''Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray'' is an extreme sports video game developed by

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and Beenox, and published by Activision under the Activision O2 label and Aspyr for Game Boy Advance,

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and mobile phones in 2003. It features wakeboarder

Shaun Murray Shaun Murray is an American four-time World champion wakeboarder, and the main character featured in Activision O2's video game '' Wakeboarding Unleashed Featuring Shaun Murray'' (originally under the working title ''Shaun Murray's Pro Wakeboard ...

Reception

The game received "favorable" reviews on all platforms except the Game Boy Advance version, which received "average" reviews, according to the

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'' gave the Game Boy Advance version a mixed review, over two months before its release Stateside. In Japan, where the Xbox version was ported for release on December 25, 2003, ''

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'' gave it a score of one six, one five, and two sixes for a total of 23 out of 40.

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