A pro snowboarder and a gold medal skier react to Ubisoft’s Steep

Ubisoft says its Steep extreme winter sports video game is highly realistic. And to back that up, the French video game company made a couple of snow sports stars available to talk about it at a recent preview event at GoPro’s headquarters in San Mateo, Calif.

I interviewed the athletes about what it feels like to do the real thing and to see it depicted in a video game. Professional snowboarder Samuel Luebke has competed in the Freeride World Tour on Mount Blanc, which is one of the central mountains in Steep. It is the mountain nearest to Ubisoft Annecy, the studio that created the game with extreme skiing, snowboarding, wingsuit flying, and parachute gliding. The game comes out on December 2 on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC.