SSX 3
From Electronic Arts
MODEL- 14710 VENDOR- ELECTRONICS ARTS FEATURES- SSX 3 Discover a colossal mountain where gamers will be immersed in a free-roaming snow paradise in an all-new SSX experience SSX 3. A unique ascent awaits you and when you reach the summit the ultimate ride is available: an open mountain to board explore and compete on. The mountain presents gamers with a world of open vistas and fresh powder for open exploration filled with trick venues rail parks racecourses and unbelievable half-pipes with new tricks to master and new competitors to take on. The SSX team has spent almost two years working to improve the core experience by adding loads of new experiences and ways to play. Buckle up your bindings as a returning veteran or keen new rookie. Getready to take on other riders-and the biggest challenge yet-the Mountain itself. * Open Mountain Environment: Get dropped onto the lower peak of the biggest mountain youve ever seen. Youll seamlessly board from one awesome area to the next-entering competitions taking on Big Challenges and discovering hidden collectables. Master the Challenges on all three peaks in your quest to conquer the Mountain..and make it your own. * Characters: Four new rivals join six returning characters. Mac Elise Zoe Moby Psymon and Kaori are back and theyre joined by the crazy Swede Viggo mountain man Nate 12 year-old phenom Griff and the talented and sexy Allegra. * Rich Natural Graphics: SSX3 boasts amazing graphics that show details like incredibly realistic shadows and snow that sparkles reflects light and even blows in the wind. These are just some of the rich environmental details created by an OSCAR nominated Hollywood visual effects designer. The amazing visuals work together to totally immerse the user in the SSX 3 world. * More Tricks: The tricks are completely blown out in SSX3. There is a collection of new Uber Tricks where users can combo and hold. Not only will SSX3 have the addition of specific Uber tricks on rails users will even ...
- Amazon Sales Rank: #10783 in Video Games
- Brand: Electronic Arts
- Model: 14633147124
- Released on: 2003-10-21
- ESRB Rating: Everyone
- Platform: GameCube
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .50" h x 5.50" w x 7.50" l, .35 pounds
It's you against the mountain. SSX 3 challenges gamers to drop in and conquer a massive, living mountain rife with ego-crushing challenges and gravity-bending thrills. Sporting an all-new open-ended gameplay structure, gamers are free to ride anywhere gravity takes them, seamlessly boarding from one event to the next as they begin their assault on the mountain's three larger-than-life peaks.
Gamers will need to overcome everything the mountain throws at them-from fierce lightening storms and breathtaking vertical drops to serpentine slope style courses and earth-swallowing avalanches-on their quest for the ultimate adrenaline rush. The mountain presents gamers with a world of open vistas and fresh powder for out of bounds exploration, filled with trick venues, rail parks, racecourses, and half-pipes with new tricks to master and new competitors to leave in the dust.
More than two years in the making, SSX 3 is a massive sequel to SSX and SSX Tricky, the games that started the EA SPORTS BIG brand. Buckle up your bindings as a returning veteran or fresh-faced rookie. Get ready to take on other riders-and the biggest challenge yet-the Mountain itself.
Key Features
- Conquer the Mountain: The larger-than-life mountain is your playground, your racetrack and your launch pad. Three massive peaks offer thrilling new opportunities for exploration, competition, and good old-fashioned showboating. Beat all three peaks and you're in for an epic half-hour ride down the face of the entire mountain.
- Go Anywhere: No menus. No restrictions. The mountain is an open canvas for gamers to explore-seamlessly ride from event to event, with no load times and no set path for gamers to follow. Hundreds of collectables, secrets, and shortcuts await.
- More Tricks: Gamers will have access to a massive arsenal of new Uber Tricks and special moves-from handplants to board presses. A new three-tiered Uber Trick system now includes one-footed Ubers, rail-based tricks and signature moves for each character. A new combo system allows for nearly endless combos that can run the length of the entire mountain.
- Characters: Four new characters join six returning favorites. Mac, Elise, Zoe, Moby, Psymon, and Kaori are back, and they're joined by the crazy Swede Viggo, mountain man Nate, 12 year-old phenom Griff, and the talented and sexy Allegra.
