Adreneline with no SNOW!!! (Snowboard Supercross SSX (PS2))

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Product:	Snowboard Supercross SSX (PS2)
Date:	22/09/01 (40 review reads)
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Advantages: Great gameplay, great graphics, smooth and realistic

Disadvantages: What disadvantages?

I'm not kidding when I say that - SSX is the best game I have ever played in my life! Now I don't usually go for snowboarding games, but hey, I'm an impulse buyer, and am I glad that my hand reached for this game!
You can compete in World Circuit or Single Event. In World circuit, you have at first one race to compete in.

Depending on how well you do in this race, you get 'Experience Points' to build up the abilities of your character, and unlock new boards and race venues. Once you've unlocked a race venue in Word circuit, you can then play it in the single event (the 2 player).

All the race venues are superb - there isn't one that I don't like. Every one has its own challenges and highlights - my favourite is Merqury City Meltdown, where you are actually in a city!

You can jump over cars, knock into postboxes, set car alarms off.....amazing. There are 8 in all, although two have to be unlocked (and its hard to get them!), and each one is full of amazing detail and has its own style. Other wicked race venues include an iceberg and a crazy life-size pinball course!

The gameplay is just awesome. You can race (well duh), but also do tricks, and there are so many tricks that you will never get bored - there's always that really hard one that you can't do!
Each character has their strengths and weaknesses, and you are in control of how they develop.

As you win races in World Circuit, you can make them better at certain things.....you could transform a freestyle rider into the fastest character if you wanted to!!! All the characters are great....except for one thing - their voices.
I CANT STAND THEIR VOICES!!! Elise, the tarty Canadian model who thinks she's all that, constantly screams things like, 'Oh, I am perfect!' and 'Sweeter than candy!'.

Also, Kaori, an annoying little Japanese rider who seems to think its okay to wear fluffy bunn
y rucksacks while on the slopes, has a voice that reminds me of nails screeching down a blackboard. In fact, you long for that sound to drown her out!!! (ok, soz, I admit that thats not original, but I can't remember who originally said it).


You get to start off with 4 characters, and then unlock more the more gold medals you win. My favourite by far is Zoe (I actually LIKE her voice. lol.

'Hello Chiropracter!'), the American rebel....i totally identify! Anyway, back to the review.
The graphics are just STUNNING. Every detail has been carefully included and polished to the highest standard - there are hardly any of those horrible jagged diagonal lines, and no buildings/walls that suddenly appear or disappear. Best of all are the little things, such as the showers of snow that get kicked up by your board when you turn a corner, or ride on powdery snow.

The sparks that fly when you crash into a rail. The letters that come spewing out of post boxes when you knock into them. The water that comes spurting out of fire hydrants you've crashed into.

The stunning REALISM of some parts. Granted, the characters don't look real, but they're better than a lot I've seen, and the scenery and tracks themselves...now THATS realism for you.
In short, this game is Addictive with a capital A. When I first got it, I couldn't stop playing it.

I was on my playstation 2 the whole afternoon solid when I was supposed to be revising, and only came off when the controller was wrenched out of my hands and I was steered back into my room. (attempts to sneak back downstairs proved unsuccessful!).

Playstation 2 games cost a heck of a lot of money...unlike so many others, SSX is worth every pound of it.

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