Amped Freestyle Snowboarding Download
Sumiko Fagnoni
Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding is a snowboarding game with a large variety of gear, from shirts and pants to jackets and goggles. Players can choose between many snowboards, each licensed from a different sponsor of the game. The goal of the career mode is two rack up as many points as possible and rise in the ranking. This also rewards skill points which can be used to improve the player character's abilities.
The learning curve is really high. My guess is that most snowboarding titles have a similar difficulty, but what really frustrated me is that everything was going well in my "career" and the challenges quickly became REALLY HARD to beat. I don't have hours to spend to learn a game anymore. So thank god there are cheats to unlock all the mountains. :)
Not helping the learning curve issue is the absence of a real tutorial. Further more, there is no slope designed especially for practice. So you're pretty much on your own, and when you don't know much about snowboarding terms (like me) you've got to do a lot of guesswork and experimentation. The manual isn't really clear on what buttons do what, and you really have to try it by yourself to see the results -- assuming you can achieve all the moves.
The Good
Let me start off by saying that Amped is the most fun, exciting, and realistic snowboarding game I have ever played. When compared to SSX and SSX Tricky, it's more fun. When compared to ESPN Snowboarding, it's more realistic. It's a masterpiece.
That's about it. Really. No, really, it's a near perfect game.
The Bottom Line
As a regular snowboarder, this game makes all other snowboarding games pale in comparison. It's got an engrossing career mode, and a fun Instant Run mode. It's a great game all-around.
Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding provides a completely different snowboarding experience from the likes of the more arcade-oriented SSX Tricky. You begin as little more than an unknown rookie boarder, but by completing various objectives like achieving the three highest scores for a run, competing against a pro boarder, or performing tricks on parts of the courses teeming with photographers and media, you'll begin to advance through the ranks, rising in stature and popularity. Perform well in front of the media and you might even find yourself on the cover of a magazine. As with most any sport, sponsors play a vital role in its and its competitors' success, a fact reflected in Amped. Often, you'll be required to perform particular tricks for a sponsor in order to get them to notice you. Do so, and you'll be rewarded with a variety of new gear, including boards, boots, and goggles. Gamers can even save their replay data and then compete against it in a particular mode.
A mixture of fantasy and real courses, like Stratton and Snow Summit, provide the stomping ground for your burgeoning career. Grinds and "trick tweaks" can be performed with a single button press, while more complicated spins and flips require careful manipulation of the left analog stick. You'll also need to be aware of your rider's orientation at all times, because if not properly aligned your rider will bail at every possible instance. Runs are in fact not timed, allowing players the freedom to do whatever they want, whenever they want.
More than 150 songs are included in the title's soundtrack, covering almost every conceivable genre -- at least those the target audience will most likely enjoy, anyway. Added to this is the ability for players to save their own CDs to the hard drive and then include the tracks in play lists in the title. Songs you don't like can be skipped quickly and easily. A variety of modes -- such as King of the Hill, Best Trick, and High Score -- can be played by multiple players, though strictly in an individual capacity since no simultaneous play is offered.
Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding is an Xbox exclusive, snowboarding video game. It is the first entry in the Amped series. The game released during at the Xbox's launch. Amped is a snowboarding game focused on the tricks, instead of the racing style of play given by Electronic Arts SSX which launched with the Sony PlayStation 2 in the previous year.
Utilizing the Xbox's built-in hard drive, Amped allowed for entire mountains to be loaded simultaneously, permitting completely free-style runs modelled on real resorts, rather than the linear courses of other snowboarding titles.
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