Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray

Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray is an extreme sports video game developed by Shaba Games, Small Rockets and Beenox, and published by Activision under the Activision O2 label and Aspyr for Game Boy Advance, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox and mobile phones in 2003. It features wakeboarder Shaun Murray.

Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray
Developer(s)	Shaba Games Small Rockets (GBA) Beenox (PC)
Publisher(s)	WW: Activision O2 NA: Aspyr (GBA, PC) WW: JAMDAT Mobile (Mobile)
Platform(s)	Game Boy Advance, Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Mobile phones
Release	Game Boy Advance EU: April 18, 2003 NA: November 10, 2003 PlayStation 2, Xbox NA: June 10, 2003 EU: June 13, 2003 Mobile August 4, 2003 Windows, Macintosh NA: December 22, 2003 EU: March 17, 2004 (PC) EU: June 6, 2004 (Mac)
Genre(s)	Sports
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Reception

The game received "favorable" reviews on all platforms except the Game Boy Advance version, which received "average" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.^[1][2][3][4] Nintendo Power gave the Game Boy Advance version a mixed review, over two months before its release Stateside.^[5] In Japan, where the Xbox version was ported for release on December 25, 2003, Famitsu gave it a score of one six, one five, and two sixes for a total of 23 out of 40.^[6]

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
	GBA	PC	PS2	Xbox
Metacritic	67/100[1]	85/100[2]	83/100[3]	80/100[4]

Review scores

Publication	Score
	GBA	PC	PS2	Xbox
Edge	N/A	N/A	5/10[7]	5/10[7]
Electronic Gaming Monthly	N/A	N/A	8.17/10[8]	N/A
Famitsu	N/A	N/A	N/A	23/40[6]
Game Informer	N/A	N/A	8.25/10[9]	8.5/10[10]
GamePro	N/A	N/A	[11]	[12]
GameRevolution	N/A	N/A	B[13]	B[13]
GameSpot	N/A	N/A	7.3/10[14]	7.3/10[14]
GameSpy	[15]	N/A	[16]	[17]
GameZone	5.9/10[18]	8.5/10[19]	8.9/10[20]	8.9/10[21]
IGN	7/10[22]	N/A	8.6/10[23]	8.4/10[24]
Nintendo Power	3/5[5]	N/A	N/A	N/A
Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine	N/A	N/A	[25]	N/A
Official Xbox Magazine (US)	N/A	N/A	N/A	9/10[26]
The Cincinnati Enquirer	N/A	N/A	[27]	[27]
The Village Voice	N/A	N/A	N/A	8/10[28]

Reception

References

1. "Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray for Game Boy Advance Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
2. "Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray for PC Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
3. "Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray for PlayStation 2 Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
4. "Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray for Xbox Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
5. "Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray". Nintendo Power. Vol. 171. Nintendo of America. September 2003. p. 140.
6. "ウェイクボーディング・アンリーシュト：フィーチャーリング・ショーン・マリー [Xbox]". Famitsu (in Japanese). Vol. 785. Enterbrain. January 1, 2004. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
7. Edge staff (July 2003). "Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray (PS2, Xbox)". Edge. No. 125. Future Publishing.
8. Elliott, Shawn; Tsao, Jennifer; Dudlak, Jonathan (July 2003). "Wakebaording Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray (PS2)". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 168. Ziff Davis. p. 108. Archived from the original on April 1, 2004. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
9. "Wakeboarding Unleashed [Featuring Shaun Murray] (PS2)". Game Informer. No. 121. GameStop. July 2003. p. 107.
10. "Wakeboarding Unleashed [Featuring Shaun Murray] (Xbox)". Game Informer. No. 121. GameStop. July 2003. p. 115. Archived from the original on April 29, 2004. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
11. Kilo Watt (June 4, 2003). "Wakebaording Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray Review for PS2 on GamePro.com". GamePro. IDG Entertainment. Archived from the original on January 20, 2005. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
12. Air Hendrix (June 4, 2003). "Wakebaording Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray for Xbox on GamePro.com". GamePro. IDG Entertainment. Archived from the original on January 13, 2005. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
13. Silverman, Ben (June 2003). "Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray Review (PS2, Xbox)". GameRevolution. CraveOnline. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
14. Gerstmann, Jeff (June 4, 2003). "Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray Review (PS2, Xbox)". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
15. Barnholt, Ray (November 20, 2003). "GameSpy: Wakebaording Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray (GBA)". GameSpy. IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on December 16, 2005. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
16. Padilla, Raymond (June 2, 2003). "GameSpy: Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray (PS2)". GameSpy. IGN Entertainment. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
17. Padilla, Raymond (June 4, 2003). "GameSpy: Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray (Xbox)". GameSpy. IGN Entertainment. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
18. Bedigian, Louis (November 17, 2003). "Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray - GBA - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on May 7, 2005. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
19. Hopper, Steven (January 29, 2004). "Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray - PC - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on October 4, 2008. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
20. Bedigian, Louis (June 16, 2003). "Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray - PS2 - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on November 20, 2007. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
21. Romano, Natalie (June 18, 2003). "Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray - XB - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on May 13, 2008. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
22. Harris, Craig (November 10, 2003). "Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray (GBA)". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
23. Goldstein, Hilary (June 4, 2003). "Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray (PS2)". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
24. Goldstein, Hilary (June 4, 2003). "Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray Review (Xbox)". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
25. Zuniga, Todd (July 2003). "Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. No. 70. Ziff Davis. p. 97. Archived from the original on March 29, 2004. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
26. "Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray". Official Xbox Magazine. Imagine Media. August 2003. p. 76.
27. Saltzman, Marc (July 1, 2003). "Extreme sports title a challenge to learn (PS2, Xbox)". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Gannett Company. Archived from the original on January 7, 2006. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
28. Catucci, Nick (June 24, 2003). "Hell Raiser". The Village Voice. Village Voice, LLC. Retrieved June 11, 2016.

External links

• Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray at MobyGames
• Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray (Game Boy Color) at MobyGames