"First of its kind" online for Shaun White Comments by Johnny Minkley

so other single player, players populate you're game :O)
that sounds realy nice

Sounds promising, but all snowboarding games line or die by their control system (in my book anyway) so if that isn't nailed, nothing else matters. Hopefully it will be ace, as there is a real hole in the market for a decent snowboarding game right now.

This is exactly what I was hoping Amped 2 was going to have back when Live was still in its relative infancy.

I wish Amped 3 had done it, because I'm not buying this Shaun White game. Everything I've seen of it looks ugly, clunky and extremely empty and dull in comparison to Amped.

I'm interested, but I suspect that's mostly because I still haven't heard current-gen SSX news yet. Still, I'm definitely keeping an open mind about this one. If the controls feel nice then they could really be onto something.

All I want to know is where the hell is SSX4?

It will of course depend what it plays like, but the idea of hanging out on the slopes with buddies, and them being populated with real other boarders sounds pretty interesting - SSX3's lush mountain would have seemed that little bit more authentic with other dudes and dudetess chilling out around the place.

Gnarly.

Give me SSX tricky part II please.

I frankly detest the whole 'open world' theme that's infecting all my favourite game franchises. It's so 'indistinct' you know? I like to have a course with maybe a couple alternate route sections and really get to know that course inside out, rather than just just board past miles and miles of boring identikit mountain.

I want to get to know the 'bastard' corners/jumps and NAIL them. I want to know every trick to eek the last couple thousand points out of a course.

SSX3 bored me shitless whereas Tricky... well it's one of the few PS2 games I still own and even if I didnt have a PS2 anymore I'd still keep the game, and take it out every now and then to hug it and go 'Mmmmmmmmmmm' with a big grin on my face. Then I might break out the Run DMC CD's and undo my laces....

@kangarootoo

Totally agree with you. I loved the control system/gameplay in Amped 2 which they improved over Amped by adding style, so it didn't matter how many rotations you did, but rewarded you for managing to slowly fit in 1 or 2 spins in one fluid motion which forced you to try and judge the speed of the rotation to fit it in before you hit the ground. If you managed to have the spin end just before you landed with no deviation in rotational speed you would get a "Stomped it!" visual appear on the screen which meant you earned mega points for the trick you just landed :-) Amped and Amped 2 were not easy, but they were so rewarding once you mastered them. They totally stuffed this up in Amped 3 though by making it far too easy and lenient with landings making it almost impossible to stack... :-(

I'm very glad that this game wasn't canceled though as I hadn't heard anything about it in ages and there is a real hole in the market as you pointed out for a snowboarding game. I sure hope this is the snowboarding genres equivalent of EA's "skate".

I want SSX Tricky 2....too. Tricky on my GC was played to death. Maxing out scores on each run was joy. I got some insane score on the first course, it took me ages to master but in the end I just hit everything right. It was fun.

Larger open world might be cool (I liked Amped 3, which had that sort of, + the style was brilliant), but I also like rigidly defined and crafted gameworlds, if they're good. OW does not necessarily = genius.

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