SSX 2012
SSX is a video game that features snowboarding. Electronic Arts was the publisher and EA Canada was the developer of this exciting video game. This franchise which is a big hit on consoles like Wii, PS2 and Xbox will now be available to Xbox 360 and PS3. Compared to the former SSX releases which utilized imaginary courses, this latest version offers gamer can board down 27 mountains in nine mountain ranges worldwide, like Antarctica and the Alps. The gameplay offered by SSX have free-roaming feature which is enhanced compared to the older versions. Fixed paths are removed and barriers are also reduced meaning that gamers can choose their route as they descend the mountain. SSX also offer gamers with chopper drop to start their descent and they may also use a wing-suit to fly further when jumping.
Many gaming modes are present in the SSX. In “Race It” mode, you can compete with other players to reach the bottom of the selected mountain. You should reach it first in order for you to win that race. In the “Trick It” mode, you should complete all the extraordinary tricks. Being a point system, you must get the highest score for you to become the top player in the leaderboard. The survival mode offered by SSX where players need to survive fortuitous events like avalanche and rockslides while on the race. Lastly, the exploration mode allow gamers to conquer all the available descent within the video game, you can set your best time and score for other players to beat and compete with the run saved of other players.
Several highlights ad features of SSX are the following:
- Locations of the races. In order to accurately reproduce many of the famous mountains around the world, geotagging data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was utilized in SSX. Mountains slopes numbering to 27 from the nine mountain ranges worldwide were included in the video game, like Antarctica, the Andes and the Himalayas for example.
- Racing option. The first to reach the bottom of the mountain is declared the winner. Gamers have the liberty to choose which path they are going to take with their snowboards for them to win but they have to be ready for the obstacles along the way.
- Trick mode. Accomplishing tricks as you descend the mountain for you to acquire enough points to be declared the winner. Your points will greatly depend on the number of tricks you have accomplished throughout the descent. You have to perform the most outrageous tricks for you to earn greater amount of points.
- Survival mode. Gamers must endure natural disasters associated in snowy mountains like avalanche or rockslides. Staying alive as you race against other players in the key to win this mode of the SSX.
- Exploration mode. SSX offers 150 slopes for players to snowboard. You have to set your record time in Race Drop, in the trick descent and find out the survival time in the survival mode then post it online where other players have the opportunity to beat your time.
- Worldwide competitions. You can compete with other players in this mode in actual time.
This video game is appropriate for children ageing seven and above for it has PEGI rating.
