Shaun White Snowboarding for the Wii had good visuals, awesome use of the Wii Remote’s motion sensing capabilities, and the best implemented Wii Balance Board support seen yet on the console.  If you liked it, get ready for more: Ubisoft announced Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage today exclusively for the Nintendo Wii:

Players will hit the slopes with Shaun White and his crew, but this time the stakes are higher as you pursue the world’s top competitions from a half-pipe in the middle of New York’s Time Square to the most prestigious competitions of France, Canada and Japan.

Jump on through for a full Press Release.

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As promised, here is my review of Shaun White Snowboarding for Crispy Gamer.

A game that’ll make you proud to own a Wii Balance Board… Despite its limited content, Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip excels where the other versions fail — in recreating the thrill and speed of being a superstar snowboarder. Put simply, Road Trip is the better version because it’s more fun to play.

Read on for the full skinny. Fun game.

Been playing Shaun White on Wii this morning, and I’m happy to report that the Balance Board controls are satisfying. Fun game. It seems that turning and breaking, which are both done with rear-side feet, get mixed up everynow and then, but I haven’t played with sensativity, so that could improve. Nevertheless, I’m stoked about the game so far — it has slick presentation, a hip soundtrack, and promising foot controls. More to come.

The curious-sounding Kombo has the scoop:

During Ubidays 2008, Ubisoft revealed that its upcoming snowboarder, Shaun White Snowboarding, will be coming to Nintendo Wii. More exciting, the publisher revealed that the game will support Nintendo’s Wii Balance Board. Although members of the press were not allowed to play the game at the event, an Ubisoft representative was on hand to demo the setup. The game is played with both the Balance Board and Wii-mote, using the latter to control tricks.

Foot controllers, here we come?