SSX On Tour

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Product Features

• Fly down the all-new tracks, and master the new monster tricks for both boarding and skiing
• Revolutionary new speed-sensitive cameras, motion blur, and controller feedback -- you'll feel the speed as you whip past the crowd
• Develop your skills and your rep as you go from slope-side wannabe to a black-diamond-dominating rockstar
• Experience life on the mountain like never before with fresh art, pumping music, grown-up bosses, and new Monsters of Metal and Style Blaster events

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AOEUOI
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches ; 4.5 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 8, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,743 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

From the Manufacturer

Reach breakneck speeds, catch huge air, and become an icon with SSX: On Tour. Create a rider or skier and build a career as you progress from a slope-side wannabe to a black-diamond-dominating rockstar. Compete for medals or just tear up the massive new mountain, but make sure you look good doing it because your reputation is always on the line. Pull off jaw-dropping monster tricks to out-style your competitors while hurtling down the slopes at supersonic speeds. You create the hype--the hype creates a legend in SSX: On Tour.

Features:

• The Tour: Create a snow-slicing, gravity-defying mountain icon and dominate the all-new shred challenges to earn your invitation to the tour. Climb the ranks of the circuit and become the ultimate black-diamond rockstar.
• The Fastest Game on Snow: fly down 12 new tracks and whip past the snowplowing masses as you experience breakneck speeds with revolutionary new speed-sensitive cameras, motion blur, and controller feedback.
• Huge Air and Monster Tricks: show off your skills by catching big air and throwing down massive new snowboarding and skiing monster tricks.
• The Culture Comes Alive: experience life on the mountain like never before with fresh art, pumping music, grown-up bosses, and new Monsters of Metal and Style Blaster events.

Product Description

Reach breakneck speeds, catch huge air, and become an icon with SSX On Tour. Create a rider or skier and build a career as you progress from a slope-side wannabe to a black-diamond-dominating rockstar. Compete for medals or just tear up the massive new mountain, but make sure you look good doing it because your reputation is always on the line. Pull off jaw-dropping monster tricks to out-style your competitors while hurtling down the slopes at supersonic speeds. You create the hype - the hype creates a legend in SSX On Tour. Building on the critically acclaimed gameplay of the SSX franchise, SSX On Tour features all-new player customization that gives you the chance to join The Tour. SSX On Tour is packed with all-new highly detailed tracks, new stylish player customization options, new monster tricks, and multiplayer options.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One step forward, two steps back, October 14, 2005

By	Brian Forrester "Brian Forrester, Noblesville IN" (Indianapolis, Indiana) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

Before I get started, let me just say that I really enjoy the gameplay of this game. I'm not, however, a big fan of the new menu system. I really liked the system implemented in SSX 3. I liked the 'Big Mountain' feel. I liked the ability to freeride from the top of Peak 3, to the bottom of Peak 1 if that was what I so desired. I loved the above the treeline skiing at the tops of the three peaks in SSX 3. All of those are missing in On Tour. I could really care less about the art work and character customization as decried by other reviewers...I play the games for the game play, bottom line. Let's do a pro/con breakdown, shall we?

Pros:

- The addition of skiiers! I'm a skiier, I've never ridden a snowboard in my life. I was really excited at the news of this addition. I just find the mechanics of skiing to be more aesthetically pleasing than snowboarding. Plus the additional tricks you can do on skis adds more variety to the game. You can take off or land switch (skiing backwards), and switching between the two is a simple flick of the Right analog stick.

- The courses (levels?) have a bigger feel to them than did the courses in SSX 3. There just seem to be an almost infinite number of lines you can run in any given course.

- The addition of ski patrol and other skiiers, outside of those competing against you. Anyone that skis or rides knows the risk of patrol pulling your lift ticket for speeding! Plus I've always loved playing "Kiddie Slalom" on the snow. Now I can do it on a video game! NOTE: On the real mountains, ski with respect for others. Always remember that the person downhill has the right of way (as they don't have eyes in the backs of their heads). Always ski and ride with respect to the safety of yourself and others!

- The trick stick makes the Monster Tricks (uber tricks on SSX 3) much easier to pull off. While they weren't all that difficult in SSX 3, they're even easier now.

