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Game Information
Product Features
- Open freestyle riding
- Spectacular real mountains
- Snowboarding media stars
- More music
- More in-game choice for maximum replayability
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Amped ditches the conventional race mode of other snowboard games and instead focuses on snowboard freestyle--executing tricks with style. The excellent trick system and accurate physics make for tight game play across the board. It sports a robust career mode as well as quick start and multiplayer modes.
Career mode is divided into four parts: high score, media, sponsor and pro ride. High score challenges the player to pile on as many tricks as possible. Media requires the player to execute tricks at certain points where a photographer is waiting. Sponsor mode focuses on a particular group of tricks. For instance, one sponsor may favour grinds over airs, so players better make sure to grind everything in site to win the sponsor's gear. This mode is also the least forgiving since it's the only one where mistakes detract from the overall score. Finally pro ride has the player follow and out-trick one of 17 professional riders in a follow-the-leader manner. Multiplayer mode allows up to four players to participate in a round-robin tournament with numerous selectable conditions.
Graphically the game isn't as sharp as EA's SSX Tricky, nor are the physics and pace as extreme. That isn't to say the game looks bad. The real-life locations of Stratton, Brighton, Altibahn and more look great. The soundtrack features more than 50 songs in a wide array of genres including electronica, hip-hop, rap, punk, ska and reggae. Players can also opt to use their own soundtrack off the Xbox hard drive, so they can snowboard to Journey and Air Supply as nature intended. --Raymond M Padilla
Product Description
Could this be SSXbox? Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding is the first snowboarding game which focuses on freestyle riding rather than structured courses, races and tricks. You'll be able to take to the mountains to rip the ultimate line, grind the rails and perform some killer tricks. The bigger, better and more daring tricks you manage to pull off in front of the world's media will get your face on video and magazine covers. If you get enough international exposure, you'll become one of the international snowboarding superstars. Expect cool music to go with the even cooler tracks.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Video Game
I am a competitive snowboarder and this game is the closest thing you'll get to riding a snowboard while sitting in front of the TV, it's almost perfect!
The graphics are excellent, the detail of real 01/02 season equipment and riders is well researched (the developers must be boarders!). The games contols are slighly difficult but thats a positive thing its more realistic and when you pull off something like a "Corked 900 Palm air" its very satisfying. So if your snowboard or interested in snowboarding this is the ONLY game worth considering at this point in time!
The graphics are excellent, the detail of real 01/02 season equipment and riders is well researched (the developers must be boarders!). The games contols are slighly difficult but thats a positive thing its more realistic and when you pull off something like a "Corked 900 Palm air" its very satisfying. So if your snowboard or interested in snowboarding this is the ONLY game worth considering at this point in time!
My only gripe is the game's depth (there's no sense of real acheivement probably to lack of competition mode). No proper multiplayer mode (what's the point of owning console if you can't play it with your mates in realtime?) Oh and the photographers really can get on your nerves!
Could be a perfect game with the addition of the above but still from a snowboarder's/gamer's point of view far far better than SSX Tricky.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Video Game
I bought Amped with my Xbox and it sat at the back of the shelf until I'd finished Halo and Jet Set Radio because, the first couple of times I put the game on, it was just so darned difficult to do anything. However, work your way past the tough start, and learn the controls, and you'll find a game that is both rewarding and fun to play.
Amped isn't the standard race down a hill pulling the occasional stunt kind of snowboarding game we're used to. The closest thing to it previously would have been 1080 Snowboarding on the N64, but the game is even more free form than that. Yes, there are set runs down hillsides, but they interlink with each other and give a great deal of freedom of movement to the player. Obviously, they're liberally sprinkled with bumps and ramps and rails and jumps for you to trick away on and the control system - once mastered - allows you to pull off outrageous stunts. It all feels quite realistic - you have to learn to land your stunts correctly to pick up points, you have to balance your board while jibbing or grinding rails (or whatever it's called), you have to learn to rotate fully when spinning or looping. The game doesn't do much automatically. But that's what makes it rewarding - when you pull off a great sequence of tricks and land a massive score, you know it's because you've done it, not the game.
Graphically, it's OK. There's no slowdown, the boarders move well, the lens flare is pretty, but it isn't Halo or JSRF. The soundtrack has loads of tunes on it but you'll probably find yourself using the "rip" option on your Xbox and compiling your own soundtrack after a short while.
I thought it was dull as dishwater the first couple of times I played it, but I love Amped now. It ain't a game for rental - buy it and perservere.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Video Game
This is the only game I have so far bought that justifies my decision to spend weeks downloading my CDs onto the hard drive. I shall say now - I'm not that good at it (although a rousing, personalized soundtrack works wonders with my jumps). It is a lot of fun when you've had a few tinnies because you can appreciate the odd occasion when you land a monster combo without worrying that you missed your target score by 50000. My problem with the game is that success in my case seems more random than anything attributable to skill. There are certain jumps and grinds that I know I can pull off, but they earn fewer points each time you do them. The other skiiers on the piste fly by me (or over me) performing stunts which defy my ABXY pressing ability. But hey, maybe I'm just rubbish.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great Game!!!!!
Having been a long time fan of games like THPS, I initially found the controlls a little frustrating being the opposite way round from the activision controlls. Read more
Published on 29 Sep 2003
Its a great fun game
I was very very pleased with the detail and graphics this game has to offer. The career mode is very enjoyable having to do different tasks to gain sponsership and media... Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2003 by "yamumina69"
Hard but Fantastic
I have played a few snowboard games on different platforms and have to say that this game is easily the best. Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2002 by M. Gordon
Perfect
I dont own this or an X-BOX but i borrowed my mates because he found it to hard.
A lot of people judge this game on how hard it is but that is very true too life and if you... Read more
A lot of people judge this game on how hard it is but that is very true too life and if you... Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2002
Love it and Hate it
Well this game is pretty good, but its not like SSX tricky one bit, the graphics are firstly *a lot* better, and secondly this game is *A LOT* harder. Read more
Published on 16 April 2002 by Mr. A. J. Fleming
I hate this game
Some people have compared this game with SSX Tricky, and thinking im getting a game like that i buy this one. I found a game that is ridicoulesly hard. Read more
Published on 10 April 2002 by Søren Rothman
Totally Amped
Well what can I say, this boarding game is the dogs, a little hard to master the controls at first but far less painfull than actually getting out there. Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2002
damn damn damn
Well, what can i say. its beautiful like almost every game on the xbox, you feel your there -snowboarding, were it not for edges of the tv screen im playing it on. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2002 by Alexander Crede
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