You still have not offered one reason as to why the game is terrible.
I'm not a games journalist, I don't write reviews. It's simply enough that I do not find this the least bit enjoyable.
Maybe I can best describe it by first talking about my experiences with the series.
I will tell you that the first time I played SSX on a friend's PS2, I loved it. I had half a mind to go out and get a PS2 right then. But I had a Dreamcast and was waiting on GameCube. To my great satisfaction, I soon learned SSX Tricky was planned for it.
When Tricky launched about a week and a half after the GC launch, I bought it ASAP and it immediately kicked my launch games (Rogue Leader, Wave Race, Madden) to the curb and stayed in my GameCube for months. I absolutely loved that game from moment zero.
When SSX3 launched, I bought it (this time for PS2, which I bought just before the game launched). Yes, it changed the formula a bit from Tricky, but it took
zero time whatsover to become
one of my favorite video game experiences ever.
These were 3 for 3 for
immediate, 100% satisfaction.As stated, I eventually did get a PS2, and I bought the original SSX and Tricky for it, as well, and gave my GCN Tricky to a friend.
SSX On Tour wasn't the same. I didn't like the rocker angle, I didn't care for the "build your own character" whatever, I didn't like the tracks. It was a severe regression.
This reboot? There are no words. There's no warming up to it. It's just... blech. It's not SSX. It barely even
reminds me of SSX. There's nothing here so far that makes me even think this game belongs in the series. That's all I can do to describe it. I don't like the tracks. I don't like the gimmicks I have encountered so far, and it's my understanding that I have not even scratched the surface of them. I'm just not having fun.