Yushire, Nintendo's video and image capture systems since the N64 have sucked. They capture at low res jpg and poor quality mpeg for video. Add in compression for the Internet from sites like IGN and Nintendo games online will always look much worse than they are.

Well, to be honest, I was also looking at the person using the balance board for control than just the video. Yes, I've seen better graphics, but snowboarding on the board is going to be much cooler than pushing two analog sticks around, period.

I hope TP's start concentrating on getting good visuals on the Wii, but I'm even more interested that they got the controls right. The controls are the Wii's seeling point, not the graphics. Although these graphics do look like Ubi is more than a bit lazy, maybe they put the time and resources in to control, which could make this a win in the long run.

This doesn't look like a N64 game (unlike Crusin') but it does look like it was developed by a team with inexperienced texture artists and bad modelers ...

Back in the day you would see good modders of games like Unreal Tournament produce models with 450 polygons and 96x96 pixel textures which were similar in appearance to what an average modder could produce using a 600 polygon model and a 160x160 pixel texture; and a bad modder would require 800 polygons and a 256x256 pixel texture.

Quite possibly this game could look so badly because it wasn't really designed to run on the Wii. I don't really know the history of this game but I wouldn't be surprised if it was the port of an average PS2 game, or if they downgraded an XBox 360/PS3 game and the visuals demonstrate how inefficient they game ends up being.

Am I the only one that noticed that Cruis'n USA and Cruis'n are too different games. Cruis'n USA was a launch title for the N64 and look great back then. Speaking of N64, 1080 snowboarding on N64 looked better than this.

 Correct on all accounts.