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Amped 3

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7.1 User Score:

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Game Info

Publisher: 2K Sports

Developer: Indie Built

Genre(s): Extreme Sports

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: November 15, 2005

Summary

Massive Mountains - Amped 3 features seven new resorts, up to three times larger than levels in Amped 1 & 2. Take on hundreds of challenges around the resorts, or pull out your sled and try to hang on for dear life. Explore the entire mountain on a snowmobile, get away from it all in the back country, or find the perfect spot and build your own obstacles, rails, and jumps. Snowbox - The resorts are loaded with hundreds of challenges; beat them and earn upgrades, new stuff, or Coin you can use to buy a ton of swag. And these challenges aren't just about your skills on a snowboard... there's snowmobiling, sledding, and more. All your top scored runs, hang-times and crashes are automatically posted for all to see on Live... see how you measure up against the rest of the planet and go grab the top spot. Park Builder - Anywhere, anytime, you can plant your own jumps and rails to create a personal terrain park, add things to trick off to get better High Scores, or just make a difficult challenge a little easier. You can even create your own sessioning area. And you earn newer and crazier objects to plant as you play the game. [2K Sports]

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What The Critics Said

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AceGamez

The story and presentation for Amped 3 is the funniest, most tripped out, wacky and bizarre thing you have ever seen! I kid you not, this game redefines kooyness - whatever these guys were on when they put this game together, I want some!

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Extreme Gamer

The fun and challenging Amped series lives on with a new strange and beautiful side. Besides the missing online multiplayer Amped 3 is one of the launch bests titles for the Xbox 360. Don't pass this one up.

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Game Chronicles

But with so much content, miles of mountainside, hours of music, addictive mini-games, hilarious movies, park editor, online leaderboards, sleds, snowmobiles and even bathtubs, Amped 3 is in a class all its own.

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Computer and Video Games

With a story mode that demands to be finished and pacing so good that it'll steal big chunks of your life, Amped 3's one of the best extreme sports titles since the original "SSX." It's cool, it's edgy, it's irreverent and it's fun. [Official UK Xbox Magazine]

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Gamezilla!

In the end, the best thing that I can say about Amped 3 is that it’s fun, and simply has enough to do to keep you entertained for a good long time.

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Loaded Inc

The game is extremely easy to pick up and play, but has enough challenges requiring skill that literally anyone should have fun with this title, even the video-snowboarding novice.

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Game Informer

Aped 3 isn't just a game that works, it's a title that will suck hours away from your life and demand that you dominate mountains. [Dec 2005, p.163]

Games Radar UK (Pre-2006)

It's impossible to dislike Amped 3 - it has real character, is hugely ambitious in size and scope, there's plenty to keep you occupied and, even if it isn't all that immediate, it is accessible.

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Electronic Gaming Monthly

The game is a whole lotta fun. The pacing's a bit off--the story missions seem to take forever on the first few mountains, then you scream through the last three.

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Yahoo! Games

Certainly one of the more imaginative games of the 360's launch line-up, Amped 3 impresses in both its stylish, off-the-wall presentation and its relaxed, laid-back gameplay.

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Official Xbox Magazine

Amped 3 gets everything right that's wrong with "SSX." [Jan 2006, p.72]

Gamestyle

The new direction taken by Amped 3 will not be to everyone's taste. Yet somehow this underdog has managed to dominate Gamestyle's available Xbox 360 playtime - leaving PGR3 trailing, PDZ quaking and Condemned hammered.

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MS Xbox World

The lack of genuine Live play does hurt the longevity of the game but I guess you cant have everything.

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G4 TV

Easy playability, a solid presentation, and one of the most satisfyingly off-beat and engaging storylines in any game all make Amped 3 one of the more suprising Xbox 360 launch games.

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Games Radar (in-house)

While some gripes remain about the slightly confusing character skill progression, Amped 3 delivers a solid, next-gen entertainment bonanza that howls with the soul of a true snow beast.

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ZTGameDomain

The production values are high, the game play is smooth, and it is simply a joy to play.

