Snowboard Freestyle Skiing Guide
Away from the slopes, snow-themed computer games might be the next best thing when it comes to getting your fix of winter sports action before you get chance to head to the mountains. Here’s our roundup of some of the best ski and snowboard video games, past and present. From the first Eighties retro fun to the latest mobile-specific adventures, which of these made you guilty of spending a few too many hours gazing at a screen? This open-world extreme sports game gives you the chance to unleash your inner freeriding daredevil as you explore the loftiest peaks in the Alps, whether that means carving a death-defying line down Mont Blanc or soaring off the edge of the Matterhorn. Following a successful launch of the original game in 2016, designers at Ubisoft announced the release of a second edition, which takes on new locations and challenges to mark the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. Steep: Road to the Olympics allows players the chance to participate in Olympic events such as downhill skiing, slopestyle, half pipe and big air and explore the locations for the 2018 event in South Korea, as well as regions in Japan. The game, which allows players to don their national colours, is in partnership with the International Olympic Committee and was released on December 5 2017, just in time for Winter Olympic fever. The career mode of the game required you to gain exposure by finding a sponsor and getting media coverage. Eventually you would reach start status and achieve a shop sponsor. From there the path involved beating more high scores to become a sponsored pro snowboarder and compete in the Jib-Fest, a world renowned snowboarding competition.
There are two factors that are going to have you rethinking Amped's fun -- the learning curve, and the short, short levels. When you start, you'll find yourself on runs that are literally under a minute, giving you barely enough time to get yourself up to speed, let alone pulling off major tricks. To make matters worse, the controls are a bit different that what you're used to. While they're similar to Tricky, there are elements of Tony Hawk involved, not to mention some new aspects that will literally make you feel like you've actually discovered bugs in the game. But stick with it. The Controls are actually pretty simple, at least on paper. Devious stuff you'll love it. You can even save your replay, and actually compete against it later in a special Pro mode it's an awesome addition that will most likely be missed by many gamers. Because there's no time limit, all of this is pretty low stress. If you don't beat the scores, then go back and do it again. The problem with this is that since you're not locked under a time limit, you can exploit scores pretty easy, like hitting a rail slow, and jumping and hitting the rail again and again for the first half of the game, at least, you'll be able to hit totals by doing two rails, maybe three.Tweak tricks with triggers, grind with one button, and the other three buttons, as well as the right stick, are used for grabs when you're in the air. Not bad, right? Well like Tricky, you'll have to really be aware of how you're faced this isn't like Tony Hawk, where characters will start to situation themselves correctly. The cool animation of the game has the snowboarder twisting his torso separate to his legs, but when it comes to judge how much you need to "oversteer" to land correctly, it's hard to judge from just a simple jerk of the pad.
The same goes for vertical steering as well, which is made worse when you're allowed to spin in odd directions but you're totally unable to figure out the Rubik's puzzle of how to upright yourself before you hit the snow again. Where this really gets complicated is when you start using the "spring loaded" spins of the game. Hold down the jump button and a direction, and if you release them correctly, you'll get an insane snap that will allow you to perform a quick flip or turn, and add momentum to your overall spin. If you're used to playing Tricky this will usually translate into having your character crash constantly at first... if you're used to Tony Hawk, you'll wonder why you can barely get your character to spin. It's actually a cool trick that look authentic (uh, to people like me who can't afford snowboarding, anyway), but you'll swear that this is the dumbest gameplay on earth at least for your first 20 minutes of play. Even after you've become a pro, you'll find yourself groaning when your character does a spin turn or doesn't when you need them to, but overall it works.
You've got a good selection of modes in the game to keep you happy, from hitting both Pro and Media scores in the game, to doing a sponsor run where you have to do tricks based on a sponsor's interest, and Pro matches. You can actually kill two birds with one stone by beating the Pro score goals by doing tricks, while going for the jumps, ramps, and rails that have the Media icon floating above them, which are how you score media points. Of course, if you don't like ridicule (and believe me, you'll get it), then you might want to stay away from the photographers until your ego's a little tougher. The Pro mode has you following a Pro boarder, and topping their tricks on the specific jumps they hit it's fast, but fun.
The sponsor matches actually provide you with some of the biggest challenges in the game, because you'll have to do specific tricks on a run to make a sponsor proud, like rails or spins and flips. Do a sloppy flip, and their excitement goes down do an amazing trick that they don't care about, and you'll get little reaction from your Amped meter. So not only do you have to hit their tricks, but you've got to keep doing it throughout a run to keep their enthusiasm up. Devious stuff you'll love it. You can even save your replay, and actually compete against it later in a special Pro mode it's an awesome addition that will most likely be missed by many gamers. Because there's no time limit, all of this is pretty low stress. If you don't beat the scores, then go back and do it again. The problem with this is that since you're not locked under a time limit, you can exploit scores pretty easy, like hitting a rail slow, and jumping and hitting the rail again and again for the first half of the game, at least, you'll be able to hit totals by doing two rails, maybe three. If Amped's got a fatal flaw, it's that it's a little too friendly. While there's challenge, it's always handled in such a mellow way that sometimes you'll wish that there was something a little more pressing in your snowboarding world. Match that with the open air feel of the levels, the breathtaking coolness of sliding through powder, and the breezy sound effects and in-game chatter, and you've got yourself the gaming equivalent of sitting in the hot tub after a long day on the slopes. Amped is a new way to look at snowboarding, and it's fun and large enough to keep you interested for hours and hours. Sure, there are some problems with the way the game controls, but the overall package is well designed, and most of all, totally charming. Amped manages to be simultaneously epic and down-home at the same time, thanks to the mixture of cool presentation, easy to navigate goal structure, and time-free boarding on giant mountains.
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