- Rich, Natural Graphics: A team lead by an Oscar-nominated visual effects artist has created the most immersive, stunning visual SSX experience to date. Capturing moments of both sublime scenic beauty and heart-pounding natural disaster, SSX 3 blends subtle environmental effects like glistening snow and swaying trees with the trademark SSX graphic flash and attitude.
- Soundtrack: An adrenaline-charged soundtrack delivers bleeding-edge tracks and tomorrow's hits from artists including the X-Ecutioners, Felix Da Housecat, Queens of the Stone Age, N.E.R.D., and many more.
- Big Challenges: Gamers will find 150 unique hidden challenges, designed to test their speed, skill and style as they explore untamed backcountry areas.
- Customization and Rewards: Win BIG and you'll be rewarded. SSX 3 let's players level up character abilities, win killer gear, stock their trophy room and buy mp3s for personal play lists and much, much more.
Incredible, but not without flaws
Brand new from EA is the latest in the successful SSX snowboarding saga, SSX 3. Whether this is your first SSX game or you're a faithful follower of the previous two, this game will flat-out amaze you. No other snowboarding game so perfectly combines the reality of the feel, touch and appearance of gliding through the snow with the jaw-dropping physics defying stunts you'll be able to easily execute from the moment you pick up a controller.
Several new additions are found in SSX3, most notably the Conquer the Mountain mode of play. In this mode you select a snowboarder and build him or her up - like in the previous versions of the game - except this time you're doing it for cash in order to purchase various accessories and abilities.
Rather than take you all over the world to snowboard, SSX3 keeps you in one location - a gigantic mountain with 3 separate peaks. Each individual peak is bigger than entire contents of the SSX Tricky (wow). You begin on peak one and as you win medals in different venues, you eventually unlock peak two, and so on. The events you'll compete in on each peak are the old familiar ones - racing and freestyle - as well as some very cool new ones: Freeride, where you collect icons for money and perform various missions; Big Air which is usually a very short run where you try to land huge scores in only a few jumps; Rival Challenges where you have a one-on-one duel with your nemesis down the mountain, trying to beat their score or best time; the Superpipe, an event where you ride the length of a pipe garnering unbelievable air; Slopestyle, which has you basically in a gigantic downhill snowboard park. It's up to you to find your own route down and score the most points; and the enormous Peak Events. This is worthy of its own section. There are 3 Peak Events, one for each peak. After you have medaled in all of the freestyle or race venues for a given peak, you'll then compete in the Peak Event where you'll race from the top of that peak to the bottom, usually encompassing 3 - 4 of the venues from that peak. Peak one's race is over ten minutes. Peak two includes not only it's own trails but also peak one's trails. This race is over twenty minutes. Lastly, Peak three's event takes you down all three peaks for over a half hour.
Back also are the Uber-tricks, but there's a new slew of super-Uber-tricks, as well as rail Uber-tricks and board presses, which allow you to spin on the tip of your board while either on the ground or on a rail. The addition of the rail tricks are great, but I'm not thrilled with the Uber-tricks. Many of them are simply the same exact ones that the characters performed in SSX Tricky.
Most of the old characters make an appearance here as well as a few new ones, the most popular sure to be the 12-year-old prodigy Griff and the cute 18-year-old Allegra. Each character has a designated enemy with whom they'll square off in the various one-on-one Rival competitions throughout the game.
The graphics are far better than its predecessor, SSX Tricky, which was outstanding in its own right. The snow is amazing. As you change from powder to hardpack to ice, you can not only hear and feel the difference of the board on the surface but you can also tell by the way the light glistens of it.
This game provides seemingly endless game play, allowing you to travel literally hundreds of unique routes down each of the dozens of trails with ten different riders, each with their own special characteristics.
The music is one-of-a-kind. With everyone from the Black Eyed Peas to Fat Boy Slim, you'll never get bored of hearing the same lame soundtrack over and over again. SSX3 also employs a unique mixing system - The music is mixed in real time as you play, meaning it changes depending upon how you're performing. If you are cruising along with tons of momentum expect the music to be busy, loud and aggressive. If you catch air, often the drums will drop out while you soar, which will usually lead to a huge musical entrance perfectly timed with your landing.
