The voice actors are all top notch (David Duchovny and Lucy Liu are among the cast) and all suit their character’s well. Lots of hip hop and the general snowboarding vibe make up this sweet soundtrack. They’re all the same outfit, just with colour swaps. One minor problem (if it could be called that) is that each character’s outfit selection has little variety. All things considered, they are pretty remarkable. The graphics aren’t outstanding, but then – it is 5 years old. Popup is non-existent, and framerates are never a problem. Load times are kept to a minimum which is strange considering they reappeared with a vengeance in SSX 3. Those are the nice little details that make SSX Tricky a joy to play, over and over again. Even the character select screen acknowledges their differences Kaori hides from Psymon. The DJ’s always fun and characters like Eddie and Psymon often have interesting things to say. So what makes it so fun? It’s all the little things. That’s pretty much it as far as gameplay goes. Your rank is just a cosmetic thing – but each new rank unlocks a new board for your rider. Do well in the races and showoffs and you’ll advance a ranking. Showoff is the other mainstay of Tricky – you get a course all to yourself, and have to reach the target number of trick points. These points are pretty damn useful, especially when you turn your attentions to Showoff mode.
#SSX TRICKY EDDIE SHOWOFF UPGRADE#
It is of course, incredibly hard to pull off 6 Uber Tricks in time for it to actually make it worthwhile.Įach race you win will give you experience points, which you use to upgrade your rider. Highlighting the entire word will give you infinite boost for the rest of the race.
#SSX TRICKY EDDIE SHOWOFF FULL#
These new tricks award you with massive points, a complete refill to your adrenaline bar (Though it should be full anyway, if you just pulled an Uber Trick…) and each Uber Trick you perform will highlight one letter of the “TRICKY” which adorns the adrenaline bar. When you build up the adrenaline bar all the way to the top, Run DMC will briefly highjack the soundtrack, and start yelling “It’s TRICKY!!” This is your opportunity to perform an Uber Trick. Topping off the adrenaline bar, there’s now the word “TRICKY”. The introduction of Uber Tricks is the best example of this. The emphasis in Tricky is on style, rather than speed. There’s also the welcome addition of two new tracks a super easy beginner course, Garibaldi, and an insanely difficult expert course. All the original tracks reappear, some have minor adjustments. (Sadly, this includes the awesome Hiro.) Tricky makes up for it by introducing a bunch of brand new boarders – from the well balanced alpine boarder, Brodi (Hiro’s replacement), to the maniacal BX boarder, Psymon. All the courses of the original are back, but a few of the original riders have gone AWOL. Tricky isn’t so much a sequel, as a remake. They said that they had wanted to do things that wouldn’t have been possible in the first SSX. So that was SSX a race, pulling tricks to earn speed boosts.Ī year on, they reckoned that they had better come to grips with the technology available to them. Obviously, screwing up a trick, or falling flat on your face will decrease the adrenaline bar. Each successful trick will add to the adrenaline bar at the side of the screen, allowing for a small boost in speed at the touch of a button.
Throughout the tracks, there are plenty of big jump opportunities, so the boarders can show off their incredible skills in the air. It’s a race between 6 boarders, each trying to be as stylish and tricky as possible. SSX is basically the snowboarding equivalent of Motocross. A year later, those crazy guys at EA did what they do best: make a sequel.
#SSX TRICKY EDDIE SHOWOFF PS2#
It was, without a doubt, the best of the first few PS2 games. It showed off a few nice videos, had the program YABASIC on it, and a couple of playable demos. When the PS2 was released, it came with a nice little demo disk.
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