Games based on movies have a solid reputation of being mediocre. While Ubisoft's Surf's Up isn't exactly stellar, it looks more exciting than what you'd expect from a half-hearted title released only to escort its counterpart on the silver screen.

Here's a gameplay video of the surfing penguin busting a few cool moves. Everything looks shiny, the flashy effects are pretty cool, but it's far from the real experience. From what we see, it's more like skating on the same half pipe over and over than riding a wave. A little flip here and a spin there could amuse the casual gamer, but not someone looking for an actual game of the extreme sport.

Just check it out for yourself and tell us what you think.

 

France-based publishing giant Ubisoft has just announced that Surf's Up (for the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, NDS, PSP, PS2, GameCube, GBA and PC) has been shipped to stores today. The game, based on Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animations' upcoming animated film of the same title, will allow gamers to become surf legends just like Cody Maverick.

Surf's Up has been rated E10+ by the ESRB and should be available at a US$ 49.99 price tag for copies on the next-gen consoles, a US$ 39.99 price tag on the Sony PS2, PSP and GameCube, a US$ 29.99 for the DS and the Game Boy Advance, and a lowly US$ 19.99 for the PC.

Surf's Up will introduce gamers to the competitive sport of extreme surfing, packed with arcade goodness as only this game can. The game will also bring the player to various surf locales in the island of Pen Gu, where our penguin hero begins his adventure toward being a world-class surfer.

The game will be officially available on June 8, 2007 for North America, starting August 2007 for gamers in Europe (August 10, 2007 for the UK), and starting June 2007 for gamers in the Asia Pacific region (although Australia will get it on September 13, 2007).

We have here for you three identical videos for Ubisoft's cool surfing game, Surf's Up. Why bother putting up videos if they're all identical, you ask? Well that's because we'd like to show you how the game will look like in all three next-gen consoles.

Since we'd like to give you as much holistic reporting as we can, then it's just right for you to be able to check out how the movie-based game Surf's Up will be riding up the waves in your own chosen console, right? So be it the PlayStation 3 (PS3), the Xbox 360, or the Wii, there surely is one for everybody. Anyway, we're sure you might want to check out the gameplay as well as the game's set to paddle your way come May.

So what are you waiting for? Get those boards waxed and surf your way to your happy place with these videos. Enjoy!

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The Xbox 360 and Wii videos for Surf's Up are over at Full Article!

'Course we love surfers. They have this cool accent, a smooth swagger when they walk, and those very attractive - uhh, beaks. And feathers. And real live webbed feet for padding through blue ocean waters - not the sort of flippers that humans attach to their gawky feet to help them swim.

We're talking about the surfers of Ubisoft's Surf's Up, an upcoming game on the PC, Playstation 3, PSP, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS and Wii. It's based on a movie to be released by Columbia Pictures, a comedy based on a teenager, Cody Maverick, leaving his home in Shiverpool, Antartica to travel to Pen Gu Island to fulfill his dreams of becoming a pro surfer.

Along the way he meets interesting characters such as Chicken Joe, Reggie Belafonte, Mikey Abromowitz, Lani Aliikai, and Geek. And did we ever tell you that the characters are penguins and a chicken? The game comes on May 22 for all of the above-mentioned platforms, as well as for the PS2, Gamecube and the GBA.

Look at these first screen shots from the upcoming game.