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Gamers Europe

You get the feeling that the programmers enjoyed making it, enjoy gaming themselves, and just “get” what makes a game good.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Amped 3 is a big success. The physics are realistic, the controls are excellent (and a challenge to master) and the sprawling snowfields provide many hours of fun. No matter what your skill level, there's a lot of fun to be had here.

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NTSC-uk

A chilled-out, whacked-out gem of a game and one that demonstrates that games can do ‘funny’ and ‘more accessible’ and pull it off with style.

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Pelit (Finland)

Tries to find a new direction for the series, but the choices made are hit-and-miss. Amped 3 feels watered down and butchered compared to Amped 2. The crazy cutscenes are fun to watch, though. [Feb 2006]

Jolt Online Gaming UK

The game has style, variety, originality, plenty of content and bags of fun – but let’s face it, when you’ve seen one mountain, you’ve pretty much seen them all. The same goes for a good deal of the other unlockable content.

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Next Level Gaming

Having only a single player mode for a game like this doesn't help the cause either. So Amped 3 ends up being pretty good, but not great.

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GameSpot

The wholly original cut-and-paste visual style of Amped 3--combined with the manic, increasingly crazy energy of the story mode--make it easier to forgive the oft-repetitive and occasionally plain gameplay.

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Xbox Solution

For the right gamers this one will provide laughter and the snowboarding experience, just not in the normal way you may be used to.

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TeamXbox

The story mode has plenty of depth and is fun to pass around with a group of friends. Multiplayer is severely lacking and it’s a shame that Amped 3 can’t reach its full potential without it.

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Detroit Free Press

From the chillin' lingo to the colorful, retro-inspired interludes (often told using any or all of the aforementioned oddballs), the game is packed with attitude.

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Console Gameworld

As a single player experience, Amped 3 shows lots of humor, creativity and diverse gameplay. Gamers will easily lose three hours in a sitting, trying to unlock additional challenges and courses.

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GameZone

Hardcore snowboarding fans will find it too easy while casual gamers will hate the forced style. The style and cutscenes I found refreshening [sic].

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Cheat Code Central

Snowboarding is buried in here somewhere but it's sandwiched between Mountain Dew 'tude', insane fratboy party visuals and some gameplay completely unrelated to snowboarding.

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Xbox Evolved

Despite the fact that Amped 3 doesn’t have any multiplayer, or that the visuals aren’t exactly the best thing you will see on Xbox 360, it is still a very solid snowboarding game.

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1UP

Underneath the show there's still a snowboarding game that's fun to hang out with, but only in doses.

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GameSpy

For me, the biggest shortcoming of Amped 3 was the lack of any decent multiplayer gameplay. There's nothing happening with Xbox Live -- save for some cool, but basic score tracking -- and the offline multiplayer is limited to the rather disappointing co-op two-player sledding events.

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GamerFeed

The game's presentation seems just slightly above average at best, and the game lacks the kind of killer multiplayer where you can deem yourself ruler of the mountain.

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DailyGame

Could've just as easily been a current-gen title. Average graphics, annoying story and too-easy gameplay make for a ho-hum game.

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Boomtown

Amped 3 brought lots of smiles to my face, but these were down to the wacky presentation rather than anything else.

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Operation Sports

With no true multiplayer mode, online or offline, it's hard to suggest Amped 3 as anything more than a rental.

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Edge Magazine

It’s an enormously likeable package, and one which sets perhaps a much more valuable next-gen agenda: one of games which place a higher emphasis on player enjoyment than they do their own ambitions. [Jan 2005, p.84]

Play Magazine

Demands forgiveness for being over-the-top in its attempt to be wacky. [Jan 2006, p.46]

Total Video Games

A fun title that perhaps tries a little too hard not to take itself seriously; those who prefer their sports titles to have an inkling of sophistication will quickly find the game on its way back to the shop, however if you're just looking for fun then Amped 3 does the job.

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Thunderbolt

Perhaps that doesn’t sound like the most enthusiastic endorsement, but Amped 3 is one of those games that has so many peripheral pleasures that it must be looked at in terms of the whole package rather than the score gameplay (which is polished even if it’s easy).

