The game received average reviews on both platforms according to thereview aggregation websiteGameRankings.[3][4]GameSpot gave the PlayStation version a favorable review, over a month before its U.S. release date.[13] However,Next Generation said of the same console version, "In the end, its style-over-substance, mediocre gameplay is what you'll remember the most."[16] In Japan, where the same console version was ported and published byElectronic Arts Square, also under the nameX-Games Pro Boarder (X GAMES プロボーダー,Ekkusu Gēmuzu Puro Bōdā), on March 11, 1999,Famitsu gave it a score of 28 out of 40.[9]GamePro said that the PlayStation version "enters the PlayStation snowboarding foray to carve a piece out ofCool Boarders' mountain. ButX Games Pro Boarder doesn't have the kick to knockCB off the slopes."[20][c]
^inElectronic Gaming Monthly's review of the PlayStation version, one critic gave it 5.5/10, two others gave it each a score of 5/10, and another gave it 6.5/10.
^InGameFan's viewpoint of the PlayStation version, one critic gave it 86, and the other 84.
^GamePro gave the PlayStation version all four 3.5/5 scores for graphics, sound, control, and fun factor.
^Higgins, Geoff "El Nino"; Stockert, Bruce "Reubus" (January 1999)."X Games Pro Boarder (PS)".GameFan. Vol. 7, no. 1. Shinno Media. p. 88. RetrievedOctober 6, 2020.
^Perry, Douglass C. (November 11, 1998)."X Games Pro Boarder (PS)".IGN. Ziff Davis.Archived from the original on August 21, 2023. RetrievedAugust 28, 2023.