- A crap load of available tasks. Collect items, knock over skiiers, avoid patrol...I haven't played enough of the game to list them all. Again, a lot of variety in the gameplay.

- Gear made by actual manufacturers. It's cool to be able to pick out a set of the K2 Public Enemies, or the Made 'n AK boards. I wish, though, that more ski and snowboard manufacturers were represented. It looks like Line and K2 were the only ski gear available. I could be mistaken though.

Cons:

- The menu system, to me, just isn't as slick as that found in SSX 3. I just liked the big mountain feel. The ability to transport to different sections of the mountain on a whim.

- The damned audio playing backwards when levels are loading. I hope I'm not the only person that finds reverse audio to be creepy.

- I liked the DJ and the music in SSX 3. It was just so well put together and everything just fit with everything else. Even the intro to SSX 3 was almost chill inducing, not quite like Gran Turismo, but it was one of the best intros to a video game.

- The menu art work. While this doesn't really bother me, as it doesn't detract from the actual game play, it isn't what I would call beautiful. A lot of the game's aspects seem like they're aimed towards the park and pipe punks.

- The depth of the characters. As one other reviewer mentioned, the characters all seem pretty generic. While this doesn't bother me much, it's still a slight shortcoming.


Yeah, there were some slight disappointments to the game when I first fired it up. That all ended when I started my first race, with two sticks attached to my feet rather than one. Some of the presentation is a step backwards, in my opionion, but the true stars in the game, the levels themselves, shine every bit as brightly as the previous iterations in the SSX franchise.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars What in the name happened with SSX on Tour, EA?, December 29, 2005

By	P. Hardy (USA) - See all my reviews

Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This is just a simple overview of how the game looks and feels, because I am no where near beating this game -- assuming you can actually beat SSX ON TOUR. When you see the advertisements for this video game your probably thing the cartoonish art is just for advertisement purposes. But the moment you pop the game into your PSII you discover the ugly truth which will haunt you for the rest your days so long as you continue to play SSX:OT. The horrible cartoonish art I haven't seen since I've looked at the edges of my brother's notebooks plagues the game. Scribbles and poorly drawn characters are what greet you when this game begins.


There are three modes within the game itself:

1): The Tour - The supposed story mode of the game.

2): Quick Game - A free ride around the snowy mountain side, wherever they may be.

3): EXTRAS - Cheat codes, credits, and other things that aren't directly tied into the game until after you beat it.


"THE TOUR" Begins you on an airless storyline of bringing a snowboarder or "Skier" --A new feature in the SSX series -- to stardom if you complete all the challenges and ON TOUR Modes. Along the way you will be challenged by the original SSX characters (Physmon - Nate - Kaori - Elise Riggs - Mac, etc), who had have also taken a step down in the looks department as opposed to their design in SSX3. None of them really look like their former selves (though I know this is what happens you use better graphics but this time its just plain insulting): Kaori looks nothing like a Japanese female (she also lost the quirky voice-over that spewed Japanese at you as you raced) and appears as though she got a plastic surgery job done on her nose and lips which stick out more than her overall face. Nate looks like some bum that just crawled off his couch to snowboard, stringy hair, gruff face (as before), and clothes that resembles Mac's wardrobe from SSX3. Mac has lost the charming appearance he once had, donning a much bulkier, blockier appearance, a bright green/yellow stripe shirt and a shaven head poorly hidden by his baseball cap. Elise looks pretty much the same, just a bit on the beefy side if anything with shorter blonde hair. And the major change that really got me riled up was Physmon: He had someone reverted from being Black (or African-American respectfully) to a Caucasian man donning a white "wife-beater" Sleeveless shirt, tattered pants and a flaming red mowhawk. This in my eyes was a major offense! They didn't even keep the voice actor used in SSX3. So far, The Tour mode does not allow you to use these characters, only characters you make with race and gender adjustments -- aka Original characters created by you the gamer. While this is a nice touch, I would've liked to play with the original cast and saved the "create a character" for afterwards.


