Aftrunner Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Yep looks nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimlock Posted June 7, 2011 Report Share Posted June 7, 2011 Fun Fun Fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HundredProofSam Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 New preview Excerpts At the E3 demonstration, there's no suggestion that the game itself, in development for a couple of years already at EA Canada and due in January 2012, has undergone a major change in direction. It's still based on real-world locations and still features the formerly titular deadly descents as dramatic, high-action "boss" levels. Nor is there any suggestion, even from this pre-alpha code, that it's anything less than a fantastic addition to a much-loved series. SSX looks great and plays as smooth as virgin snow. It's not long before we're pelting down a twisting tunnel of ice that is supposedly in the heart of Kilimanjaro's frozen volcano (but looks more like something from Mario Kart crossed with WipEout) while our demonstrator tells us the team's aim is to deliver "Burnout on snow". We start with the race inside Kilimanjaro, beginning in the Kibo crater and plunging into its fancifully imagined intestines. In many races, riders start from different points on the mountain before converging on the track; here, Mac, Elise and others start scattered around the crater rim before meeting at the tunnel mouth. You can use either an old-school button configuration or the more modern twin-stick approach; I use the latter when I get to try the mode out and it is very fluid, responsive and slick. There's a great sense of freedom to the environments too, with no artificial restrictions to your movement and a physics system, rather than design scripting, dictating which edges you can grind. We're at the highest peak in North America, Denali (otherwise known as Mount McKinley) in Alaska, and our enemy is snow. What that means in practice is procedurally generated avalanches created by your own snowboard: everywhere in the game, the terrain is subject to a stability analysis, and the forces you exert on the snow while riding - a heavy landing, a hard carve at high speed - have the potential to loosen snow, creating spray, slough, slides and even different categories of avalanche. The deadly descent sees us plummeting 1500 metres down the south face of Denali in a dim twilight, the boarder's head lamp flickering across the snowscape and a frightening apron of tumbling snow chasing him down the sheer face of the mountain. SSX generally isn't afraid to pull the camera far back from the boarder and simply fill the screen with white mountainside, to great effect. This deadly descent unusually reverses the camera angle, looking back towards the mountain and the boarder tumbling down it in a distant, almost 2D presentation that looks like filmed helicopter coverage. It's really effective, although hard to imagine how it maps to the controls. The demonstrator only makes it halfway down before being engulfed in his own wake of snow. SSX isn't really what was suggested by either its first appearance as Deadly Descents, or its subsequent, minimal rebranding. It looks, very unusually for an extreme sports sequel, like a game made to high standards, with considerable creative and technical ambition, but also sensitivity to its arcade roots. It might not be the game SSX fans imagined - but it probably is the game they've been waiting for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonCore Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Also new trailer http://www.ea.com/ssx/videos/ssx-survive-it-trailer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HundredProofSam Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Too many games in Feb :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playstation Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Too many games in Feb :| which games?? ..after uc3 there is only one great game coming before mass effect 3 in march and that is ff13-2 which is anyways not ur liking ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karooo Posted October 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Which ones? Me3, FFXIII-2 and this. Oh sh*t, Vita Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonCore Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 SSX easy choice for me unless there's a new Metal Gear coming out in Feb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HundredProofSam Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 AFAIK, Syndicate, Twisted Metal, Starhawk are also Feb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playstation Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 SSX easy choice for me unless there's a new Metal Gear coming out in Feb. MGS HD collection. AFAIK, Syndicate, Twisted Metal, Starhawk are also Feb. okay. dont care for any of those....except may be a little for twisted metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzz Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 AFAIK, Syndicate, Twisted Metal, Starhawk are also Feb. Why is Sony releasing both the games in Febuary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonCore Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Both tentative dates, nothing set in stone yet. And Starhawk is guaranteed to slip into second quarter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzz Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 Both tentative dates, nothing set in stone yet. And Starhawk is guaranteed to slip into second quarter. Oh okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindoctor Posted October 21, 2011 Report Share Posted October 21, 2011 nothing of interest for me in Q1 of next year. mass effect 3 in march but have zero expectations from it. ah well, the insane backlog building up now will be dealt with then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonCore Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 Tricky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAK Posted December 22, 2011 Report Share Posted December 22, 2011 omg this game is gonna be awesome... Tricky FTW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRINI87 Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dbz_479 Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 Ummm the Darkness 2 & syndicate are Feb releases too,the Darkness was a very underrated game.Worst thing about games lately is games r being priced at a FREAKIN Rs.2699.....WTF?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRINI87 Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NitroNeo Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 I Hope the awesome yeti guy from SSX On Tour is back , his menu animation was awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.