AMPED FREESTYLE SNOWBOARDING (XBOX)

by DreamGEAR

Product Features

• XBOX
• Video Game
• Sports
• Snow Boarding
• XBOX Game

Product Details

• ASIN: B00005Q5CW
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (94 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,795 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding ditches the conventional racing modes of other snowboarding games and instead focuses on freestyle action--in other words, executing tricks with style. The excellent trick system and accurate physics make for tight gameplay across the board. The game 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 favor 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, as 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, Snow Summit, and more look great. The soundtrack features more than 50 songs in a wide array of genres, including electronica, emo, hip-hop, rap, punk, ska, and reggae. Players can also opt to use their own soundtracks off the Xbox hard drive, letting them snowboard to Journey and Air Supply as nature intended. --Raymond M. Padilla

Pros:

• Excellent career mode
• Strong physics and trick system
• Vast soundtrack

Cons:

• Might be too slow for typical extreme-sports fans
• Weaker graphics than the competition
• Boring sound effects

Product Description

Amped™: Freestyle Snowboarding is the first snowboarding game focused on freestyle riding. Rip the ultimate line on wide-open real mountains packed with jumps and rails. Hit the cliffs jib the rainbow tree rail or take the hidden path through the trees for a different ride every time. Pull insane tricks in front of roaming camera crews to get your face on video and magazine covers. Get enough international exposure to become one of the worlds snowboarding media superstars. And do it all to the music of over 150 core indie tracks.Features:Get in on the first snowboarding game focused on open freestyle riding. Trick off of 1500 jumps and rails on 80 wide-open mountain runs.Shred an amped-up version of Utah's Brighton Vermont's Stratton and California's Snow Summit mountain resorts.In this game you need guts strategy and creativity to gain media notoriety and become a snowboarding superstar.Amped features 150 music tracks from core indie labels. Rip your own songs onto Xbox and import them into the game.Format: XBOX Genre: SPORTS/GAMES Rating: E - Everyone UPC: 659556745042 Manufacturer No: 74504

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best sport game on the X-box, November 21, 2001

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Reggie (phoenix) - See all my reviews

This review is from: AMPED FREESTYLE SNOWBOARDING (XBOX) (Video Game)

I just purchased the game and I absolutely love the game. The graphics like all x-box games look like your watching a live match it looks realistic and plays realistic. The game is fun, fast, but very hard too control if you are new to the snowboarding genre. In my opinion the game has a steep learning curve. this is definitely 5 stars

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SUPERB, November 26, 2001

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Donald Knox (Gettysburg, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: AMPED FREESTYLE SNOWBOARDING (XBOX) (Video Game)

This is not a game so much as an excercise in addiction control and you will fail! The need to play this tugs at you every few minutes when your XBox is turned off. This is by far the best XBox launch title other than the magnificent Halo. But the difference between the two is that Amped has a tremendous amount of replay. Graphically this title go's far beyond anything else ever made. It's also one of the first XBox titles to take advantage of the built in Hard Drive by storing all the environmental data such as Trees and backgrounds. So there will be literally no popup or distance fogging commonly used to improve frame rates. You can literally see forever particularly on the huge mountains such as the Altibahn. There are so many different levels of bump mapping and textures on the snow alone it makes your head spin. There is plowed snow, Poweder, lined, Ice, packed, you name it.
Gameplay is where it's at though. This is the way Snowboarding should be. Total freestyle. Not some SSX clone running down unreal tracks and knocking others down along the way. This is all about choosing your own line, and pulling incredible moves.
Do yourself a favor, if you own the XBox, buy this now. This truly shows why the Xbox is the most powerfull console created.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun Game, Bends But Not Breaks the Rules of Physics, December 28, 2001

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D. Morseburg (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: AMPED FREESTYLE SNOWBOARDING (XBOX) (Video Game)

I've owned Amped for four weeks (over 60 hours of play), and I rented SSX Tricky for five days (over 20 hours of play). I'm a skier, not a boarder, and I love Amped. SSX Tricky has its good points too, but with that game the characters break dance on their boards and can't wander off the given path. In Amped the boarder is firmly attached to his bindings, and behaves more realistically. If you want a racing game with cartoon-like characters, go for SSX Tricky. If you want a fun single-player game get Amped. One funny addition in Amped is the taunts from the other boarders when you bite a trick: 'You dropped your pocket!'

Pros:
- Fun! High replay value. Either go for high scoring tricks, or wander the mountain looking for snowmen to run over. Or ride the entire length of a ski lift cable.
- More realistic physics than SSX Tricky (OK, so no one can jump 50 feet high), but you can stop anywhere on the mountain, and pick your own path down the mountain.
- Beautiful graphics: whisps of snow, shadows, sparkling snow, hard ice
- Customize the background music to CD's you rip to the XBox hard drive

Cons:
- No simultaneous multi-player: you take turns.
- No time challenges, no gate racing
- Tough learning curve if you have Tony Hawk trick habits