Sunny Garcia Surfing

Ubi Soft?s Sunny Garcia Surfing carves its way to the PS2.

Krome Studios has retooled its Championship Surfer engine for a more realistic surfing experience in Sunny Garcia Surfing, a solid entry among the trick-based extreme sports games inspired by the Tony Hawk series.

The wave physics in Sunny Garcia are accurate, and though this generates a punishing learning curve, once you get used it, you?ll find that carving through perilous barrels and ripping through spuming crests feels natural. The game?s realism is accentuated by responsive, intuitive controls, and the smoothly animated surfers react realistically to your commands, while the wave models sport nicely rendered swells and crests. Besides the generic pop/punk soundtrack, the sound effects consist of little more than roaring waves and various grunts as your surfer wipes out, which happens often since it?s nearly impossible to detect obstacles until after you?ve already collided with them.

Although fairly fun, Sunny Garcia lacks true replay value since the action tends to feel repetitive, and the beaches begin to look the same. Be sure to rent before you buy.

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