SSX
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About the Game
SSX is a game in the SSX series of snowboarding titles. A few of the characters from past titles as well as some new ones have teamed up to descend the 9 deadliest mountains. Unfortunately, one of the team members decides he wants all the glory for himself and breaks from the group to make a solo attempt. At its core, the gameplay is similar to other games in the series.
Story & Setting
World Tour is a campaign mode that follows the story of team SSX tackling the 9 deadly descents.
Gameplay & Core Systems
As you perform tricks you acquire points which build up your "Tricky" meter. You can use your Tricky points as boost to increase your speed or you let the meter fill up completely to enter Tricky mode. In general, the objective of survival mode is to reach the bottom of the run without dying or in some tracks finish multiple runs of the track without dying. The three game modes are World Tour, Explore and Global Events. Explore is basically a "free roam" or "play now" mode where players can go to any run and play provided they unlocked it world tour or spent in game credits to unlock it.
Standout Features
- Race: In addition to the standard Race and Trick modes, a new challenge type introduced is Survival mode.
- Headlamp for Darkness, Goggles for Whiteout, Thermal Pack for Cold, Armor for Avalanche/Trees/Rocks, Oxygen tank for Low Oxygen, Ice Axes for Ice and Wing suit for Gravity.
- When a player starts a new run up to 3 Ghosts are loaded into the track with them.
- Ghosts: players can then gauge their performance by how well they are doing against those Ghosts.
- Explore is also a place to compete against your friends scores or times.
- Instead of directly competing with live players in a head to head race they instead compete against replays of other player runs.
- When a player completes a run their path and actions are recorded as "Ghosts".
Modes & Ways to Play
In Tricky mode, you score more points when performing tricks. In addition to extra points you also have unlimited boost as long as you remain in Tricky Mode. There are 9 types of survival modes including; trees, rocks, white out, avalanche, low oxygen, darkness, ice, cold and gravity. These 9 survival mode types are fairly similar and rely on either visibility or health to create a challenge.
Presentation & Atmosphere
Display support includes Progressive Scan (480p) and HDTV 720p. Audio support includes Dolby Digital and DTS.
