Amped 2
- September 03, 2003 16:13 PM PST
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Time to wax up your board for another season of Amped.
Amped 2 is gearing up to redefine freestyling on the snow. In this follow-up to Amped?s critically acclaimed first run, Microsoft is putting even more emphasis on realism. Players can now attack the mountain in a variety of ways rather than following a set of rules?just like how the pros do it. You can ride with aggression, pulling off super crazy spins and combos, or stay smooth and aim for perfectly timed tweaks and slow air rotations. Whatever your style, though, you still need to impress the press, who can make or break your rise to snowboarding stardom.The ride so far, however, is a bit bumpy. In a demo of the game, maneuvering around the already realistic-looking environments was still difficult. Boarders felt slow and unresponsive, and the new ?butter? system, which enables you to link tricks together by using nose and tail manuals, still needed to be fixed. If Microsoft can smooth out these kinks, Amped 2 could be a worthy sequel and a solid ride on the powdery slopes.