The major problems with this gameplay is that its insultingly easy to beat your opponent to 1ST place. The Challenges are short lived moments in the game at best: Most of the objectives will have you collecting items -- pulling off "Monster Tricks" (which has become far easy to pull off unlike SSX3 which made you work for your "Monster Trick") - and grinding rails. The items part of the game where you buy experience, clothes, hair styles, gear and boards/ski's, is a step down in the earning department. Simple things like T-shirts cost a lot more than you've like. Another problem everyone's probably expressed is the lack of touring other places in SSX-ON TOUR. You seem to be stuck in the same blessed place throughout the game. The controls are clunky and unresponsive at best. It takes pressing down hard on the Triangle button to get the character to perform a simple forward/backward flip before crashing to the ground in defeat. While maneuvering controls have gotten better, there are far too many trees and buildings clustered together in this game posing as an obstacle your sure to hit.


The Graphics are a major upgrade from SSX3, environment wise. The snow looks a lot better with the loss of depth, the major problems with the look and feel of SSX:OT is that the atmosphere of the game reminds you too much of the AMPED snowboarding series (which also holds a reputation for the "punker" snowboard theme) with the unresponsive controls and clunky behavior of the characters, along with their appearance as well. The music has fallen into what I like to call "EA's Modern Rock/pop/metal cursefad" that has plagued so many of their present games (Most notably their racing games, Need for speed and Burnout. Their sports series too).





Gone is the wide variety of techno/actual-rock/pop/dance music from SSX3 and SSX-Tricky. It is replaced with modern rock/pop/heavy metal bands that should've been shot for playing their instruments so badly and singing so off key. Modern rock fans will naturally disagree with me, but being someone whose been here beyond 2002 (when this fad really got going), I know good rock music and the occasional heavy metal music when I hear it.


All in all, SSX ON TOUR is for those unfamiliar with the SSX series because in all honesty this feel like a branch off from the series itself and a new game entirely for the SSX-uneducated. Another thing is to wait for it to become a cheaper priced game under $20/30.00. --- [a 3 out of 5]

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars this game is a Disappointment , November 11, 2005

By	R. bell "stonerdyke" (usa) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

Like everyone else has been saying- SSX3 was the best.
I don't really like the new "rockstar" theme with the Napoleon Dynamite notebook scribbled menu system. Maybe they chose this theme cuz it was easier (and cheaper) to make than realistic graphics. but it is different, so I'll give them that.
but what was even more different was the ability to actually snowboard to the lodge, or whatever different event you wanted to do in SSX3 which was a whole lot funner than the bland menu system of other games, so I don't understand why they regressed.

And the name of the game is "On Tour" isn't it? So you'd think they'd have several different mountains in several different countries around the world that you could unlock and shred- but no... you have just one mountain and you shred the same tracks the whole game- the only thing that gets harder are the time and trick score requirements.

Another thing I don't like is the attributes. They cost ALOT of money, theres only one for each attribute and they really don't make that much of a difference, if any at all. What does, is the different boards. Which is one of the only good things about this game and the only improvement on SSX3 its got. I miss building up the skill for each rider. This new game is so much less gratifying in that sense. You don't ever feel like you've improved.

Maybe my game has a glitch or something (its not scratched) but theres a lot of stuff that just doesnt make sense. I've already become a "Legend" but for some reason, "Rookie" and other lower events keep showing up, that I've already completed. and when you go to "Past Events", you can't redo events to get a better score- well, you can redo them, but it doesnt give you money or count for anything. Also, it's cool, cuz you make make "mix tapes" of the music you like and not have to hear the music you don't. Only, they don't work for some reason. No matter how many times I try to make the game stop playing that stupid "god killed the queen" song (yah, it USED to be cool) it keeps playing it anyway.

It's cool how theres no out-of-bounds on this game though, like there was on SSX3 (that got annoying). but the rails are no easier.

The skis are alright. They're kind of gangly tho, and harder to control (which, I guess, is realistic).

And I don't really like the new "trick stick". Yeh, I could see how it'd be easier, but its less accurate. Trying to do a trick, then the "half circle" to tweak it doesn't always end up as what you were trying to do.

So, overall, I'm dissapointed. This game is like a much cheaper version than past games. It's like this game should have come out before SSX3. We've been gyped! RENT IT- DONT BUY IT! you'll finish it before its even due.....

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