Customer Reviews

Stoked

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

After playing Shaun White and punching myself repeatadly in the face after an hour or so, I was really hoping this game would come through for the snowboarding game genre. I was wrong...sorta.

The good: I really enjoy the graphics and the dynamic weather of the game. It really helps with the immersion. I also like the VASTNESS of the mountains. It really looks and feels like it could be a real mountain (which I think they are), but that sort of hurts it in a way also. I will explain later.

I also like the multiplayer in the aspect of the jump-in jump-out system. Lag wasn't a big issue. But that is really the only good part of it. You may be online with other players, but it still feels lonely on the big mountain. If they had better challenges it may be more entertaining.

The other thing I liked, which really gave me high hopes from the tutorial, is the controls. I enjoy Skate and Skate 2 and the awesome control scheme set out in both. The Stoked controls are similar in the way you ollie, grab and manual, which is outstanding! It made it enjoyable to play the beginning of the game.

The way they inplemented the Hucker and Stylish system is cool too, but to me there really was no incentive to go the Stylish route. In Hucker style you pre-load your spins and perform multiple grabs in one jump. In Stylish you do slow spins with a grab. To get any points it is best to go with Hucker. I was really having a hard time with Style and trying to do a large point combo. Just my opinion, but love how the pre-loading of the spins is implemented.

The Bad: Hmm..Where to start? About an hour into the game I had completed 30 or so challenges on the first mountain, and was sooooo bored. There are only 3 types of challenges from what I have experienced so far.

A high-score challenge doing only the types of tricks marked in the top left part of your screen off the particular ramp (i.e. Get 1500 points by doing a spin grap, or a flip, or just a grab, etc...).

Another challenge type is doing a particular trick off the given ramp or grind (i.e. Stalefish Tucknee, Frontside 540, etc..)This is pretty frustrating as the trick guide in the start menu is really annoying and hard to use at first.

The only other challenge I have encountered is the Pro Challenge which is unlocked by doing certain actions during your session down the mountain. I stumbled onto this by accident, as it wasn't clear in the tutorial and who reads the instruction booklets nowadays anyways? lol. This challenge pits you against the pro in a downhill session where you repeat tricks and get a higher score than the said pro. I HATE these types of challenges. Especially when every trick isn't known. This is just my opinion.

The challenges get old real quick considering you repeat the same challenge types over and over and over again on the mountain with only a changing ramp or grind. Grinding is frustrating also. The physics behind it bother me.

As with the physics overall. It feels alright, but when you think you are hauling arse and see a potential big jump ahead, prepare for it, ollie and only get about 2 feet of air and that double backflip turns into a half flip to bail (which the bails are also really lame)you start shaking your head and wondering "WHY ME?!".

I really wanted to like it and did for the first hour or so. I just couldn't overcome the boredome I felt. It is just a game with really big mountains with pretty snow and solid controls. I suppose it is worth the 37.99, but if I had a demo I wouldn't have bothered purchasing. Just my opinions, but it mirrors some of the more prominent reviewers.

This is by far the best and most fun game on the market. For those who have played the Skate games then it will be extremely easy to get used to this game as the controls are very similar as is the overall playability of the game. There are many different mountains from around the globe as the levels. As mentioned, you do different challenges that are comparable to the ones from Amped 2. Speaking of which, in my opinion was the best game until this one came out and still holds down the solid number two spot. You are able to ride any part of the mountain and do all sorts of tricks. You can go fast and huge! Once you get 50,000 points on every run you unlock the ability to fly the helicopter for that mountain! This lets you fly around until you find a line that looks sick and jump out and ride it! There are tons of cool features but the main thing is this game is just freakin awesome. The best, most fun snowboarding game out there.

Alright, I got this game because I really needed something different. I've driven for thousands of miles, head-shot millions of people, boosted countless cars... I needed a change.

