An average extreeme sports title. Offers mild thrills and great freedom but witho no xbox live.
Amped 3
Amped 3 is the new Xbox 360 snowboarding launch game brought to you by the same creators that made the previous Amped snowboarding games. One of the first things you will notice is the comic book style menu system, cut scenes and options and everything else. They just completely vary in style or text, colour, pictures and sound its crazy and very eye caching and original. This helps to give a crazy feel to the game and definitely helps it stand out from the other 360 launch games.
The game feels like a Tony Hawk series game at first due to the sound track , the extreme sport and also the character customization which is really cool although you cannot have that much control over what your characters appearance is its still quite fun to mess about with to see what you can come up with and you can also choose what type of voice that you want your character to have. Like overconfident or low pitched and various other voices which you will hear through out the story mode of the game in cut scenes and other parts. The cut scenes help add to the game and break up the action a little. It’s about a group of snowboarders who have a case of money which goes missing and they think that it was you that stole it and leave you responsible to find it. Your typical story you would expect from a game like this might I add.
The game is brimming with personality and style which leave it hard to put down or stop playing if only for a little while and its sound track is great also. This mainly features around rock and soft rock genres. The worlds are seamless and you really feel like you can just about go anywhere you want. All you need to do is hop on your snow mobile and then drive up to the top of a big hill or mountain and then snowboard off of it and see what points you can get which is fun although this can leave the game feeling slightly bland after long periods of time. When you get to the top of mountains you can see a lot of the landscape which is really amazing looking the first few times you do it and this adds to the feeling of freedom. And like most games even though things may seem repetitive at times you will always be rewarded by you actions with gamer points! The game also changes from being a Racing game like its preceders and goes for something completely different with no opponents to race against. The seamless environments are the only thing that truly stretches the 360 compatibilities but nothing spectacular is expected t launch so we can let it off on some things.
No Xbox LIVE though is a bit of a let down. It just features Scoreboards which can be quite fun to compare your scores with other gamers around the world. The Multiplayer is a bit weak also. During the courier mode it sometimes passes the opportunity by to allow two players to play instead of one for short periods of time to do certain various challenges which can be quite fun, and it’s nice to see this game use a new method of multiplayer brought into the courier mode.
Amped 3 is a nice addition and viewed by many as what SSX used to be like. Its crazy and fun and some kicks can be had out of playing it but with no Xbox Live it’s a small disappointment but if you like extreme sports games this is definitely one to check out. But topped with a good sound track and unique style and feeling of freedom this can be deserved to be called a great sports game!