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Oct 21 2005
SSX: On Tour Review
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| Summary: On Tour ROCKS!
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I've owned every SSX game (except the gba one), when I couldn't stand waiting for GTA I decided to fork out a little cash and pick up this beauty. It's exactly what I was looking for to pass the time away sitting on the dock of the ... Oh sorry.
Pros
Graphics are supurb. The power of the PSP amazes me to no end. I haven't noticed any slow downs. All in all I'm not looking for any better graphics in a portable game, period.
Sounds are perfect, wasn't too impressed with some of the music choices of the pass SSXs but this one seems to hit the rockstar style that seems to fit the genre so well.
Gameplay is pretty good. It's got the usual event stuff with a few alterations mixed in to keep it a little fresh. The ride down the entire mountain was taken out to keep the ammount of time that you are just coasting without anything to-do to a minimum. I don't miss the '1 mountain' idea at all. Another thing that totally floored me was the introduction of skis, when I first heard of this I thought you'd be having skiers vs boarders (which I believe is availible in the console version). I'm liking the fact that you are forced to get good at both. It keeps things moving and you aren't stuck playing the same way down the same mountain.
The menus and load screens are just fun and different. The cartoony black and white really work after you get use to it.
Cons
There are times in tunnel areas that the camera travels really close and unless you have experience w/ SSX3 then you might not know which way you have to turn. This is more of an annoyance than something I hate.
The controls .... AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGG .... I hate the fact that SQUARE isn't tweak anymore and instead it is a grab. This means when you go to start boosting early after a trick you frequently end up grabing your board and then doing a very unwanted faceplant. This also comes into play when there are small little hills which I'm very use to holding down boost to get over them ... well now if there is enough air time between the hills you'll end up doing yet another unsucessful attempt at a grab. And to top it off you can't change your controls except between "normal" and "advanced", advanced throwing anything you ever learned about SSX out the window and starting from scratch with the most annoying control scheme I think I've ever seen.
The Stuff I Didn't Care About
The loadtimes are there, can't avoid that, but just look up from that funky animation to see what time of day it is and when you look back its probably already loaded. Lack of music styles, while rock is good , some would prefer other choices and this SSX seems to be limited in choices.
Overall, SSX rocks and I'm very glad I purchased it. Besides the controls, which I'll get use to in time, there isn't anything wrong with this game. It is a sure buy and the only reason for taking points off is because of the lack of customizability in reference to the controls. The reason the high score still is the fact that the Pros definitely out weight the Cons here.
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10/23/05
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pspdragon
| USA | SOCOM: Paul-Pierce
i will get this game when i m tired of playing gta lcs.
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10/27/05
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gamenerd93
| North Carolina USA
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