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The Midget

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It is so fun it is to fun I would buy it it has great graphics it is fun for all ages Fun for hours and Hours it is the best game eaver made from a company and is for two players
P.S. It is cheap only at Amazon!

MIDGET

THE BEST SNOWBOARDING GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: March 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This snowboarding game is the best! It has real resorts that look exactly like they do in real life. I had just got back from Brighton, Utah and I bought this game and I saw that their terrain park looked exactly like it did in the game. This is a realistic game so you can't do like 1800's or like 18 backflips. If you're a snowboarder than u will love this game!!

AWESOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: September 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I like this game a lot because it lets you do flips and not many other games let you do that!

My first Xbox sports game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: February 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I recently bought an Xbox and am slowly building up my game collection. I had a demo of "Amped2" and loved it. However I found "Amped" for a good price and thought I would try it. I must say that it is fantastic and very addictive. There are quite a lot of controls to learn to really do well on high scores but it is a lot of fun learning to play. The hardest part for me is the rails. With a limited budget, I have to start with some of the older games, and this one is well worth the money. It is hilarious to try a front flip and end up landing on your head. Great game.

Amped

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: January 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the best snowboarding game on the market. It is easy to play and the concept isn't hard to grasp at all. I tried it at my friends house and it took me 2 runs to understand how to do backflips and corkscrews. It is an awesome game because it is so different from the other snowboarding games where it is possible to pull off quadruple backflips but in amped it is so close to real that even the landing is sensitive. This is by far the best game I have played on Xbox so far but it is also one of the only games for Xbox I have played. So I recomend this to anyone who likes snowboarding and having fun on games.

Worst game ever made.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 13
Date: December 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

At least give us a decent two player mode.

One of the best if you are the patient type.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I personally enjoyed this game a lot more than any of the SSX games. The tricking is simpler but deep, the soundtrack rocks (with over 200 songs) although i use the custom soundtrack feature when i play. The graphics blow most other snowboarding games out of the water, and the particle effects are perfectly done. The sound is also very well done. Aside from the good soundtrack (which is a rare thing in a game), there are many sound effects that add to the game: The noise of the wind blowing in your face, the sound of your board carving, and my favorite...anyone you pass on the slopes will have something to say to you, and they rarely repeat themselves. The cameramen and other boarders say things according to what you are doing when you are near them. For example: if you bust a 30,000 point trick near a camera guy he might say "Wow! that was sick, this will be in the mags".....and a snowboarder might say "Hey can you teach me that later?". If you pull of maybe a 15,000 point trick or so, they will say something like "Hey that was good but hit the sweet spot next time" or "Yo you're gettin there, bend your knees more". Then if you fall, coming from a camera guy, it would be something like "Come on man! i can't use that" or from a boarder "Hey wheres all that talent you were sprayin' about?" then of course they will occasionally throw out a blunt "YOU SUCK!"
One of the only downsides to this game is that if you want to get anywhere in the career mode, you will have to spend sometimes hours on the same challenge, especially in the later levels...the game is easy to pick up and play for fun, but EXTREMELY hard to master for the sake of scoring huge tricks for media points and high scores etc. Also i found that the trick scoring system is very random. I do the same trick 2 times on 2 different runs (so its not worth any less) and the first time is might give 35,000, then the second time it would say 9,000. It bugs me when i need to pull off a sick trick at the end of a level to beat a chalenge and i bust a triple corkscrew with an indy to tweaked stalefish and it slaps me with a 7,000.
I really didnt have any problems with the difficulty because i have a lot of patience, but if you get pissed off easily i would suggest renting this game first. However it does make for a very long and in-depth game if that is what you r looking for.

At last a CORE snowboarding game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I would just like to thank Microsoft for creating such an incredible game. I've waited so long for a true core snowboarding game like this to come along, the wait was definitely worth it. The quality, graphics, and realism of this snowboarding sim is off the hook. I've tried snowboarding sims on other platforms and they don't even come close to the quality and realism that Amped offers. The graphics are simply beautiful. From the elaborate, interactive environments, to the breathtaking backgrounds, this game does NOT skimp on quality. The sound is probably the best I've heard in any video game, all the sounds are so realistic to real life snowboarding. When photographers yell at you to get a shot and you blow by them their yelling voice fades away, so cool, and so life like.
This game is packed with an arsenal of real tricks, Real pro riders and gear to select, HUGE trails to explore, Tons of hits, hips, tables, and jibs to tear up, and a soundtrack of over a 100 songs. If you snowboard and truly love the sport, buy this game! If you don't snowboard, but want a snowboarding game, buy SSX or something.

A reviewer from a non-skier, non-boarder

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: October 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Hi
I don't ski, don't snowboard, and I've never played games of this genre before. I recently got interested in SSX3 from seeing a review about it online; so I tried out a friend's demo disk to see if it was something I'd like. It was actually quite fun.

So then I decided to look around to see what other snowboarding games are out there besides SSX.

I went thru all the reviews on the web comparing SSX, Amped, Dark Summit, Transworld, etc... and eventually.... settled on Amped.

It has been reported that Amped is too difficult. Since I have only played SSX3 for about 15 minutes, I can tell you that the folks who say Amped is too difficult are very likely those who have played the SSX series extensively and are used to the simplicity with which one can do outrageous stunts. Since I've never really played those games I don't have that bias.

So is it too difficult? No. It is no more difficult than any racing game where you will spend some time learning all the controls.

In comparing my brief exposure to SSX3 and Amped here's my summary:

- SSX3 has too short a draw distance. I found myself trying to look up and off the screen to see where I was going. Amped has very very long draw distance making it very easy to see where you are going.

- SSX3's physics is significantly exaggerated over Amped. You can land sideways on your board and keep going- I'm no snowboarder but I know from common sense that if you tried that in real life you will wipe out!

- SSX3's snow effects are inferior to Amped. SSX3 carves out simple trenches where you snowboard travels. Amped creates beautiful texture mapped trenches with dust trails.

- The overall degree of realism in Amped is far greater than SSX3's. The outdoor scenary in Amped is wonderful. I found SSX's scenary extremely artificial.

- There are no time limits in Amped like SSX. I hate racing games with time limits. There is never ever enough time.

- Amped's track is quite large and the game allows you to explore unintended paths at any time. SSX3 now provides the same thing but at specific branch points only.

- I found the radio in SSX3 incredibly juvenile. There was some chatter about somebody in high school- I found myself wanting to switch the radio off. That pretty much told me who the game's targeted age group is.

You cannot continue to live with out this game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome. It may take a few minutes to learn the controls but after that it is all good. You can board to your own soundtrack. Or it comes with it's own soundtrack with 150 songs. It is awesome multiplayer. You start your own career and then impress the media to get sponsers and then impress the sponsers to get stuff like clothes and gear. It is to cool, You know it's good if they made it a "platinum hits" game. Try this game you will not be disappointed plus they're coming out with an amped 2 so you know the first one had to be good.

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