SSX (series)

SSX is a snowboarding video game for the game console. Over the years a number of successor games have been published, all of which were developed by Electronic Arts and released under the label EA Sports Big. Characteristic of the game series are the unrealistic tricks and the unnatural length of routes.

Gameplay

The goal is for all games, winning races on the track when the player moves either the first or the finish achieved by tricking the most points. Upon publication of the first part of the majority of the gaming magazines received good to very good reviews.

Publications

SSX 3

Playmaking

The whole game takes place on a mountain, which is divided into three peaks instead. This summit is one of the lightest and three more suitable for advanced users. At the beginning of the game, the player starts to peak and one must achieve different goals to unlock the next summit. The game is divided into three basic so-called events ( " event "). The Racing ( " race " ), the Freestyle ( " Freestyle " ) and the Freeride ( " Free Driving" ). Through successful completion of one of the event categories on a peak of the next highest is then unlocked.

Racing

The player must navigate as quickly as possible and reach the goal before the computer controlled opponents a course. For this event five basic courses are provided. In addition, the player has a rival on every summit beat head to head away from the slopes to unlock the next summit. The last race event of each summit there is a race across almost all previously unlocked slopes, creating a nearly 30-minute descent can be driven on top 3.

Freestyle

The player must point to a specific course particularly complicated tricks and maneuvers to harvest as much as possible points. The freestyle competition is divided again into three different categories. The Big Air ( " Big Jump " ) amounts to a very high jump, in which the player must earn points. The Slopestyle is a longer track full of ramps and railings, on which the player can actually slide to achieve high scores. The Super Pipe ( "super tube ") is a particularly high halfpipe in which the player must reach as many trick points in a predefined time. In the freestyle mode, the player a rival challenge to the three in "Racing" must be specified to complete courses to reach the next summit at the end.

Freeride

In this mode, the player can navigate the event courses without opponents and conditions, go to the connection between the slopes public courses or in the lodge ( "hut" ) buy clothes or extra body performance. In addition, various challenges offered on the slopes, in which the player must leave, for example, a runway without a fall or to reach a certain score only by slides.

Driver

At the beginning of the game the players are nine characters to choose from. In addition to these figures, called throughout the game cheat boarders can be unlocked that can select the player.

SSX ON Tour

Innovation: the mountain can be almost fully busy and the first time can also be driven skis.

SSX (2012)

The new edition of the game for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 is advertised as massively multiplayer online game.

Trivia

In the simulation also published by EA The Sims 2 SSX 3 is the standard game for game consoles and PCs.

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