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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is not a game so much as an excercise in addiction control and you will fail! The need to play this tugs at you every few minutes when your XBox is turned off. This is by far the best XBox launch title other than the magnificent Halo. But the difference between the two is that Amped has a tremendous amount of replay. Graphically this title go's far beyond anything else ever made. It's also one of the first XBox titles to take advantage of the built in Hard Drive by storing all the environmental data such as Trees and backgrounds. So there will be literally no popup or distance fogging commonly used to improve frame rates. You can literally see forever particularly on the huge mountains such as the Altibahn. There are so many different levels of bump mapping and textures on the snow alone it makes your head spin. There is plowed snow, Poweder, lined, Ice, packed, you name it.
Gameplay is where it's at though. This is the way Snowboarding should be. Total freestyle. Not some SSX clone running down unreal tracks and knocking others down along the way. This is all about choosing your own line, and pulling incredible moves.
Do yourself a favor, if you own the XBox, buy this now. This truly shows why the Xbox is the most powerfull console created.

Best sport game on the X-box

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: November 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just purchased the game and I absolutely love the game. The graphics like all x-box games look like your watching a live match it looks realistic and plays realistic. The game is fun, fast, but very hard too control if you are new to the snowboarding genre. In my opinion the game has a steep learning curve. this is definitely 5 stars

Fun Game, Bends But Not Breaks the Rules of Physics

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I've owned Amped for four weeks (over 60 hours of play), and I rented SSX Tricky for five days (over 20 hours of play). I'm a skier, not a boarder, and I love Amped. SSX Tricky has its good points too, but with that game the characters break dance on their boards and can't wander off the given path. In Amped the boarder is firmly attached to his bindings, and behaves more realistically. If you want a racing game with cartoon-like characters, go for SSX Tricky. If you want a fun single-player game get Amped. One funny addition in Amped is the taunts from the other boarders when you bite a trick: 'You dropped your pocket!'

Pros:
- Fun! High replay value. Either go for high scoring tricks, or wander the mountain looking for snowmen to run over. Or ride the entire length of a ski lift cable.
- More realistic physics than SSX Tricky (OK, so no one can jump 50 feet high), but you can stop anywhere on the mountain, and pick your own path down the mountain.
- Beautiful graphics: whisps of snow, shadows, sparkling snow, hard ice
- Customize the background music to CD's you rip to the XBox hard drive

Cons:
- No simultaneous multi-player: you take turns.
- No time challenges, no gate racing
- Tough learning curve if you have Tony Hawk trick habits

So fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Amped is just a cool game, whether you are a snowboarding fan or not. The graphics are good and realistic, though I must say it's hard to tell which characters are girls from the way they've bundled them up. : ) The tricks are challenging, but with some practice they are really interesting and fun to play with. Lots of neat combinations make for a fun experience.

The levels are also fun, from the beginner hill to the most difficult mountains, the player is learning new tricks and facing new challenges along the way. I especially love the singing snowmen you can knock down as part of the challenges.

The music is awesome, the sound effects are amusing (though I do sometimes want to pound on the guys when you fall) and all in all it's a great game!

Played it - Loved it!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This title was one of the games I kept going back to Microsoft's booth at E3 to play over and over again. (I gave it four stars instead of five because I was playing an unfinished product at the time.) The controls were easy yet refined, the graphics showed great promise, and the gameplay was excellent. Basically when I played it, it was plain fun!

The BEST, serious snowboarding game out for ANY game system!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding is a Valium-fueled take on snowboarding. You're free to do what you want, when you feel like it, and while you're under stress in the middle of a mission. The overall experience is oddly relaxing, especially early in the game when there's no real pressure to beat every goal in order to unlock new levels. Just as in games like Tony Hawk, the only frustration comes in the repeating levels to get a specific medal - but even then, you can always restart in a flash.

Match that with the open air feel of the levels, the breathtaking coolness of sliding through powder, and the breezy sound effects and in-game chatter, and you've got yourself the gaming equivalent of sitting in the hot tub after a long day on the slopes. Amped is a new way to look at snowboarding, and it's fun and large enough to keep you interested for hours and hours. Sure, there are some problems with the way the game controls, but the overall package is well designed, and most of all, totally charming. Amped manages to be simultaneously epic and down-home at the same time, thanks to the mixture of cool presentation, easy to navigate goal structure, and time-free boarding on giant mountains. You won't sweat while playing a game of Amped - but then again, we're talking about snow, aren't we?

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.

Fun for a while, but....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: September 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game had a lot of potential, and is still a must buy now that you can find it for less then $$$. But it had so much potential...and in so many ways, it was wasted.

First off: the graphics were magnificent. The use of graphics is fantastic! When u grind a rail, u really think your seeing a replay of a competition. The snow dust and tracks behind you is incredible. This was the first game I saw for Xbox, and it really showed the graphics it could support. The mountains, people, you look so realistic, you'll think you really did get dropped off on a slope.

The gameplay is ok...up to a point. In the game, your ranked from beggining to end. The goal is to get ranked as the #1 boarder in the world. You start out at 150. I got up to 75, then I was just stuck. The goals they set inside the rank of 80 are incredibly hard...up to a frustrating point. But hey, if you think u can master it, go for it. The creativity, I must admit, in the gameplay is fantastic. The use of sponsers and media is pretty cool. During the game u unlock sponsers. Sponsers (:Dragon's Wear: for example) give u new clothes (jackets, hats), gear (gogles, snowboards), and new parks to board in. This game would have been a blast and ground breaking if it wasn't so hard. This is one of 2 things that really killed the game.

The options: thankfully, one of the things this game lacked was not options. U can do single run (just a run down any mountain you've opened with any pro u pick), multiplayer (which really [...]), career, and preferences (where u baslicly decide what music u want to listen to; your own soundtrack or the game's). In career, u can board down any mountain you've unlocked. Pick your outfit from what clothes you;ve been given (by a sponser), board against a pro. This game may be quite hard, but at least it had enough options.

WHAT RUINED IT: Two things changed this game from a 5 star to a 3 star. The first was the difficulty. It just gets to hard! The second was absolutely HUGE! The multiplayer in this game was horrible! There is no split screen, no racing. All u can do is board down a mountain one at a time, trying to get the best score. But the stupid part is, the second player has to match or out do the 1st player's trick! I mean, come on. This game could have been an awsome multiplayer if u could race down a hill with these types of graphics, and or a split screen trick game. This game would have flown off the shelves if there would have been some sort of multiplayer creativity.

Thats my review on this game, and for it's price, you might want to counsider getting it. But don't expect anything ground breaking. This is an average game for an excellent system.
I hope this helped!

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!!

I know what I am talking about

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

ok, first of all dont listen to peolpe that reviewed a game without owning it. I do. This game has many great reasons for owning it. It is different, dont listen to tony hawk guy... there are many different levels, tricks, etc. The replay value is good, but it is good if you have friends to play it with. THe soundtrack option is great. If you dont already have your own soundtrack on the x-box, i dont know why you got it, but anyways it holds tons of cd's and with amped you can cycle through while playing it. Well i will not spend any more time on this review because I want to get amped!

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