It's snowing! - beautiful snow in games

[bigbrick]

IO seem to do snow well, both Freedom Fighters and Hitman: Blood Money had nice looking snowfall effects.

[Sonic.Mirrorz]

[SM47]

I was having a wander around The Jerrall Mountains in Oblivion yesterday, around sunset and it started snowing.

Absolutely beautiful.

Then I stripped down to my underwear and did a lap around Bruma.

[Raane]

Bloodmoon for Morrowind had some pretty good snow too.

[Mr Do 71]

Thats the one thread over !

Nobody did snow as well as they did in 1080, same with water in waverace - how come ?

The creative men and women at Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development (EAD).

[earlymodernsteve]

And then there's the brilliant Codemasters' Pro Ski simulator. One of the worst games on the Amstrad due to horrible controls and ridiculously fast forced scrolling but strangely beautiful in a rose-tinted kind of way.

[Kayin Amoh]

The Dojo stage in Doa 2 Ultimate is a magical, beautiful place. And you can smash your opponents through a happy snowman. A happy snowman, being used for violence!

Epic.

[layten]

Perfect untouched snow, and the undead. What a winning combo.

[Calashnikov]

BLIZZARD!!! level in Yoshi's Island. The way the snowfall starts gradually, before you go inside an icy cave, only to come back out to find the place under a thick white blanket just blew me away at the time. It's the closest any game has come to nailing that feeling you got when you woke up on a school day to find your street was 6 inches deep in snow Then the level after that had you rolling big snowballs about

[Jack]

Heading up the path from Kharanos into Ironforge for the first time is fantastic. I can't wait till Wrath of the Lich King, then we get a shitload of snow to play in.

[shynra]

Thought ill add two more... that van

We really need an animated gif of soma running along that van for the full effect...

edit - one more:

[Raff]

Still shits all over Rogue Squadron.

[TehStu]

I'd volunteer Winterspring on WoW, but I don't subscribe any more to take a screenshot. Here's Guild Wars though, whose snow is pretty:

[Number 28]

I didn't think much of the game, but at the time the Hoth level in Rogue (rouge ) Leader was beautiful. Blew pretty much everything out the water at the time.

Also I would add...

Okami

Vagrant Story (ok, so they're flies, but still )

[Wroth]

[b00dles]

For some reason Wroth's pic just made me think the skeleton was giving it some 'the roof! the roof! the roof is on fire, we don't give a damn let the motherfucker buuuuurn' but then, I'm silly like that.

That freeware ski racing game on the PC with the abominable snowman

Zak & Wiki's snow levels were nice too.

[mprice]

Heading up the path from Kharanos into Ironforge for the first time is fantastic. I can't wait till Wrath of the Lich King, then we get a shitload of snow to play in.

Snow in WoW is where it's at baby!

It's really at it's best with the effects on full, with the sunlight playing over the drifts and the excellently deep crunch sound as you run through it.

[Number 28]

[Rayn]

Jack beat me to it, but here's another snowy picture from WoW (this is Winterspring though)

Jazz Jackrabbit Christmas Edt. had some really nice snowy lvls too:

Already mentioned, but Mario 64s Snow lvl is pure

[Wiper]

Yes. Outcast was beautiful, and the opening snowy area was no different. Though the stealth training that took place in it was a piece of crap (until it let you off without completing it, which amused me).

[Sabreman]

This is from the PGR4 photo thread

This challenge is probably the most fun I ever had in a more 'serious' racing game. I absolutely loved it.

[Vin]

Holy shit, how could I forget SSX3 - that beautiful, sexy beast of a game.

[Landshead]

Really need to finish Resistance, if only to see the london snow chapters.

[McSpeed]

Can't find a better screen unfortunately Though this might really help.

[Wroth]

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