SSX 3

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Drop onto the lower peak of the biggest mountain you've ever seen, as you seamlessly board from one area to the next - enter competitions, take on Big Challenges, and discover hidden collectables
• Be careful -- besides the six returning characters, four new rivals will do what they can to stop you. Viggo, Nate, Griff and Allegra offer a new level of competition
• All-new rail parks, racecourses, and unbelievable half-pipes are waiting -- try out the mind-blowing new trick combos here, or the amazing new Uber Tricks
• Grind billboards, board press logs, even hand plant the fence line -- over 100 challenges to board
• Play any way you want -- players get the option of competing in any events or go freeriding

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009WAVI
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 14, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (116 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,150 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #7 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Sports
  • #31 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Adventure

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

From the Manufacturer

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.

Product Description

SSX 3 takes you to a colossal mountain for the ultimate snowboarding game! Incredible environmental details, from the sparkling snow to the realistic shadows Conquer all three peaks of the mountain and earn immortality as a great snowboarder!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

64 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible, but not without flaws, October 23, 2003

By 

Robert Graves (Thompson Station, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SSX 3 (Video Game)

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.

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Third time definitely has charm..., November 1, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: SSX 3 (Video Game)

I'll be blunt: I don't like sports games. I loathe them. A total waste of time in my opinion. I prefer arcade, RPGs, platformers, etc... pretty much every other type of game around. Sitting down to play a sports game is about the same as having my nails pulled out.. plain, unadulterated toture.
But SSX3 isn't like other sports games. It's not a game that you have to be a hardcore sports nut to appreciate and enjoy. It has what so many other games (sports and other genres) have forgotten.
Fun.

It's flat out, addictive, grab you by the throat fun! It'll keep you saying "just one more race, I can nail that trick!" until 3:14am in the morning. It's as superior to SSX Tricky as Tricky is to every other snowboarding game out there.. and that's saying a lot! SSX3 is a sports game that cuts across the lines and appeals to people from all walks of life.
Do yourself a favor and try this one out. You'll be glad you did.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bigger, and better than ever, January 20, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: SSX 3 (Video Game)

Unlike SSX Tricky where you go to a bunch of different places, there is one mountain here, one HUGE mountain. No wonder it's called big mountain!

There are three different events to do. Freesyle, Race, and Freeride. The freestyle is three different events, Big air, Super Pipe, and slopestyle. Big air is exactly what it says, BIG air. You go off huge jumps and do ill tricks on a short course. Super pipe is new to this game and is very fun. You go down a pipe doing combos and just trying to get your best biggest greatest score. Slope style is like SSX Tricky freestly, only bigger, and better finding your own uniqe line to get big points.

The race is a hard, fast race down a long course with enemies and friends around you. You have to a good racer, and as smart, and tricky as you can be 'cause your gonna want to find shortcut's, and knock opponents off their feet. When you get gold here, you either deserve it, or not.

Free ride is a ride down any trail (race event, freestyle event)to get collectible's, and do mission's for cash. Also when in frees ride doing tricks gets you money, but not much.

When you get cash you can spend it on stat's, clothes, or boards. It is cool because in SSX Tricky you just won a board, and couldn't buy what board you want, or clothes.

There are also new characters like Griff, Alegra, Viggo, and Nate, all very nice, and fun characters to play. Also you have Mac, Elise, Phsymon, Moby, Kaori, and more back from SSX Tricky. All these characters have different rivaleries. (like Griff, and Mac)

Another thing is the new EA Radio BIG where D.J. Atomica gives you info, and such about the mountain. The music is also great. Depending on your performance the music is different say your doing well, the music is fast, and strong, then when you catch big air the music pauses, then BANG comes roaring back in as soon as you land.

Also the graphics are awesome. You can see theight affects, the powder and ice, and hardpacked. Also there are avalanches, Ice breaking under your feet, trees falling, and high winds pushing you off course, this game looks, and sounds great.

Also after beating all the races, or freestyle events on that peak you get a peak race first agains your rival in that peak's backcountry, then down the whole peak. These races are long, and hard. Peak 1's race is 10 minutes long, including two courses. Peak twos race is 20 minute's long going down peak 2, and 1. Peak 3's race is over 30 minutes! down peak's 3, 2, and 1. These will leave you sitting on the edge of your seat at the end of the awesome run.

There are a few flaws though. The Uber tricks aren't very good, basiclly the same as SSX Tricky. Also it's hard to get to the lodge, and such at first. The lodge is at a the station on each peak (Red station, Blue station...) just transport here, or follow the sings to get to the lodge to but stats, clothes, and boards.

Over all a very fun game, and I hope yoiu enjoy it as much as I do!

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