Customer Reviews

SSX Tricky (Xbox)

5 star:		(35)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

This is by far the best Snowboarding game available in the market. This game is not a simulation, but is a little more realistic than Amped. It is certainly an arcade racer with an arcade feel on it, you will be amazed how much strategy you will need to perform the "Uber" trick. Unlike the orginal SSX, which was just a racer, SSX tricky is a major overhaul of SSX. In tricky performing tricks will give you access to the "UBER" trick and an infinite turbo gauge, unlike in the original where you perform tricks just because you could.

Is this just a port from the PS2 version? The answer is no, the Xbox version certainly has lesser load times and plays much faster than its counterpart. Though it's essentially identical to the PS2 version, the Xbox incarnation does come with a handful of graphical frills that you will no doubt appreciate. The graphics are much more clear, you can actually look in the snow and notice the snow flakes. Frame rate is crisp and characters are also self-shadowed. There is also some DVD extras with the package where you can see Lucy Lui!!

All in all the best SSX Tricky verion is XboX. But if you have it in another system, same gameplay, so stick with your other versions. But if you have Ps2 and XboX like me, go for the XboX version.

SSX Tricky has got to be the MOST FUN snowboarding game ever. I bought AMPED and it was okay, but a bit slow for my tastes. I am not a snowboarder so I didn't really care for how "realistic" AMPED claimed to be.

SSX Tricky on the other hand is taking up all of my time. It is fun fun fun. Why? Because it is a game that doesn't pretend to be anything else. You race against other snowboarders, knock them down, make friends, pull off insanely impossible tricks that are just the coolest things to see. I have spent about 6 hours playing this so far and haven't even finished one character all the way through! I'll be playing this game for a LONG LONG time.!

I really liked the description of the game so I bought it.

Frist, lets start with the bad things:
1. When you play two player mode, the screen divides vertically. Making it hard to see where you are going.
(Wow! Only one bad thing!)

Now, Lets start with the good things:
1. The characters kick butt!
2. The tracks are wild, crazy, and challenging and has many different regions. And looks really realistic.
3. The amazing, impossible, tricks add excitement to the game.
4. You have to complete races and trick levels to "unlock" more powerful boards and gain access to different outfits. (That makes it fun!)
5. The ability to "hit" other opponents. *grin*
6. Uber Tricks

The list can go on amd on... If you want a fun, arcade type of racing game, This is definatly the game for you. I love it and I can't stop playing it!

SSX Tricky is more of an upgrade than a sequal to SSX, but it is still an exceptional game. Two brand new cources, Garibaldi and Alaska are added and both are really fun courses. The old levels are all changed, and some like Snowdream and Pipedream are really different. (Even better, in my opinion) There are 5 new characters, along with all of the old ones from SSX except for 2. There are lots of different grabs you can do, and then you can tweak them all out. The addition of UBER tricks makes the game even more interesting and fun. Each rider has his or her signature move, along with a few other UBER tricks that a couple other riders might be able to do. The only con is the fact that there are only 3 grab buttons on the Xbox version, as opposed to the 4 on the PS2 version, so you can't do as many tricks. But don't let that stop you, this is a really great game that is 1000 times better than Amped or Dark Summit combined. Buy SSX Tricky and see for yourself.

As with so many sports games, the market provides a choice between simulation and stimulation. If you want the former, pick AMPED. But if you're looking for pure adrenaline, go with SSX TRICKY. You'll quickly become addicted to the way it serves up fantasy.

Most obviously, it's pixel magic. Graphics, with the possible exception of a few brief milliseconds, are stunning. There is, as another reviewer has pointed out, a slight frame-rate drop if a number of characters get bunched up in the same frame. And there are some dimensionality problems with some of the crowds. But both of these are incredibly brief phenomena, which are only rarely encountered. The far more usual reaction you'll have is simply being wowed. I'm particularly impressed with the way that the designers handle the late afternoon sun on the Mesablanca circuit. You actually have to squint to see, just as if you were experiencing the setting Southwestern sun.

