It’s not every day the PC gets an extreme sports game, and it’s even less routine that said game is a free MMO. Anyway, that’s precisely what Project Powder is. The game will be available as part of the Outspark Free MMO Portal, and it’s actually looking like a lot of fun. Needless to say, Project Powder is one of those fantasy snowboarding type games, only with some multiplayer aspects to allow you to socialise and race against all the other folk in the game. A niche of a niche, clearly, but it might just be enjoyable. Take a look at the footage below – are they snowboarding in the jungle?
Those girls throw snowballs like… girls.
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Someone’s made SSX the MMO, complete with draw-in and slight frame-rate drops. Want.
Holy crap! This looks surprisingly awesome. Looks like they tossed in a little Mario-Kart style items in there, which is just like the best snowboarding game ever; Snowboard Kids on the N64. Also want.
Snowboarding on grass…hmmm. Sand would be passable but not grass. I haven’t played a snowboarding game since ‘Supreme Snowboarding’ so this will be interesting.
That chick in the middle of the screenshot , looks like she peed herself!
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Ha ha!
Dissapointing lack of crippling ragdoll on the crashes; a ‘trials’ approach to crashes could have been fun.
Quick question, and this may highlight my ignorance of popular dance music, but was that a Faithless song on that trailer, and if so – which one?
forget “peed chick”, that guy is holding head trophy in his hand ;]
So, right, I’m confused. How do these free MMOs, like, make money? That thing looks like it was quite a long way from free to make.
I think the word you’re looking for is “advertising” parm!
That and micro-transactions, which is a buzzword that means “sell you useless shit for small change”.
I read the words “MMO Portal” and got all excited about a persistent-world Aperture Science Enrichment Centre for a moment.
This looks surprisingly interesting! At least they’re trying something very different. I mean, essentially, it’s going to be a social networking site with flash graphics and some cool games to play with friends, but it looks great. Did I miss the release date, or has that not been announced yet? I’ll be keeping an eye on this.
Mario Kart with snowboards and some MMO bits. Technically not so exciting, but it does look nice! Except for that “snowflake beam of death” thing.
I thought ‘project powder’ was something you did if you sneezed whilst snorting cocaine…
That would be one of the cash shop items.
I got SSX Blur on Wii and I find it very hard…
I wonder how this will handle?…
@Jim Rossignol: forgive me for speaking my mind:P but that screenshot is hilarious – pee stains and head-trophy!
The guys are all wearing typical urbban style clothes.
…and then the two girls look like their fashion sense came out of a Kingdom Hearts MMO.
This game looks like a lot of fun! Snowboarding + MMO = Win.
By the way, they’re currently accepting registrations for the closed beta at http://www.playprojectpowder.com
I just signed up!
arcade snow/skateboarding games have to go away, its insulting to my 15 years skate/snowboarding. why is it so hard to make a “realistic” game, skate was easily the closest, but the game still punished you if you didn’t play it like tony hawk.
@born2expire: how is a “unrealistic” game insulting to the fact that you snow board for real? Of course, the fact that you find a VIDEO GAME insulting to your lifestyle is just silly…
honestly though, if i wanted realistic snowboarding i’d go for real. When i play a video game i want it to be fun… Many a fun night were spent on SSX:tricky on the PS2. The thought of a free MMO of the same kind is awesome.
this is ssx tricky isnt it? that game came out in 2001…
arcade snow/skateboarding games have to go away, its insulting to my 15 years skate/snowboarding.
Just like Mario Strikers is insulting to my 18 years playing football, Sega Rally is insulting to my 3 years driving in a rainy country and Half Life 2 is insulting to my entire childhood of pointing sticks at people and going ‘pyow pyow’?
I signed up for the closed beta too, downloaded the program this afternoon, havn’t run it yet but it is installed, still a few days until the closed beta period anyway
hey, im in the closed beta and its uber fun so far i have not played anything like this game and any new game that comes out to try and be like it will only be some cheap immitation. yes its free and yes they have a cash shop to make money but you can get alot of the stuff you need to play w/out the cashshop and the shop just makes the game more fun so if you wall want its a fun game and i encourage all of you to try it when it comes out and is released to the public
This game goes open beta on August 7th source: Project Powder Pro , can’t wait!
Just got done playing, this game is awesome!
Anyone want to start a Project Powder Crew?
Hehehe, look at the second person from the left in the screenshot. They’re holding the severed head of a defeated rival!
Now that’s xxxxtreme!
Well its fantasy .. You wouldn’t be seeing people throwing their boards up and spinning around and catching then puting back their binds on in real life LOL. So I guess its no wonder they’re in the jungle?
Project Powder is beta for almost one year and has only minor updates since the first release. I switched to “Snowbound Online” -> same game, more features, more updates and a bigger community.