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Remake

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: May 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is at least 3 stars if you don't own any of the Tony Hauk games. This game is exactly the same except that you're
on a snowboard and going down hill. I would not rcomend getting this game if you have ever played Tony Hauk and didn't like it.
The game objective is the same as Tony Hauk. It's pretty much a remake.

Pretty good Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

amped 2 is the best snowboarding/snowskating game ever. However there are a few exceptions, the game is not very realistic, which means that you can do a double back flip off of a 2 foot jump or you can grind the lift cables. But there are good thing about this game too. They put buttering into the game, good for making combos and they put styling your tricks in the game which, if done right it can put 100,000 points on your score for a 720 spin! snowskating is the crappy half of the game because you can do 1 footed k-grinds and stuff like that. but if you do a back flip or frontflip you will loose your board in mid air if you dont grab it wich is cool.

Very very challenging

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Okay, now I bought this game out of pure interest in snowboarding. This was the first X-Box game I had, and also the most challenging. The career mode starts of fairly simple, but once you get to about rank #215, it starts getting tough. But it is mainly just getting sponsors and doing photo shoots. The events, like the competition levels in Tony Hawk, are also very tough. One of the better things about this game is that it supports custom soundtracks. If you like snowboarding games that are very, very hard, and very messed up physics, then pick this one up.

A Fun Game, But You CAN Get Stuck...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Amped 2 is a pretty good game. It has over 15 mountains, tons of challenges, great graphics, and tons of tricks. Its fun for people who like snowboarding games, and its a blast online, playing with up to 8 people. Here's what I thought of Amped 2: by Microsoft Game Studios...

1) Single Player: This game is similar to the original in terms of single player. You start out at rank 250, and work your way up to #1. Only this time, there are more challenges, more tracks, and several new ways to board. There are now 8 grabs (instead of the 2 in the first), and the ability to do a butter. What a butter does is connect 2 moves. So you can do a backflip, do a butter, then pull of a grind. It combines the 2 tricks for a better score. This can lead to a lot more customization. Not to mention the extra 6 grabs...

Amped 2 brings back High Score, Media Score, and trying to find all the Snow Men. It also adds finding the 5 gaps, and pulling off 5 special tricks. Once completing all of this, you can try to out-trick 3 pros, win over 3 sponsors, and do 3 photoshoots (very cool). Each thing you complete increases your rank, and once up to a certain rank (say 200), you can unlock a new track.

One thing about the single player is that it can get incredibly hard. Scoring hundreds of thousands of points, pulling off insane tricks, or trying to impress a very tough sponsor. Fortunantly, with each rank come new trick "point(s)", which you can use to improve your snowboarder. You can increase speed, rotation, air time, blance, and switch (similar to the Tony Hawk series). Spending the points wisely may be the difference between beating and failing the game...

The problem in single player though, is thats its so long, and so hard at times that you just want to give up (like the original). If you do keep trying though, you can beat it. It can just get a bit frustrating at times...

2) Online Play~ The online play is a blast in this game. You can race with up to 8 people in several game types: high score, king of the mountain (pulling off the best tricks on certain hills), and a tournament (which averages out everyones best tricks, high scores, media, etc.. #1, 2, 3...). The cool thing is that you can take you single player character online. So all that work you put in to beating the game is finally worth it. The graphics are great, there are rankings. So online play in this game is awsome. Especially if u love snowboarding

3) Graphics~ The graphics in this game are...amazing. Your character looks almost real (you can customize his or her hair, clothes, snowboard, etc.. And the color of everything). As you board, the snow shoots out from behind. You leave a trail of where you've been. When you grind, sparks fly out from the board. When you hit a tree, you knock snow off. The snow looks real, fun, exicting. Its a blast to board through and pave your way. The tricks look cool and realistic. The mountains you race on have birds, trees, tons of snow, camera men, rails, and buildings. It really does look like a boarding mountain, and adds to the game.

Overall this game is a blast. Better than the first, the online play and extremely long single player make this a great game that will last you for awhile. Reccomended for anyone who loves snowboarding (I might wait a month or 2 and wait for the price to drop tho). A good game that won't dissapoint.

