Post by Gilvan Blight on Mar 5, 2007 12:53:48 GMT -5
Quickly: crap
Summary: the lastest SSX game from EA Sports' Big line. This one has more characters, more unlockables, skiing, 3 mountains and all your favourite events. Best of all it has a brand new control scheme, using the revolutionary Wiimote and Nunchuck. You tilt the Nunchuck to steer, flick it upwards to jump and use the wimote to pull off tricks. New ubertricks, a new soundtrack, a graphics re-vamp and 4 modes of play are included.
The Good: SSX has always been a cool licence with interesting characters and pretty cool game concept. This has those. The way the music adds another layer and speeds up as you build your boost meter is interesting.
The Bad: to bad it takes a great franchise and ruins it. You only get 4 characters to start with out of the bunch you can unlock. The graphics got worse from the last edition. They went for some dumb cartoony look that just doesn't fit the franchise. The music is horrible. It's not even real songs, it's wordless technoish music. The anouncer is barely there and just doesn't seem to care. It's hard to navigate the mountain to figure out where you are going, and then with the broken controls it's even harder to get there when you want to. The addition of skis just seems pointless to me, and would make the controlls even harder because now you have to wory about which way you are facing. Too realistic. Everything is on a mountain this time around, where is the giant pinball game? The neon tokyo world etc?
The Ugly: The anouncer can't even pronounce the characters names. Well at least one of them. In every other SSX Kaori was pronounces (K or E), for some reason in this edition they keep calling her (Cow Re). It's so annoying. Not even sure if this is try of other characters, but it drove me bats.
The Incredably Ugly: the controls. Okay this sounded like a great use of the Wii. A game, you could almost say, made for the Wii. Yeah it would be if you could do anything with the over sensitive, frustrating, difficult control scheme. Except for carving down the mountain (which was almost fun and intuitive) any time my character did anything I wanted it to or anything cool it felt like it was a freak acident and had nothing to do with the way my hands were flailing in front of the TV. More frustrating is when you flail your hands as instructed in the tutorial and then watch your character do something totally different from what you thought was promised. I was frustrated with the controlls and ready to give up when I found the worst part. I got mad and shook my hands in rage; as my character did a double flip, lutz who know what for amazing points on bare snow! I try again flailing like I have a mental problem and watch my score fly up! How dumb is that. As long as you hit the A button, no matter what way you are facing you land. So you can totally cheeze is by flailing around and hitting A. Now there's proof their engine doesn't work. Now try flailing while going down the hill or off a ramp, sure enough, look at that awesome combo! Wow! Okay I don't enjoy a game where I steer to a ramp then flail like a 'tard to get points. I like to feel my character is doing what I tell them to do how I tell them to, not getting random cheeze points.
The Ugliest: Twice now the game has hung up on me! That is utterally unacceptable in a console game! One of the reasons to buy console games is so you don't have to download bug fixes and patches. You expect a clean pollished finished game. Not the case here obviously. Even more annoying when it crashes out you get a frozen screen and the worst possible, loudest sound your Wii can make coming out at you in 5.1 surround!
Overall: I think it's pretty obvious I thought this was pretty much a useless game. I can't belive they messed a great series up so badly. I am pissed I had to spend about $10 to find this out.
What I don't get though: The reviews are coming in from other sites and some of them, respected sites are ratting this high! I don't get it. IGN 84%, Gameinformer 85%. Now there are enough sites that are giving it low 50% (which in video game reviews means total shite)., but I don't get these high scores. So maybe someone out there likes this game, maybe someone just 'gets' the funky control scheme and pulls off sick moves with the flick of their wrist. Because of this I guess I almost have to recommend you try it yourself. The world seems divided on this one. One last warning though on gamerankings.com this dropped from an 82% to a 72% in a week due to more reviews being added.
Summary: the lastest SSX game from EA Sports' Big line. This one has more characters, more unlockables, skiing, 3 mountains and all your favourite events. Best of all it has a brand new control scheme, using the revolutionary Wiimote and Nunchuck. You tilt the Nunchuck to steer, flick it upwards to jump and use the wimote to pull off tricks. New ubertricks, a new soundtrack, a graphics re-vamp and 4 modes of play are included.
The Good: SSX has always been a cool licence with interesting characters and pretty cool game concept. This has those. The way the music adds another layer and speeds up as you build your boost meter is interesting.
The Bad: to bad it takes a great franchise and ruins it. You only get 4 characters to start with out of the bunch you can unlock. The graphics got worse from the last edition. They went for some dumb cartoony look that just doesn't fit the franchise. The music is horrible. It's not even real songs, it's wordless technoish music. The anouncer is barely there and just doesn't seem to care. It's hard to navigate the mountain to figure out where you are going, and then with the broken controls it's even harder to get there when you want to. The addition of skis just seems pointless to me, and would make the controlls even harder because now you have to wory about which way you are facing. Too realistic. Everything is on a mountain this time around, where is the giant pinball game? The neon tokyo world etc?
The Ugly: The anouncer can't even pronounce the characters names. Well at least one of them. In every other SSX Kaori was pronounces (K or E), for some reason in this edition they keep calling her (Cow Re). It's so annoying. Not even sure if this is try of other characters, but it drove me bats.
The Incredably Ugly: the controls. Okay this sounded like a great use of the Wii. A game, you could almost say, made for the Wii. Yeah it would be if you could do anything with the over sensitive, frustrating, difficult control scheme. Except for carving down the mountain (which was almost fun and intuitive) any time my character did anything I wanted it to or anything cool it felt like it was a freak acident and had nothing to do with the way my hands were flailing in front of the TV. More frustrating is when you flail your hands as instructed in the tutorial and then watch your character do something totally different from what you thought was promised. I was frustrated with the controlls and ready to give up when I found the worst part. I got mad and shook my hands in rage; as my character did a double flip, lutz who know what for amazing points on bare snow! I try again flailing like I have a mental problem and watch my score fly up! How dumb is that. As long as you hit the A button, no matter what way you are facing you land. So you can totally cheeze is by flailing around and hitting A. Now there's proof their engine doesn't work. Now try flailing while going down the hill or off a ramp, sure enough, look at that awesome combo! Wow! Okay I don't enjoy a game where I steer to a ramp then flail like a 'tard to get points. I like to feel my character is doing what I tell them to do how I tell them to, not getting random cheeze points.
The Ugliest: Twice now the game has hung up on me! That is utterally unacceptable in a console game! One of the reasons to buy console games is so you don't have to download bug fixes and patches. You expect a clean pollished finished game. Not the case here obviously. Even more annoying when it crashes out you get a frozen screen and the worst possible, loudest sound your Wii can make coming out at you in 5.1 surround!
Overall: I think it's pretty obvious I thought this was pretty much a useless game. I can't belive they messed a great series up so badly. I am pissed I had to spend about $10 to find this out.
What I don't get though: The reviews are coming in from other sites and some of them, respected sites are ratting this high! I don't get it. IGN 84%, Gameinformer 85%. Now there are enough sites that are giving it low 50% (which in video game reviews means total shite)., but I don't get these high scores. So maybe someone out there likes this game, maybe someone just 'gets' the funky control scheme and pulls off sick moves with the flick of their wrist. Because of this I guess I almost have to recommend you try it yourself. The world seems divided on this one. One last warning though on gamerankings.com this dropped from an 82% to a 72% in a week due to more reviews being added.