From the Manufacturer
Amped 2 is the ultimate freestyle snowboarding experience, offering the largest, most varied trick library of any snowboarding game. Explore vast areas of wide-open, spectacularly rendered real mountains packed with terrain parks designed by world-famous snow park architect, Chris Gunnarson. Play head-to-head with friends in the various multiplayer modes. When you’re ready to take it to the next level, connect to Xbox Live to check rankings and challenge the world’s best virtual riders.
Feel what it’s like to live the life of a real professional snowboarder. Travel the globe, and pull sick tricks in front of sponsors, photographers, and fans. Build your fame, and get photos and demo reels in the latest snowboard magazine or video. Climb to the top ranks of the sport, and become a media superstar ? all to the sounds of more than 300 killer indie tracks.
Features
- Multiple multiplayer modes: Via split-screen, LAN, or Xbox Live, Amped 2 offers a ton of multiplayer challenges.
- Whole new bag of tricks: Amped 2 takes all the moves from Amped and adds new aerial tricks; advanced grabs; a full set of styled-out rail slides, tweaks, stalls, and hand and foot plants; and introduces “Butter,” the center of a new combo system that allows nose and tail manuals to link tricks together. A new tutorial also teaches first timers the basics of freestyle riding.
- World-wide nation of snowboarders via Xbox Live: Who’s got bragging rights? Now, gamers will be able to find out by challenging riders around the globe to see who’s the best. Track stats and check regional and world-wide ladders to see rankings. Trade replays with friends or download new content, including mountains, gear, challenges, and music.
- Deeper career and portfolio: Gamers now have more opportunities to impress the locals and the press with three levels of media challenges: photos, photo sequences, and video demo reels. As fame builds, sponsors award new gear and boards and banners appear on the mountains, displaying new endorsements won.
- Ultimate snowboarding environments: Amped 2 goes global with the addition of new mountains, including Laax, Switzerland, Mt. Buller in Australia, and heli-riding Harris Mountain in New Zealand. Fully rendered 3-D environments bring the mountains alive. Clouds cast shadows that move over the hills, and the runs teem with ambient life and sounds, including other riders, snow-cats, people riding the chairlifts, and working snow machines.
- Professional snowpark design: World-renowned terrain park designer Chris “Gunny” Gunnarson again lends his expertise exclusively to the Amped 2 park design, improving trick placement, adding more trickable objects, and doubling the size of many jumps, making it easier to land in transition.
- More than 300 core indie tracks: Gamers can ride to their own tracks, burnt to the hard disk, but may never feel the need, with a library of more than 300 original cuts to listen to from the latest up-and-coming indie artists.
- Greater character customization: Gamers can create and customize their own rider, including hair style, gear, and customized board graphics. With these selections a personality will come to life as he or she rides.
- Fourteen of the top professionals: Amped 2 features 14 top snowboarding pros, including Jeremy Jones, Mikey LeBlanc, Travis Parker, and Janna Meyen.
Product Description
Amped 2 takes you to the ultimate mountain snowboarding parks, with incredible new challenges, better graphics and new tricks & combos! Go worldwide with competition against snowboarders all over the world — get on Xbox Live and take on players to see how good you really are!
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:58 am
Amped 2 is a pretty good game. It has over 15 mountains, tons of challenges, great graphics, and tons of tricks. Its fun for people who like snowboarding games, and its a blast online, playing with up to 8 people. Here’s what I thought of Amped 2: by Microsoft Game Studios…
1) Single Player: This game is similar to the original in terms of single player. You start out at rank 250, and work your way up to #1. Only this time, there are more challenges, more tracks, and several new ways to board. There are now 8 grabs (instead of the 2 in the first), and the ability to do a butter. What a butter does is connect 2 moves. So you can do a backflip, do a butter, then pull of a grind. It combines the 2 tricks for a better score. This can lead to a lot more customization. Not to mention the extra 6 grabs…
Amped 2 brings back High Score, Media Score, and trying to find all the Snow Men. It also adds finding the 5 gaps, and pulling off 5 special tricks. Once completing all of this, you can try to out-trick 3 pros, win over 3 sponsors, and do 3 photoshoots (very cool). Each thing you complete increases your rank, and once up to a certain rank (say 200), you can unlock a new track.
One thing about the single player is that it can get incredibly hard. Scoring hundreds of thousands of points, pulling off insane tricks, or trying to impress a very tough sponsor. Fortunantly, with each rank come new trick “point(s)”, which you can use to improve your snowboarder. You can increase speed, rotation, air time, blance, and switch (similar to the Tony Hawk series). Spending the points wisely may be the difference between beating and failing the game…
The problem in single player though, is thats its so long, and so hard at times that you just want to give up (like the original). If you do keep trying though, you can beat it. It can just get a bit frustrating at times…
2) Online Play~ The online play is a blast in this game. You can race with up to 8 people in several game types: high score, king of the mountain (pulling off the best tricks on certain hills), and a tournament (which averages out everyones best tricks, high scores, media, etc.. #1, 2, 3…). The cool thing is that you can take you single player character online. So all that work you put in to beating the game is finally worth it. The graphics are great, there are rankings. So online play in this game is awsome. Especially if u love snowboarding
3) Graphics~ The graphics in this game are…amazing. Your character looks almost real (you can customize his or her hair, clothes, snowboard, etc.. And the color of everything). As you board, the snow shoots out from behind. You leave a trail of where you’ve been. When you grind, sparks fly out from the board. When you hit a tree, you knock snow off. The snow looks real, fun, exicting. Its a blast to board through and pave your way. The tricks look cool and realistic. The mountains you race on have birds, trees, tons of snow, camera men, rails, and buildings. It really does look like a boarding mountain, and adds to the game.