Thx!

obryanstars*

excellent via xbox live step above the original

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The controls for amped 2 have changed slightly but are much easier than the original. The biggest and best feature for this game is xbox live. The live mode is awesome. It has 1/4-ly and weekly stats and tons of gamers on all the time. All gamers online do not have equal stats. IF you want to score high online you must play the 1 player game and up your players stats. This imho is an awesome way to get players to play the single player mode if they even want to be somewhat good online. The xsnsport.com feature is excellent too. With xsnsports.com you can login with your gamertag and setup contests and packs. Contests can run for a certain amount of days and can be open to anyone or by invite only. Packs adds another great feature and makes clans somewhat useful in a game like this. You can checks your packs stats and see how your pack rates against another pack. Another new trick ability is style. With style you can spin a slow 360 off a cliff and get just as many points as if you threw a fast jerky 1080. Style can also be used while jibbing, grabbing, and doing a butter. The butter was also another trick that was added so you can manual between obstactles and get a multiplier for linking tricks together

There really arent many flaws with this game at all. The controls are right on, the xbox live features rock, and the game is tough enough to keep you entertained for a while.

Best snowboarding game on x-box.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game differs from most other snowboarding games on the market, in that Amped 2 tries to base itself on real snowboarding. Other snowboarding games (e.g. SSX Tricky), have more of a video game feel.

The game play is fairly simple to get the hang of, if you have ever played snowboarding or skateboarding games before. The goal of the single player mode is to move your way up the snowboarding ranks to #1. You accomplish this by getting high scores, media scores (tricking near media icons), sponsors, and by beating pro.s (a little like follow the leader). As you beat levels, your rider increases in skill level. (i.e. turns faster, jumps higher, etc. etc.). After you reach #1, you unlock "legend" challenges on each mountain. These are incredibly difficult challenges similar to the ones above (high score, media, or pro).

The graphics and sound are really good. The trees and the snow look real, and the lighting looks pretty real as well. The sound is dead on, whether you're snowboarding on ice, packed snow, or even rocks. And, one of my favorite features, this game allows you to play your own music on the soundtrack (although I have to admit some of the songs that came on the game were pretty good).

The online version is good, but nothing special. The game types are: king of the hill, trick race, high score, or just ride. Typically, you'll ride with about 7 or 8 other players. The game is pretty good about not lagging online. The downside is that playing with other players doesn't really add much to the gaming experience - you're still riding and tricking down the mountain.

My only beef with this game is it's a total consumerism sell-out. After accomplishing a goal (such as beating a pro or getting a sponsor), you're "rewarded" with a video of a snowboarding company or a rider you've never heard of. I want my commercials on TV, not on my x-box.

Listen Up

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was a big fan of the original Amped, and this one should be even better. From the old one, the realism was amazing. I have been snowboarding for several years now, and i cant tell u how real this game is! At first i thought that this game would be almost identical, which turned me down. But after hearing what they added I had to get it!
-New Mountains
-Split screen Multiplayer
-Xbox Live Anabled
-New graphics engine
With these changes the series has gone to a whole new level. I cant wait to get it!

A great REALISTIC snowboarding experience.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I love the SSX games, but Amped 2 was a nice change of pace, offering a more conventional and realistic take on snowboarding. Pretty much all of the tricks you can do in this game can be done in real life. The graphics are great. Customization is great. Lots of expansive mtns. to explore. It is quite difficult to master. The physics are tricky to master but they are beautiful once you do. Finally the soundtrack is really aewsome offering tons of music in different generic categories. Plus, this is a great game to play with customized soundtracks. Not quite as much fun as SSX 3, but the 2nd best of its type on XBOX!

Pretty cool

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm not usually a fan of sports-type games, but Amped 2 was pretty good. I like the fact that you don't have to play as any particular person. You get to pick from several base characters, male/female, black/white, etc. and then choose what types of clothes, goggles, gloves, boards, etc. you want you character to have. The game gives you a freedom to explore massive parts of mountains and just mess around, but you'll have to unlock different mountains in campaign mode. Campaign mode is pretty cool though: for each mountain you have to complete certain tricks, beat certain high scores, take a few photoshoots, etc. which are challenging at times but usually pretty fun.

Snowboarding @ it's best!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was a huge fan of the first amped. My friends and I would sit around for hours playing this damn game. Finally I got my hands on the second one and i noticed some big changes.. First, The controls have changed, and getting used to the new controls after being a die-hard fan of the first was a trying experience. Second, the style system made me very angry when i first started using it. I was used to just pushing it as had as i can on the jumps.Once i got used to it though it really was helpful. Finally, the butter! its basically a manual on a snowboard very helpful in combos for big scores!Overall i love this game and i think anyone who is a fan of a real snowboarding game should get this!!!

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