Snowboarding is all the rage as winter slowly creeps up on us. So it’s no surprise that Fish Labs have thrown their beanie cap onto the piste with Snowboard Hero. Having played some prior snowboarding titles on the mobile I wasn’t sure what to expect.

Many previous titles in the genre have lacked a certain sense of speed. No matter how fast your character is supposed to be going you never really feel the difference, or more precisely sense it. However, Snowboard Hero in my opinion did a very good job in this respect.

But snowboarding isn’t just about speed now is it? It’s about wicked, high-flying tricks and awesome combos. Fish Labs have addressed this in Snowboard Hero by giving you multiple kinds of tasks to accomplish and then combining them into even more difficult runs.

The basic types of runs include speedrun, freestyle, gate race and race against a computer character. The game then begins to combine these into other runs in which you must earn medals, for example a freestyle speedrun where you must score a certain amount of points but finish the course in a certain amount of time and the freestyle gate race where you must score trick points, hit the gates and beat the computer opponent. It’s a lot of options and it keeps the game from getting stale and redundant. There are six different pistes as well, so you’re not just memorizing the turns and jumps of only one