Amped 2

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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 20 Ratings

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  • Summary: Amped 2 offers a freestyle snowboarding experience with a large and varied trick library. You'll explore vast areas of wide-open, real mountains packed with terrain parks. Play head-to-head with friends in the various multiplayer modes. When you're ready to take it to the next level,Amped 2 offers a freestyle snowboarding experience with a large and varied trick library. You'll explore vast areas of wide-open, real mountains packed with terrain parks. Play head-to-head with friends in the various multiplayer modes. When you're ready to take it to the next level, connect to Xbox Live to check rankings and challenge the world's best virtual riders. Travel the globe, and pull sick tricks in front of sponsors, photographers, and fans. The latest snowboarding magazines or videos feature your photos and demo reels as you become more famous. Climb to the top ranks of the sport, and become a media superstar--all to the sounds of more than 300 killer indie tracks. … Expand
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. Sports Gaming Network
    91
    Whereas most types of gamers are likely to enjoy "SSX 3," only those with an interest in snowboarding will fully appreciate Amped 2.
  2. GamePro
    90
    It's also refreshing that, instead of a wilder arcade-like approach, the game portrays the sport more realistically; it’s a bit more work to pull off a dizzying spin or flip, as it would be in real life.
  3. TeamXbox
    90
    Gives you a bit more "professionalism" than the arcade feel of SSX so it’s a nice blend of arcade fun and authenticity.
  4. Xbox Nation Magazine
    80
    With all-or-nothing rail and jump placement, the game can sometimes feel shorter and more difficult than it really is, while at other times a bit too easy. [Dec/Jan 2004, p.91]
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  5. GameCritics
    75
    Rejects spectacle in favour of the sort of satisfaction that results from a slow culmination of small triumphs—a video unlocked here, a trickbook completed there. In the end, though, it's because of this very process that Amped 2 fails to evoke the butterflies-in-the-stomach level of excitement that I get from playing the very best video games.
  6. Eurogamer
    70
    Microsoft's biggest mistake with Amped 2 was not in shunning its chief competitor's vivacious aerial antics, but in failing to mimic its ease of control and combo structure - areas where the "less is more" idiom could most do with application.
  7. games(TM)
    50
    Disappointment, thy name is Amped 2. [Christmas 2003, p.122]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 3 out of 14
  1. JamesB.
    Mar 26, 2005
    10
    I love this game. Can be frustrating at times trying again and again at challenges, but because it has official pros, videos and all the I love this game. Can be frustrating at times trying again and again at challenges, but because it has official pros, videos and all the extras this game is SICK!… Expand
  2. BoBUser
    Jan 15, 2004
    10
    There's learning curve, but once you get a few tricks down... this game becomes much more addictive and fun than ssx3!!!
  4. LRJørgensen
    Feb 28, 2004
    10
    It`s a mother f....ing good game for christ sake!!!!
  5. DC
    Nov 21, 2003
    8
    Deep and more realistic then other snowboarding games. Not an instant pick up and play game as you have to earn your skills in the single Deep and more realistic then other snowboarding games. Not an instant pick up and play game as you have to earn your skills in the single player which will take ages to complete. Live can be fun but there isnt that much interaction between players.… Expand
  6. Monstr92
    Nov 2, 2012
    8
    Still the best realistic snowboarding game to date! (It's 2012). Why? Amped 2 does right with providing actual landings and probably jumpStill the best realistic snowboarding game to date! (It's 2012). Why? Amped 2 does right with providing actual landings and probably jump cheese-wedges that makes the game realistic feeling compared to those other snowboarding games that build massive jumps to flat landings. The game may be dated, but the gameplay, the controller setup, and the way the game functions is incredible for a game made in 2003. It's fun, addictive, and will have you replaying it until the year 2012. Until, someone decides to build the "skate" of all snowboarding games. Until then, Amped 2 still beats SSX, Amped 3, and so forth.… Expand
  7. MatthieuR.
    Feb 18, 2004
    6
    Sorry, but SSX is, and always has been, more fun. Amped isn't without its merits, but I just didn't get into it as much.
  8. [Anonymous]
    Nov 20, 2003
    1
    This might be one of the biggest disappointments in console history. The original Amped was sweet! This game has the worst controls of all This might be one of the biggest disappointments in console history. The original Amped was sweet! This game has the worst controls of all time! The jumps are in slow motion and the speed of the game is ridiculously tuned down. … Expand

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Awards & Rankings

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#51 Best Xbox Game of 2003
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#46 Most Discussed Xbox Game of 2003