Freeride Earth 3

• Popularity:

  #2 in Snow (out of 13 products)

• License:

  Free

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  4.0 stars (out of 1154 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  735,256

• Requirements:

  Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, Direct3D card, DirectX Drivers

• Limitations:

  No limitations

• Date Added:

  May 03, 2000

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version Freeride Earth 2.0 Freeride Earth 1.0

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Publisher's description of Freeride Earth

From GraphitX:

An atomic war has come at last. A very long night is here to stay, and it surely will be followed by an eternal winter. The entire civilization is either wiped out or under duress. But for the mad boarder, it's the coolest thing that could ever happen. In Freeride Earth, you don't have anything to do except enjoy snowboarding across an entire planet. So hop on your board and enjoy practicing tricks.

This little charmer is just what players need to wind down from a long hard day. The randomly generated 3D mountains are as beautiful and soothing as the sound of cutting fresh powder. However, we think the real charm of this snowboarding sim is that it's not made by a major developer and it's wide open for updates and gameplay add-ons.

Editor's review of Freeride Earth

• 4.0 stars

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For a totally free, space-efficient program, this snowboarding game gives you a pretty killer ride. Freeride Earth requires no real installation process to speak of; you simply extract all the game files to a folder, then click the EXE to begin playing. Since this program only provides one mountain on which to shred, your goal is simply to achieve the highest score possible by using the space bar and the arrow keys to pull off jumps, spins, and tricks. You start with a very short amount of time on the clock, so you also must take care to collect the bright blue tokens that will extend your ride. The minimal help files don't explain how many points a certain trick scores, so you'll probably want to experiment. The 3D graphics may not knock hard-core gamers out cold, but most other folks will find them more than suitable. Our biggest gripe about Freeride Earth is its total lack of features; you can't even turn off the sound effects or choose to play with your mouse. Besides that, we can't complain much about this free game and think it makes a surprisingly addictive time killer.

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• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1154 votes
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• 3 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Freeride Earth 3

  "Not bad freeware 3d snowboarding"

  by Ranito on July 25, 2006

  Pros: +Graphics look pretty good for freeware (like first 3d accelerated games)

  +Pretty funny for some while

  +Freeware

  Cons: -Irrealistic physics

  -No motivation (only one track, one boarder)

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• 2 stars

  4 out of 5 people found this review helpful

  Version: Freeride Earth 3

  "You get what you pay for..."

  by Mrsone on February 28, 2005

  Pros: Hey, it's free.

  Cons: This game could have been pretty decent, but it lacks so many features that it isn't worth it. For example, there are no customization features, no tutorials for figuring out how to use the controls, no options, nothing. The "contest mode" is too short to figure out how to do anything in it. The controls themselves are pretty lean. Also, there are no directions of any sort to tell you what to do at all. The developers of this game really could have done so much better than they did making this program worth while.

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• 1 stars

  Version: Freeride Earth 3

  "crap"

  by Ojey on April 19, 2008

  Pros: nothing

  Cons: everything

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• 1 stars

  Version: Freeride Earth 3

  "junk"

  by captianstripes on April 26, 2007

  Pros: none

  Cons: anouncer sounds stupid, controls too sensetive, graphics are terible, and game plays too quickly and just plain boring.

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• 1 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: Freeride Earth 3

  "no."

  Summary: this game is nothing like snowboarding. graphics are terrible, the time counts down from 50 to 0 in less than 10 seconds, only one gameplay mode, and above all, what is up with the propeller on the back?

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