1080° Avalanche
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| Developer(s) | NST |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Release date(s) |  November 28, 2003
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| Genre(s) | Racing/Extreme sports |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Everyone PEGI: 3+ |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo GameCube |
| Media | 1 × GameCube Optical Disc |
1080° Avalanche is a snowboarding game for the Nintendo GameCube. It was developed by Nintendo's in-house development studio, NST and published by Nintendo. Avalanche is a sequel to 1998's 1080° Snowboarding for the Nintendo 64. The game has a larger emphasis on racing than doing tricks, in contrast to other popular snowboarding games such as the SSX series. It can output in 480p and Dolby Pro Logic II and supports up to four players on one GameCube as well as LAN play with up to four GameCubes.
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[edit] Courses
[edit] Novice
- Enter the Cold: Ski School
- Easy Life: Tenderfoot Pass
- Angel Light: Frosty Shadows
[edit] Hard
- Easy Life: Powder Threat
- Angel Light: Tree Top Trauma
- Aspen Lake Dam: Grits N' Gravy
- Ride Easy Railways: Trestle Trouble
[edit] Expert
- Easy Life: Revolution Cliff
- Angel Light: Midnight City
- Aspen Lake Dam: Rotted Ridge
- Ride Easy Railways: Diesel Disaster
- Frozen Melee: Sick With It
[edit] Extreme
- Angel Light: Top Tree Mama
- Ride Easy Railways: Treble Tussle
- Easy Life: Evolution Riff
- Angel Light: Sid's Night Midi
- Ride Easy Railways: Dazzlin' Teaser
- Frozen Melee: Wit's Thicket
[edit] Characters
- Ricky Winterborn — Whistler, British Columbia, Canada 18 years-old (M) — Returns from 1080° Snowboarding
- Akari Hayami — Kobe, Hyogo, Japan 19 years-old (F) — Returns from 1080° Snowboarding
- Kemen Vazquez — Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile 21 years-old (M)
- Tara Hunter — Graton, Connecticut, USA 22 years-old (F)
- Rob Haywood — Seattle, Washington, USA 23 years-old (M) — Returns from 1080° Snowboarding
- Frosty Winterball — (M) Secret unlockable character
- Crystal Hayami — (F) Secret unlockable character
- Titanium Vazquez — (M) Secret unlockable character
- Mimi Le Moose — (F) Secret unlockable character
- Bones Haywood — (M) Secret unlockable character
[edit] Soundtrack
- Finger Eleven
- Good Times
- Other Light
- Conversations
- Cauterize
- Killing Me
- Choke
- Boysetsfire
- Handful of Redemption
- Rookie
- Seether
- Fine Again
- Socketzero
- Point A
- Friendly Fire
- Pretty Neat
- Slurp Slurp
- Yuiop
- Pear Spawn
- Drop
- Gated Baby
- Squidd
- A Matter of Time
- Little Drift
- Don't Stop Now
- Slip Away
- 7 8 9
- Just Like That
- At the Kiosk
- Ten Men
- Girl's Got a Gun
- B711
- Hoax
- Re Union
- GFDs
- Never Even Knew
- Kill Kill Kill
- Beat Me Beat Me
- Ocho
- JP
- Buttah
- Nachos!
- Osmo
- Get Off
- Freeze
- Thumpr
[edit] Gameplay modes
- Match Race
- Trick Attack
- Time Trial
- Gate Challenge
[edit] Development
Sometime in 1999, it was confirmed that a sequel to 1080° Snowboarding was coming to the Nintendo 64. Rather than Nintendo handling development of the game, they passed development on to second-party studio Left Field. When the game failed to materialise, it was confirmed that the game was no longer being produced for the N64, but for the Nintendo GameCube. Not long after this announcement, it was also confirmed that Left Field was revoking its status as a second-party studio so it could develop multi-format titles. Development of the game was handed to Nintendo's American development studio, Nintendo Software Technology Corporation (NST). They originally planned to call this game 1080°: White Storm, before finally renaming this game 1080°: Avalanche (it was later released in Japan with the "White Storm" subtitle). It is assumed that the game was completely rewritten by NST, but it's possible that some elements of Left Field's work remains.
[edit] Versions
1080°: Avalanche was released in two different versions, a common single disc, and a somewhat harder to find dual disc format. The second disc was not a game disc, but rather a mini-dvd, featuring half an hour of extreme snow sports footage, set to music from the game. This version was only available at Wal-Mart, and is indicated by a red sash on the front cover.
