Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding
by Microsoft

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Product Summary

• Jib, bonk or spin between runs to hidden areas and cool jump sequences,
• Mountains are alive with crashing boarders, flying pros and raoming photographers.
• Premier snowboarding resorts are recreated with perfect snow conditions and jaw-dropping built-for-Xbox graphics.
• Unlock international fantasy venues designed by world-renown terrain architect Chris Gunnerson.
• Pull insane tricks in front of roaming photographers and camera crews to get your face on video and magazine covers.

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• Electronic Gaming Monthly
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Video Game Reviews of Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding

Customer Review: The Midget
Summary: 5 Stars

Description of Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding

Career mode is divided into four parts: High Score, Media, Sponsor, and Pro Ride. High Score challenges the player to pile on as many tricks as possible. Media requires the player to execute tricks at certain points where a photographer is waiting. Sponsor mode focuses on a particular group of tricks. For instance, one sponsor may favor grinds over airs, so players better make sure to grind everything in site to win the sponsor's gear. This mode is also the least forgiving, as it's the only one where mistakes detract from the overall score. Finally, Pro Ride has the player follow and out-trick one of 17 professional riders in a follow-the-leader manner. Multiplayer mode allows up to four players to participate in a round robin tournament with numerous selectable conditions.

Graphically, the game isn't as sharp as EA's SSX Tricky, nor are the physics and pace as extreme. That isn't to say the game looks bad. The real-life locations of Stratton, Brighton, Snow Summit, and more look great. The soundtrack features more than 50 songs in a wide array of genres, including electronica, emo, hip-hop, rap, punk, ska, and reggae. Players can also opt to use their own soundtracks off the Xbox hard drive, letting them snowboard to Journey and Air Supply as nature intended. --Raymond M. Padilla

Pros:

• Excellent career mode
• Strong physics and trick system
• Vast soundtrack

• Might be too slow for typical extreme-sports fans
• Weaker graphics than the competition
• Boring sound effects

Trick off of a huge variety of jumps and rails on wide-open mountain runs. Jib, bonk, or spin between runs to hidden areas and cool jump sequences designed for trick combos. Mountains are alive with crashing boarders, flying pros, and roaming photographers.

Ride the runs on real mountain resorts: Utah's Brighton, Vermont's Stratton, and California's Snow Summit. See jaw-dropping mountain graphics built for Xbox. If reality isn't your thing, you can unlock international fantasy venues designed by world-renowned terrain architect Chris Gunnerson.

Earn exposure points to become one of the world's top-10 snowboarding media superstars. Pull tricks in front of roaming spectators to gain exposure--multipliers depend on who sees you and how good you look.

Make your gameplay choices on the mountain, not in a menu of disconnected events. Start at the top of a peak and decide how you want to win.

Jump between 120 different runs packed with rails, kickers, and half-pipes, each with six unique challenges, hidden areas, and a rotating stream of spectators. When you're not showing off, taunt or throw snowballs at your friends in the freestyle multiplayer competition.

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