I like Stoked. It definitely gave me a change of pace. The graphics are good and more importantly, they're thorough - your guy gets covered with snow when he wipes out, or when it's snowing hard. He shakes his head when he wipes out - it's creative and realistic. Supposedly the weather is dynamic - I've seen it be cloudy, then turn sunny. Every once in a while it snows, but not too often. I haven't seen a lot of options for customizing, but I hear that improves as time goes on.

The mountains are HUGE, but tend to be somewhat sparse. You feel like you ski forever with nothing to jump from. The problem is I'm trying to look for obvious jumps, when many point-grabbing activities in Stoked aren't readily obvious. You gotta get a little more creative. The option is there, but for a rookie, I'm just not used to it yet.

The biggest problem I have with Stoked is that I've never snowboarded in my life. The tricks all have titles, and I've never heard of them before. The manual or in-game "bible" helps a little bit, but simple terms like "switch" mean nothing to me. I have no idea what it's asking me to do. I go online to try to find help, and find other players getting laughed at because they don't know what the terms mean. That's bull. I could talk circles around these people when it comes to automotive terminology - can't we just be nice and answer the questions?

I too found the first few hours to be boring - and challenging - as I learned the basics, both trick-wise and terminology-wise. I've read that the game opens up after your first 66 fame points, which I just earned. So we'll see what happens.

If you're a snowboarder, you'll probably like this game. If it's as Greek to you as it is to me, you might have trouble getting into it.

5/5 - Ive never played a Perfect Snowboarding game... But this definitely is the best one I've played in this Genre. Pushing the boundaries of realism and maintaining great playability, has earned this title a 5/5 in my book.

THE CONTROLS work great. They can be adjusted based on if you like nice tight carving or slow steady shreading. Some people have had problems, but don't notice that how it handles is dependent on the setup of your snowboard and the angles you can adjust on the bindings. This gives your character a different stance and weight distribution and effects overall handling

THE GRAPHICS are top notch, watching the sunrise from a shrine on top of Mt. Fuji is quite spectacular.

THE WEATHER SYSTEM adds a whole new level of depth to the Genre. You check the new snowfall on the mountains and see if it's still snowing or if it's gonna be a nice sun shining day on the mountain. Having the snow level rise and fall based on this make the runs somewhat unexpected each day... That rock you plastered yourself on a week back... might be under 2 feet of snow now and you will be zipping right over it wondering where the heck it was!

THE CHALLENGES can get a bit repetitive, but it also isn't exactly the same each time, there are 3 different types of challenges in the game. Bust out certain named tricks off of a specific mountain Feature, Do certain type of tricks (ie: grab, spin, flip) of a specific feature, Land a chain of tricks off specific mountain features; but each one is a new run and style for the most part.
Photoshoots, sponsor challenges, and Pro rides, are definately something that breaks that repetition though.

Overall this is a Stellar Snowboarding title worthy of much more praise then it has been given.
If you enjoy a nice realistic snowboard title, do yourself a favor and pick this one up... and being launched at $29.99... you can't go wrong!

you start off on a tutorial mountain but after that you can just free ride and do basically what ever you want, it is amazingly fun and has very god graphics

If you have played the Skate series (Skate 2) and were looking for a similar game about snowboarding, you might have checked out Shawn White's game, but Stoked is truly the Skate of snowboarding... sort of.

The controls are very, very similar to Skate, you manipulate the sticks and hold down buttons to do grabs, spins, flips and grinds. The controls feel very nice, and they are easy to learn, but hard to master.

The campaign flies you to a mountain where you can roam freely and complete challenges, most of the time these want you to do a series of tricks, or just score a certain amount of points off a certain jump. You get points from completing challenges, that will allow you to unlock different mountains. The campaign starts off pretty slowly, but eventually you will get sponsored, where you can do some more exciting competitions and photo-shoots.

You can get gear through your sponsors, and fully customize yourself. The customization is not as good as Skate's, its a bit more basic, but it still allows you to customize your look.

The graphics are nice, the mountains are fully rendered, the snow looks great. The character animations look good most of the time, but they can look a bit stiff at times. It really captures what it is like to be riding in the backcountry of a large mountain, its truly spectacular.

