Q of the Week: Shaun White Snowboarding - No Feet?

I just watched some of the developer videos on the Shaun White Snowboarding game. The first one I saw started with the image below. What is up with the feet? Now I’m assuming he’s in some nice powder but this would never occur in real life unless the guy had been standing there for a long time in order for the weather to cover his board and feet. This just would not happen.

Now, I love snowboarding games and when I heard of a new game being developed for next gen systems, I had hopes that it would deliver true next gen graphics and physics. The game does look pretty good but to have this be one of the first views I saw, it turned me off.

The game still has a way to go so hopefully some of these issues will be cleaned up before launch this winter, 2008. I just don’t think this will be fixed as it looks like it was meant to look like this:

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