I find it unlikely that a similar engine will be used on a snowboarding game, as snowboarding games are always downhill racing games, and a realistic physics engine might defeat the racing factor. It's fun to do tricks and rank up points, but I figure that you'd be falling down a lot more with this kind of engine, and thus it wouldn't make sense to use it in a game that's focused on winning races.

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