However, a few negatives. Everything can't be perfect. The game is touted as allowing you "go anywhere" and true, there is a huge realm in which you can travel, the biggest I've ever seen in a game. But every once in a while if you stray off the beaten path only a little - and I mean only a few feet (in the game scale obviously) - you will be out of bounds and reset to the path again. They would've done better to expand these narrow areas of play, since it brings down what is otherwise a huge game universe.
As previously mentioned, the Uber-tricks are basically the same as in other versions of the game, except for the new characters. I was really hoping for more amazing stunts. Additionally, I would've liked more interaction with the "plot" section of the game. There could be more inter-character drama, more clothes to buy, etc.
Lastly, it can be a little complicated to know what you're supposed to do. It's not easy to figure out how to get into the lodge, buy attributes, compete in different events, etc. If you're wondering, you need to go to the transport, then pick which course you want to go to. Once there you'll find yourself snowboarding and you'll see signs for the different events, simply follow the sign to the event you want to do. And to get to the lodge, you need to go to the transport, select which peak you want (each has it's own lodge), then select the "station" option. Once there you'll be snowboarding along and you'll see the signs for the lodge. Just glide in and enter.
Even with the flaws, I couldn't give the game less than five stars. It might be the deepest game you'll own.
Kaori's back with avengence!
SSX 3 is a must-have for a video game collection. A lot of things went right in this game, such as the characters and their personalities. But many other items have succeeded in here to.
CHARACTERS: All I need to say is that the personalities were well tweaked, they even surpass SSX Tricky. With Mac bullying Griff, the normal school routine for many kids; The psychotic man Psymon who can't get enough of the dare devil babe Zoe; and the list goes on and on. The most developed personalities are:
Griff
Kaori
Psymon
Mac
Moby
Elise
But the other characters were wll-thought out as well.
EVENTS: All the snowboarding events from the race on Happiness to the big air competition at Crow's Nest have a maze of shortcuts and special items; And three peaks of this stuff will make you beg for more when completed. But no worries - none of the tracks get old and you can do them over and over again without getting bored.
OUTFITS: Not much to say here except amazing! Unlike in SSX Tricky, SSX 3 gives you more designing options for your characters. Their outfits match their personalities as well. Really creative- five stars most definitely.
EVERYTHING ELSE: What can I say? Almost everything rocks in this game! Rewards, extras, and the radio system- all exceptional.
This game is worth any money spent on it- absolutely a best buy. Ten out of five stars.
SSX 3 Snowboarding Game
In SSX 3, there are incredible new features. New events like Slopestyle including R&B on Peak 1, Style Mile on Peak 2 and Kick Doubt on Peak 3 are packed with rails, gap jumps, halfpipes and massive areas to jump. Another new event is the Big Air events including Crow's Nest on Peak 1, Launch Time on Peak 2 and Much 2 Much on Peak 3 are packed with the most massive jumps on the mountain, rails and gap jumps. The last new event is the Super Pipe event including The Junction on Peak 1, Schizophernia on Peak 2 and Perpendiculous on Peak 3 are full of halfpipes and rails. The Race events include Snow-Jam and Metro City on Peak 1, Intimedator and Ruthless Ridge on Peak 2 and Gravitude on Peak 3. There is also the Backcountry where the Rival events are held. There are Peak bosses too. On Peak 1 the Peak boss is either Mac or Griff. On Peak 2 either Nate or Zoey is the Peak boss. On Peak 3 either Psymon or Elise is the Peak boss. If you want to get to the next Peak you have to beat the Peak boss on whatever Peak you're on. There are only 3 Peaks on the SSX 3 mountain so if you happen to beat Psymon or Elise you will not get another Peak pass because there isn't one. There are some new charecters in this game. They are Griff Simmons, Allegra Sauvagess, Nate Logan and Viggo Roiling. DJ Atomika will give info about the mountain on EA Radio BIG. He will play songs that he picks randomly or he'll play a song off your Custom List of Songs. If you win a gold medal in a compatition, you will recieve money and an accessory for your charecter. If you have enough monney you can go to the Lodge on the Peak your on (or a previous one) and buy accessories, songs (for your Custom List on EA Radio Big), Attributes to impriove your charecters Speed and Tricks.
