objective of the game is to make it down the course as quickly as possible, all while performing tricks after hitting the jumps that are arranged throughout the course.  You also try to grab stars that give you a score modifier to give you more points for completing one of the 30 tricks that you can accomplish during the game.

As it's name would suggest, the game is controlled via Tilt sensor control.  For each of the courses, you have the choice of either a male or a female snowboarder, and you steer them down the course by tilting the system to the left or to the right.  The controls themselves are fairly solid, but one of the issues that I ran into with the game was the collision detection with the obstacles.  It wouldn't happen every time, but every once in a while you would be going down the course and appear to miss a tree, stump, or rock, but it would register a collision and drop your score modifier and slow you down.

The courses themselves become more challenging as you progress through them, but the unfortunate thing is that there are only a few of them.  Within about 15 or 20 minutes, you have all of the courses completed and the game becomes a score challenge.  There really isn't anything wrong with that, but since there isn't an online score system, so you're stuck with trying to set and beat your own scores in the game.

Graphically, the game isn't going to win any awards, but with the iPhone platform you know about what you can get for a 3D engine.

Currently the game is priced at 99 cents due to it's re-release and for that price, I think it has a decent value for an iPhone game.

Even with the limitations that I mentioned, I still enjoyed the game, even if only for a little while.  The pursuit of improving your times down each course and improving your scores on each course may be exactly what some people are looking for and if you're looking for a fun diversion in the holiday season, this might be just for you.