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Some reviewers were mixed regarding the gameplay and sound design, and criticized the lack of replay value, limited color palette, and letterboxed resolution.
Hobby Consolass Roberto Lorente praised the fast-paced polygon graphics, sound design, playability, and fun factor but found the color palette as not very flashy.
Total!s Frederic Berg commended the gameplay, polygon visuals, techno-style music, and sound design but criticized the lack of replay value.
MAN!ACs Martin Gaksch gave positive remarks to the funky presentation, interesting 3D polygon visuals, and fast pacing of each discipline but was mixed regarding sound and criticized the poor color palette with the same sentiment as Lorente, and the letterboxed resolution.
Video Games Thomas Wiesner regarded the fast-paced 3D graphics as very impressive for Super NES standards, innovations of each discipline, controls, music, and sound design but, like Berg, he criticized the lack of gameplay variety in Winter Gold outside of improving personal time records and competing against AI opponents.
In a similar way as Lorente and Gaksch, Mega Funs Christoph Pütz criticized the lack of colors but commended the soundtrack.
Mørkrid stated that Winter Gold was conceived with the working title FX Skiing by producer Erik Gloersen, who wanted to make an official Winter Olympic video game for Lillehammer but this idea did not come to fruition.
He questioned Gloersen about developing a winter sports game though similar released games were not good, and Gloersen replied: "That's exactly why we're gonna make a great one".
Spaans said that the team wanted to avoid on-rails gameplay when developing games that are played over full motion video backgrounds such as Star Wars: Rebel Assault, so the team developed a track system enabling an infinite number of courses out of eight distinct parts and having similar frames on each sequence to use as a transition into a new track section.
Spaans also stated that it was difficult merging characters into the backgrounds but Mørkrid claimed that "the game would have never been" without the involvement of Spaans, Stevenson, and Endre Endresen.
Spaans also stated that it was difficult merging characters into the backgrounds but Mørkrid claimed that "the game would have never been" without the involvement of Spaans, Stevenson, and Endre Endresen.
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