Amped 3 (Xbox 360)

Ahhhh... extreme sports! Ever since the first Tony Hawk game, these games have been staple console titles offering hours of fun in the form of flips, grabs, 360s and the like. Be it skateboarding, BMXIng or snowboarding, I've always had a preference towards snowboarding games, be it the Playstation series SSX, or the original Amped games. It's something about sliding downhill in beautiful mountain environments - far more impressive and enjoyable in my mind than rolling around in a scruffy skatepark! The first thing that strikes you about Amped 3 is that... it's absolutely crazy. I mean, you start off wearing a rabbit costume. This is only ...  Read the complete review

Amped 3 offers a fun experience for fantasy snowboarding.They added a funny but worthless feature of being able to chuck snowballs at other players but it's completely pointless.Camera angles are annoying because at times you don't know where you are going and using the right thumb stick to use the in game camera is just annoying.The game is very frustrating at times, it's not a game for kids because it's a very hard game as far as getting points.Amped 3 has online leaderboards but it does not offer any type of online play.The 2 player is pretty short in detail, you won't really understand how it works until you play the game.There is no multi player split screen where ...  Read the complete review

This is one of my only games that I have for our xbox 360. I have one other, will do a seperate review. This game is brilliant. You can be a male/female character and you kit them out in cool snowboarding gear. You can make them look like you which is quite cool. Then you start on the mountain, you can do the tutorial or skip bits. There is a story so sometimes the game is interupted with little cartoons, animations and your character speaks and gets involved. There are seperate challenges relating to the story that you can do. Or you can just go around completing the little challenges, earning money, points and respects on the ...  Read the complete review

In this snowboarding based game you are wrongly accused of stealing your crews holiday money, they leave you behind to head to Chile being funded by some mysterious backer while you remain in Utah and try to win enough money to join them in Chile. Along the way you team up with a young rock chick called Dandelion. This is a really strange game to play with one of the weirdest storylines I have ever come across, it would not be unreasonable to suggest that the game designers sampled some heavy narcotics when designing this game but the whole weird thing works really well even with the ninjas and the Soviet game show. This game has some excellent ...  Read the complete review