The sound is very good too, the sound of snow crunching under the board, wind, the sound of you falling right into a tree, it all sounds great. The music is even better, there is a wide variety of music, and you can switch songs very easily using the D-pad.

The multiplayer is pretty good, but because of how large the mountains are, you can still feel pretty isolated even with 6 other people. Its fun just riding around, or you can suggest games for your group to do, these are pretty fun, ranging from getting points, to races, to a game called "the snow is lava" where you try not to touch the ground.

After you finish the campaign, you probably won't want to try it again, it does offer quite a bit of gameplay though. The nice graphics and gameplay make it seem pretty polished, but it can be pretty slow at times, not as fast-paced as Skate or similar games. A fun game, great for snowboarders and non-snowboarders alike.

I absolutely love this game. The best part is style vs. huckster which really adds to the replay value. If you are a fan of SB games, thhen you owe it to yourself to get this game.

Also, I simply cannot wait for the Big Air Edition. Count me in for that, too!

As a snowboarder, I feel this may be the best snowboarding game made yet. I think people who don't really snowboard or who only stick to the terrain parks may not appreciate the game to the fullest. It does take a loooooong time to get into some of the more interesting challenges and some of them are extremely difficult-- but that is a good thing!

Stoked was the first snowboard game that I purchased for the xbox 360. Since then I have purchased several others. It has the best control layout of any of the games (similar to Skate, you use the analog for the most part) it is very fluid and certainly makes it possible to string out some excellent combos/tricks. Having said that it is one of the few bright spots in the game. My main disappointment was that (at least IMO) it is not very fun overall. It takes forever to unlock anything, and there is very little story wise to keep things interesting. The graphics are ok at best, the snow effects are good but the mountains/levels seem rather repetitive at times. Although it is a snowboarding game, sometimes it helps to have different challenges or mini-games to break up the monotomy. Stoked has none of these. Even the choices you have for equipment at the beginning of the game are very boring and limited. Also you never see skiers or boarders unless you are near a challenge and even then they are little more than stick figures that wave at you. The soundtrack is good (I especially enjoy the opening music) but some of the songs are bizarre at times. All in all it has the best actual snowboarding mechanics of any game I've played, but as a game itself it really doesn't have much to make me want to play it repeatedly, unlike Amped 3 which is a great game in and of itself. In summary:

Pros: Controls/mechanics
Nice Day/Night and weather effects
A large variety of tricks/grabs
Interesting soundtrack
Somewhat realistic gameplay

Cons: Uninspired graphics
Repetitive gameplay
Poor unlockables
Bland story

Ok if u are looking to find a snowboarding game for xbox 360 your best bet is Stoked but first I will tell u my story about why I got Stoked! I had touble choosing Shaun White Snowboarding or Stoked. I was going to get both but I Looked into both of them first. My friend has a ps3. He also has Shaun White Snowboarding so I went to his house to try it out. I was like "WOW this is a great game"! I asked my friend if he liked it but he told me "NOO"! He knew I had a xbox 360 so he told me to get Stoked instead. So I went home and like my friend said "Buy Stoked instead" and I did. When I ordered my game half though the week. I felt that Am I wastin my money on this game? When It came in the mail I was so happy! I played for a couple of hours and I was happy that I got Stoked! I ski in real life and my coz is a snowboarder. I think Stoked is as real as it gets!!!! When I play it I wish I can be at the real mountains but I can't...lol! This is what I like about Shaun White Snowboarding. It is a great game! Good soundtrack, chair lifts feel just like the real thing, lots of jumps, The best part is that u can take your snowboard off and throw snow balls at people too! NOW Stoked. I like the real time weather it does change thing ALOT!!! The snow looks great. feels like u go faster in Stoked than Shaun White Snowboarding. Soundtrack is alright u might not know any of the music. The last thing I have to say that If they make Stoked 2 (they should) they should put in the game skiing because so u can change between skiing and snowboarding! If u get Stoked U wont be disappointed (unless u like fake snowboarding). But its all up to u.