Posted by Tom Rippon on Monday, September 26, 2011 ? Leave a Comment?
SSX May Leave You Feel?ing Cold
The SSX series has been miss?ing in action for four years now, with the most recent release in the fran?chise being SSX Blur for the Wii in 2007. Despite rumours of an iPhone adap?ta?tion, the series seemed dead to the world. But like is the case for all good things, a reboot is never out of the ques?tion. And behold! The 2012 release of SSX could well be the reboot the series needs to get back on?top.
SSX is an inter?est?ing return to the series, with real?is?tic and excit?ing tracks for play?ers to snow?board down at high speeds, mas?sive jumps, and sim?ple game?play. As always, you start off in a heli?copter, prepar?ing to jump down into the snow to start thrash?ing (if that?s what snow?board?ers call it). With the press of a but?ton, you leap to the track, and your thrilling run begins.
Despite the whole track being cov?ered in snow, it still looks beau?ti?ful. The moun?tains around you look real?is?tic as you zoom by them, and when you make a sharp turn, the snow that flies from under?neath you looks as though the devel?op?ers have actu?ally ren?dered mil?lions of indi?vid?ual snowflakes. What?s more, each track is based upon real world loca?tions, all of which have been mapped by NASA, mean?ing that not only is the game gor?geous to look at, but it?s also accu?rate in detail.
Some issues that hard?core fans of the SSX series may have, though, is the change in game?play. Whereas the old titles were at least slightly true to the expe?ri?ence of snow?board?ing ? you could wipe out being the main aspect ? in the reboot, it is almost impos?si?ble. Play?ing through two tracks, not once did I eat the snow. Even when I flew off a jump, hit a tree, then a moun?tain?side, then landed on my head, I some?how bounced right back up onto my feet/board, and con?tin?ued down the track. Although this will make the game much more enjoy?able and acces?si?ble for peo?ple who just want a sim?ple and fun game, maybe for par?ties or young chil?dren, it makes the expe?ri?ence seem some?what too easy, and to an extent, a lit?tle arcade-like. It doesn?t seem that the devel?op?ers intro?duced this fea?ture with more ?hard?core? play?ers in mind, instead with the inten?tion of open?ing up the series to new play?ers who had never expe?ri?enced a snow?board?ing game before.
What?s more, the con?trols seem lim?ited. Whilst play?ing the game is easy, the range of tricks that are avail?able seems sti?fling. I found myself, despite my fran?tic button-mashing, repeat?ing my com?bi?na?tion of method-grabs and indie-grabs, which, if you?ve played a snow?board?ing or skate?board?ing game before, are prob?a?bly the go-to sim?ple tricks. Even grind?ing along rails was unavail?able to me, so either the excit?ing tricks have been omit?ted alto?gether, or the game has had a major over?haul in how it?s played com?pared to pre?vi?ous entries in the series. It made the expe?ri?ence seem quite repet?i?tive and bor?ing, and the only rea?son I didn?t get bored with the small range of tricks is because the track was so inter?est?ing and excit?ing, span?ning dif?fer?ent direc?tions and locations.
Despite these flaws, the game is still good fun, and no doubt there will be improve?ments to it as time goes by. The game is not sched?uled to be released until next year, which means there should be plenty of time for the few, but quite irri?tat?ing, creases to be ironed out.
Filed under Eurogamer 2011, News, Playstation 3, Previews, Xbox 360 ? Tagged with 2012, ea big, eurogamer 2011, gaming, news, preview, reboot, ssx
Source: http://bnbgaming.com/2011/09/26/eurogamer-2011-ssx-preview/
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