More impressive, though, is the game play itself. You'll spend days just trying to find all the nooks and crannies of each track-much less how to make them work point magic for you. The two basic modes of play-whether for show or for speed-provide plenty of challenge until you're ready to take on other players in competitive runs. In fact, the race mode against computer opponents is particularly challenging at the higher levels. Because doing tricks can add speed to your run, you can't just hope to find shortcuts and nose out your competitors. Throw in the fact that computer-controlled characters can change their attitude toward you depending on how you treat them on the course, and the racing element of this game becomes a strategic battle that is often won or lost on a single decision.

Still, TRICKY is not perfect. If you play it at length you'll probably become annoyed most of all at three main features. First, it's musically dead, compared with AMPED. While TRICKY's ambient sound is great, you'll become bored with the main soundtrack-and the inability to use imported mp3's. Second, you'll grow to hate the main interface. It takes forever to set up for a race, and longer to just save your data. There are no fewer than six screens you have to flip through just to save. It's kind of ridiculous that the thing should ask you multiple times if you're sure you want to save. Finally, though, the biggest problem with the game is that it has no facility to save user records. With most sports games for Xbox, extensive stats are saved for each different user profile, meaning that you can brag to your friends as you get better at the game. With TRICKY, though, the best you have are a top 5 for each race and a character profile that's stuck away in a pretty obscure location. So another user could take control of your character and throw your stats with ease-or, worse, deprive you of the joy of improving her. It's a surprisingly big mistake from a company that prides itself on having the premier sports games on the market.

None of this, however, should seriously deter you from buying this highly addicting game. Even if you've never snowboarded a day in your life, you'll find it hard to resist the madness of SSX TRICKY.

This is a great game, no doubt, but IT IS NOT CURRENTLY PLAYABLE ON XBOX 360 and I wish I had known that before I paid money for it. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME UNLESS YOU INTEND TO PLAY IT ON AN ORIGINAL XBOX because it will not work on your modern Xbox 360.

Ok, so the hardcore snowboard simulation fans probably aren't going to like this game. Yes, some of the tricks are over the top, you couldn't actually do them, but that's the point, it's a game. If you wipe out in Tricky you don't go to the hospital. If you are ok with having fun and can do it without complete realism, give this game a shot. I mean come on, is Halo really realistic? And yes, some reviews comment about the frame rate having problems. In my experience it only comes up very rarely and isn't that bad. Only seems to be a minor problem when racing against a high number of other computer racers and having them all on screen at once, just get ahead of them, and no frame rate problems at all. Plus a lot of the fun in this game isn't racing, it's about tricks, and when showing off/tricking you are usually the only one on the course. Just deal with it when you pass the pack on occasion in a race. This game is worth it, lots of replayability, and for less than $ you really can't go wrong.

Flipping boards, unrealistic tricks (what I mean by unrealistic tricks, you can flip boards and swing them around your neck). If you unlock the character named Zoe, you can do a trick called "Near Miss", I think she takes it out from under her and flips the board and does a backflip, grabs onto the back of it and flips around again, and gets back on it. In other words, this game is AWESOME!!!

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I now have 8 Xbox games. Amped is fun and very realistic. Project Gotham Racing is very fun and very realistic. The kids, 5 and 7, love Mad Dash Racing. However, by far, the game that gets the most time in our Xbox, from me and the kids, is SSX Tricky. This game is a massive amount of fun. The long trails with high jumps, tight turns and ice banked sides would be extremely difficult in the real world. In the xbox world, the basic moves in the easy levels are very simple and fun. There is also a large number of tricks that can be done in all levels to satisfy the most advanced player. This is the best game for the Xbox!

Out of all the XBOX games I have, this one is the best. This snowboarding game is a must-buy. World-Circuit mode is so fun and cool! Try collecting all the gold medals in all the levels of the game. It's hard! At least rent the game or better yet, buy it! Here's a list of my opinions of SSX Tricky.
1(needs improvement) to 10(absolutely wonderful)

Graphics 10
Character 9
Price 8
Music 9
Overall 9