Overall this game is a blast. Better than the first, the online play and extremely long single player make this a great game that will last you for awhile. Reccomended for anyone who loves snowboarding (I might wait a month or 2 and wait for the price to drop tho). A good game that won’t dissapoint.
Thx!
obryanstars*
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Amped 2 is the most realistic Snowboarding game there is. It is more on the simulation side of he sport instead of SSX tricky, which is on the Arcade side. So it depends on what kind of snowboarding game you are looking for.
GAMEPLAY: 4.5 Stars
Amped 2 has a great trick system that has a fast learning curve to pull off tricks, but that doesn’t mean you can pull off monster tricks right away. The Career mode is good, you create a character and start with low stats and earn attribute points as you get farther into the game, like spin/flip, ollie, and balance points. There is also a great selection of gear and clothing, brands like Burton and Volcom along with many more. You’ll start unlocking new mountains in the game, real-life mountains around the world. I ride at Big Bear mountain and it looks really good with the real runs!!! Gameplay is definatley challeging but can be mastered with practice. Oh, did I mention XBOX LIVE???
GRAPHICS: 5 stars
Graphics are awesome, mountains are detailed, with ability to ride almost anywhere on them. A mountain I’m familiar with I actually ride the runs that I ride in real life, with the same rails and everything!
UNLOCKABLES: 5 stars
There is real life boards, bindings, boots, goggles, and clothes in the game. along with the real life mountains, this is as realistic as you can get.
FUN FACTOR: 5 stars
Though this is meant to be a simulation snowboarding game, it is very fun and you’ll find yourself playing for hours just to unlock new things and increase your player stats. OH< AND YOU CAN RIDE TO YOUR OWN CUSTOM SOUNDTRACKS. IMAGINE LISTENING TO YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC WHILE SHREDDING DOW THE MOUNTAIN!
If you are looking for a realistic Snowboarding game, get this one. If you are looking for an arcade style of snowboarding game, with avalanches, trees falling in your path, and huge jumps, look elsewhere, possibly SSX Tricky.
June 3rd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
My favorite snowboarding game
I’ve played a few snowboarding games for Xbox, and this one is my favorite by far. The mountains are unique and fun, the challenges (gaps, tricks, snowmen) are cool, and the…
June 3rd, 2009 at 6:40 pm
There are two big snowboarding games on the Xbox – Amped 2 and SSX 3. According to most gamers, SSX 3 is more of an arcade style snowboarding game and Amped 2 is the realistic snowboard simulator. This also explains why SSX 3 usually gets better reviews and has a larger following. Maybe I’m an exception then because I started playing Amped 2 with no previous experience on SSX 3 nor knowledge about pro snowboarding and I quickly became hooked. I have played and replayed so many levels in this game, I now have “Xbox Thumb.” If you’re not familiar with the series, while you can just play a regular run, the best way is to start a career and slowly but surely you increase your snowboarder’s national rank as well as his skills. Besides the numerous fun tracks and mountain runs, there are cool additional games such as photo shoot (you have to follow the hoops for a photo shoot and afterwards, your awesome moves are saved in a film), beat the pro (you follow a pro snowboarder’s computer character downhill and have to one up him), and sponsor races (you have to impress your sponsor by doing certain tricks which that specific sponsor enjoys). I’ve played this game for days and I’m still learning new tricks and ways to interact with the environment. Another cool feature in Amped 2 is the Xbox Live option. You can either compete with other online gamers in a designated time on the same map or just join a server for casual play. I was surprised to find a good amount of people playing the game online. It’s nowhere close to the numbers that play popular Xbox shooters but it’s not a trival amount either. Overall, Amped 2 really surprised me especially because I’ve never been into extreme sports titles. Amped 2 is an addictive title that will keep you coming back to perfect your snowboarding skills.
June 3rd, 2009 at 9:46 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Game
this game is really good me being a snowboarder knew i would love it, its very well done and fun to play, what makes this game even better is it features music from one of the…
June 4th, 2009 at 1:27 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Most Realistic Snowboarding Game
I am a snowboarder and have to say that playing this game is the next best thing to being up on the mountain.
June 4th, 2009 at 2:41 am
4.0 out of 5 stars
Snowboarding @ it’s best!!!
I was a huge fan of the first amped. My friends and I would sit around for hours playing this damn game.
June 4th, 2009 at 9:23 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
i don’t know anything about snowboarding
i got this for christmas and was pleasantly surprised 1. you can ride various mountains. 2. CHEATS i love the games with cheats. 3. create a snowboarder YES 4.
June 4th, 2009 at 9:45 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun, Snow not sun, #1
This game is flippin! You geta create ur own peeps and fun
By Kopasdee Lamnhag
June 4th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Will Carter, you’re an idiot
yeah what I said above. This is NOTHING like Tony Hawk, u ignorant douche.
June 4th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
1.0 out of 5 stars
Remake
This game is at least 3 stars if you don’t own any of the Tony Hauk games. This game is exactly the same except that you’re
on a snowboard and going down hill.
June 4th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Snowboarding Game!
I played this on my friends Xbox and at first I was like man he bought a snowboarding game, but in fact this game is awesome.
June 4th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Amped 2
Okay, I have done real snowboarding & played Amped 2 & I can tell you that this IS a realistic simulation, In snowboarding, you really DO gain speed that fast, you really DO get…