Bumping into other racers (at the risk of crashing or spinning off-course) also earns you adrenaline. Tricks earn you "adrenaline," akin to Burnout's boost, and when your meter is full, you can use your adrenaline to gain a significant speed increase. Keeping the buttons held prolongs the trick, and on long jumps you can even pull off two separate tricks. Also, during jumps, you have to take care to make sure your snowmobile is correctly aligned to land.Īnother unique aspect to this game is that when you jump, you can pull off tricks by simultaneously pressing a bumper button and holding one of eight directions on the left joystick. Leaning forward is particularly important, especially when handling tight curves, and it can be quite a bear to master. Most importantly, you can lean forward and back by pushing the left joystick up and down, respectively leaning forward puts the weight on your steering skis, and leaning back helps you accelerate. The basics of the control setup will be familiar to anyone who's played a racing game lately (accelerate with the right trigger, brake with the left trigger, and steer with the left joystick), but quite a few nuances come into play when driving a snowmobile rather than a car. However, there are plenty of flaws to bear in mind before plunking down your $30. It's a very fun game with a sense of speed and a discount price, and those who've grown sick of the major arcade racers (Burnout, Need for Speed, Pure, etc.) would be wise to give it a shot. That's basically what Ski-Doo Snowmobile Challenge does for snow racing. It's hard to beat a good arcade racer as they feature all the high-speed adrenaline of a racing sim with none of the cumbersome realism.