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PALGN

A highly competent – if not flawed – snowboarding game with a style comparable to no other.

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IGN

It's too bad Amped 3 plays so awkwardly, since there's really a huge amount of content here.

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Planet Xbox 360

But, overall, while the game has it’s unique features, and easy to pick-up gameplay, it may still only provide a very short term game experience with lack of multi-player and replay value.

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GamePro

Simply put, the controls are awful.

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Eurogamer

Amped 3 certainly isn't awful, and will keep you entertained for a long time if you can get past the hideous presentation and get used to its stop-starty nature, but the most recent SSX was enormous too, and treated the sorts of tasks that Amped considers its core as a second string to its traditional racing and tricking.

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Game Revolution

Amped 3 provides all kinds of groovy style and content but wraps it in somewhat bland gameplay. Hopefully the next edition will try and hit the slopes a little harder, maybe even with friends.

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Gaming Age

The completely over-the-top sense of style and the lack of obvious next generation attributes will work against the success of the game.

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360 Gamer Magazine UK

Though technically difficult to fault in terms of playability, it lacks the next-gen "wow" factor. [Issue #2]

Computer Games Magazine

Amped 3 aims to keep you distracted by constantly nickel-and-diming you with a hundred mini-challenges, each with its own pointless reward, spread across a dozen mountainsides. [Feb 2006, p.87]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 7.1 (out of 10) based on 18 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Owabajay M. gave it a9:
Sweet game but somwhat boring after 3 hours and challenges start getting progressuvly harder ... a great game for all ages.

Matt W. gave it an8:
Satirical, nonsensical storyline and very fun game play, have played through twice, enjoyed it immensely both times.

Adrian V. gave it a5:
I agree with Magnus G. Amped 1 & 2 were so much better! Why did they have to go and mess it all up by ruining the presentation and dumbing down the gameplay to appease the casual mainstream SSX crowd? By trying to please everybody with its attempt at a balance between arcade and realism it just ends up pleasing nobody by being too easy and unrealistic! Now where am I supposed to get my simulation fix of snowboarding? Ahhh I guess I'll have to go back to playing Amped 2. I'm hoping now that Indie Built have gone bust that Ubisoft are going to come through with Shaun White Snowboarding.

ACE5 gave it a9:
I hated the first two amped games, because the controls were stupid and the presentation wasn't that exciting. But Amped 3 changed all of that, which is why I liked this game. Q. Why is there a review for this game from a computer games magazine... We know they are all jaded towards console games, and think the greatest thing to play games on is a PC. Which in my opinion is not true cause it makes my hands hurt. Not to mention all the extra time and money you have to invest just to play a game on a PC.

Magnus G. gave it a5:
I was really really disappointed by this game because I really love the first two amped games. They just completely ruined the laid back snowboardfeeling that the other games had. In Amped 2 , if you wanted to do a certain jib trick, you would just pop of the kicker press the rail button.. tweak the trick to satisfaction and easily just tweak a 180 off. With Amped 3, this simply isn't possible. Instead when you try to do a smooth move, you'll end up making a overrotaded spin, land sketchy on the rail, see the game suck the board onto the rail and then finally press x,x,y to do a super nosepress tweak. I just think the depth in the control is completely gone. As far as the story and all those wacky, "extreme-ish" things. They feel just wrong. You can't make a game which story is purely based on some estethic collage. If you would separate the game from it's predecessors, it would be quite a okay game. But if you compare it with the first two games, it's purely something wrapped in a colorful box. The music and sounds are solid as always but that dont make up for the double backflip method's that are done in the bunny suit. I just think that they should re-release amped 2 on xbox 360, with all the levels of amped 1, 2 .. and make a real snowboarding game, for the snowboarders. Peace ut!

[Anonymous] gave it a9:
fun game with a lot of whacky stuff going on.

Max J. gave it a10:
this game is so awsome it is well designed and keeps you entertained for hours. I really wish they had it for X Box.

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