Comments on: Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:56:31 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
I got AMPED when i got this, you will too
I got this game along with Mat Hoffman pro BMX 2 for my first games for the Xbox, and damn, amped blows Mat Hoffman clear out of the water.

By: Ginny

Ginny — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:11:44 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
You cannot continue to live with out this game.
This game is awesome. It may take a few minutes to learn the controls but after that it is all good. You can board to your own soundtrack.

By: Idonia

Idonia — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:04:09 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
A reviewer from a non-skier, non-boarder
HiI don’t ski, don’t snowboard, and I’ve never played games of this genre before. I recently got interested in SSX3 from seeing a review about it online; so I tried out a…

By: Oratilwe

Oratilwe — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:43:31 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
At last a CORE snowboarding game!!!
I would just like to thank Microsoft for creating such an incredible game. I’ve waited so long for a true core snowboarding game like this to come along, the wait was definitely…

By: Girolamo

Girolamo — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:57:44 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the best if you are the patient type.
I personally enjoyed this game a lot more than any of the SSX games. The tricking is simpler but deep, the soundtrack rocks (with over 200 songs) although i use the custom…

By: Damali

Damali — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:22:00 +0000

I've owned Amped for four weeks (over 60 hours of play), and I rented SSX Tricky for five days (over 20 hours of play). I'm a skier, not a boarder, and I love Amped. SSX Tricky has its good points too, but with that game the characters break dance on their boards and can't wander off the given path. In Amped the boarder is firmly attached to his bindings, and behaves more realistically. If you want a racing game with cartoon-like characters, go for SSX Tricky. If you want a fun single-player game get Amped. One funny addition in Amped is the taunts from the other boarders when you bite a trick: 'You dropped your pocket!'

Pros:
- Fun! High replay value. Either go for high scoring tricks, or wander the mountain looking for snowmen to run over. Or ride the entire length of a ski lift cable.
- More realistic physics than SSX Tricky (OK, so no one can jump 50 feet high), but you can stop anywhere on the mountain, and pick your own path down the mountain.
- Beautiful graphics: whisps of snow, shadows, sparkling snow, hard ice
- Customize the background music to CD's you rip to the XBox hard drive

Cons:
- No simultaneous multi-player: you take turns.
- No time challenges, no gate racing
- Tough learning curve if you have Tony Hawk trick habits

By: Naeva

Naeva — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:11:43 +0000

1.0 out of 5 stars
Worst game ever made.
At least give us a decent two player mode.

By: Frieda

Frieda — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:02:26 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
Amped
This is by far the best snowboarding game on the market. It is easy to play and the concept isn’t hard to grasp at all.

By: Damaris

Damaris — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:47:56 +0000

4.0 out of 5 stars
My first Xbox sports game
I recently bought an Xbox and am slowly building up my game collection. I had a demo of “Amped2″ and loved it.

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:17:28 +0000

This is not a game so much as an excercise in addiction control and you will fail! The need to play this tugs at you every few minutes when your XBox is turned off. This is by far the best XBox launch title other than the magnificent Halo. But the difference between the two is that Amped has a tremendous amount of replay. Graphically this title go's far beyond anything else ever made. It's also one of the first XBox titles to take advantage of the built in Hard Drive by storing all the environmental data such as Trees and backgrounds. So there will be literally no popup or distance fogging commonly used to improve frame rates. You can literally see forever particularly on the huge mountains such as the Altibahn. There are so many different levels of bump mapping and textures on the snow alone it makes your head spin. There is plowed snow, Poweder, lined, Ice, packed, you name it.
Gameplay is where it's at though. This is the way Snowboarding should be. Total freestyle. Not some SSX clone running down unreal tracks and knocking others down along the way. This is all about choosing your own line, and pulling incredible moves.
Do yourself a favor, if you own the XBox, buy this now. This truly shows why the Xbox is the most powerfull console created.

By: Prita

Prita — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:50:52 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
AWESOME
I like this game a lot because it lets you do flips and not many other games let you do that!

By: Idella

Idella — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:51:44 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars The Midget
It is so fun it is to fun I would buy it it has great graphics it is fun for all ages Fun for hours and Hours it is the best game eaver made from a company and is for two players...

By: Padma

Padma — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:12:44 +0000

I just purchased the game and I absolutely love the game. The graphics like all x-box games look like your watching a live match it looks realistic and plays realistic. The game is fun, fast, but very hard too control if you are new to the snowboarding genre. In my opinion the game has a steep learning curve. this is definitely 5 stars