SSX Deadly Descents

[Tobi]

Official site: http://www.ea.com/ssx

Redefining the SSX franchise, SSX: Deadly Descents will pit riders versus both mountain and man. Players will explore the story of a team who seek to be the first to descend the faces of the most treacherous mountain ranges on the planet. The team will travel the world to face the worst that Mother Nature can throw at them. From the peaks of the Himalayas, where the air is so thin that riders have to descend through the death zone at breakneck speeds to keep from blacking out, to the solid ice ranges of Antarctica, where a sunlit line is the only survival option when temperatures drop 50 degrees centigrade in the shade. And the mountain isn’t the only danger players will face. In SSX: Deadly Descents the first goal is to survive. The second, in true SSX fashion, is to look good doing it.

[Gekii]

zzz, gimme back crazy cartoony ssx with awesome stages

[Pikarya]

Call of Duty: Winter Ops?

[Priran]

zzz, gimme back crazy cartoony ssx with awesome stages

this, seriously

what the fuck am I looking at? please EA, stop rebooting your franchises.

[Burningthought]

They need to come out with SSX Tricky-2 or something. It was funny because I was just talking to a friend about how much I missed tricky and how EA should make another one, this however, was not what I was thinking when I thought of SSX coming back.

[Wintermute]

Jesus Christ...the fuck did I just watch?

The only good thing that's come from that video is the Tricky/SSX3 nostalgia.

[Correction]

They shouldn't have called this an SSX game. This reeks of a very different game getting slapped with a franchise label it doesn't deserve as a cheap grab for publicity. Thanks, EA, you've shat on another of my beloved franchises with a darker and edgier look to the graphics and a Generic Faceless Male Protagonist. I can't wait until you put Kaori on a $5 piece of DLC that also unlocks the Zombie Stage.

[Tobi]

SSX: Deadly Descents, announced this weekend during the Video Game Awards in Los Angeles, is a “reinvention” of the classic franchise, EA’s revealed in the game’s official announcement today.

The game, in development at EA Canada for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, promises to “redefine” the franchise, and has the player a team with a dream to go up against some of the most treacherous mountains on Earth. These include the Himalayas, Antarctica, and other notorious mountains. The players’ first goal is to survive; their second: to look good doing it.

“An entire genre was born from the original SSX a decade ago, and it’s time to reboot one of the most popular franchises of all-time in an unpredictable and unexpected way,” said Peter Moore, President, EA SPORTS. “Fans have been begging for this since the launch of this generation of consoles, and we have an experience that will be worth the wait. This franchise has always been about racing, tricks, characters and fun – SSX: Deadly Descents will deliver all of that, and more, on a global scale, with rich online experiences, and with the sense of adventure never before imagined on a snowboard.”

http://scrawlfx.com/2010/12/ssx-dead...fine-franchise

[Priran]

I assure you no one has been begging EA for this

[MisterBob]

Seriously! What ever happened to snowboarding through pinball machines and weird water pipelines on the Hawaiian Islands? I really liked the older games, but the new ones are just boring.

[Tobi]

http://scrawlfx.com/2011/01/first-ss...etails-let-out

SSX: Deadly Descents ain’t no joke. The game features 17 regions spread across the world, with every inch of each mountain being rideable. According to a first look preview from EGM, the developers are aiming for over 70 open mountains in the final game.

So far, the team’s confirmed five regions: Siberia, Himalayas, Kilimanjaro, Caucasus, and The Alps. Each area will feature their own range of mountains. Each mountain will feature its own type of danger. Examples provided to the magazine include: thin air, ice, low temperature, etc. Players can earn and purchase gear that will protect them against certain dangers. Survival is a key element in the new SSX. As is looking good.

SSX 3‘s Elise Riggs will make a return in Deadly Descents. I’m sure she was a fan favorite.

And from Neogaf:

EGM Article on SSXDD is out.

Summary

* Rewind Feature
* 17 regions spread across the whole globe, each mountain ridable in all their 360º degrees of slopes, Stoked style. They're aiming for 70 open mountains. Mountains are generated automatically by the game, including some from topographic data like Google Earth. The producer talks about his programmer asking him to name any mountain, the producer said "Everest", the tech guy plugs that info into the mountain building program (dubbed "Mountain Man), and the program spit out a 100,000+ polygon rendered mountain.
* Regions confirmed so far: Siberia, Himalayas (split into two mountains it would seem, for now), Kilimanjaro, Siberia, Caucasus, The Alps.
* Each mountain is tailored to one kind of danger. Thin air, ice, temperature, will each be the main danger of one mountain range.
* The gear you purchase/earn will be important, each piece may be better to a certain condition/danger.
* Elise is returning. Start guessing who the guy in the trailer is (or it could be a new fella...)
* There will be tracks in the game. They have natural shortcuts (this can mean the tracks could have the feel we're used them to have, the ramps, turns, etc, etc), some of the runs are pinched together, some others intersect

[aurik]

They could remake SSX3 on the PS3 / X360 and I would buy it. Twice.

This deadly descent crap looks crap and I hope it all gets cut because it's crap.

[Callisto]

idk why, the title of the game alone just bothers the shit out of me, they should've just stuck with SSX#

[Gryffes]

SSX games are retarded anyway, bring back coolboarders.

[Charismatic]

SSX games are retarded anyway, bring back coolboarders.

Yep.

[Burningthought]

I wonder if Vin Diesel (I'm thinking of his character in XXX) is gonna make a cameo lol.

[Insanecyclone]

[Correction]

That sure is a whole lot of not showing us the game while pleading with franchise fans by taking 3:37 to say 'oh look it's that guy who made SSX4, making the new game! See, we aren't completely out of touch!'

[Insanecyclone]

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/07/ne...ents-subtitle/


New SSX drops 'Deadly Descents' subtitle

EA Sports looks to still any bad vibes that have reverberated from negative reaction to the debut teaser for SSX: Deadly Descents by toning down the emphasis on "deadly." The company has officially dropped "Deadly Descents" from the game title, Game Informer confirms, and has begun a marketing campaign that, in part, assures fans that developer EA Canada is not abandoning the series' arcade roots in favor of more realistic gameplay in the reboot.

The cinematic teaser, which portrays a desperate snowboarder skidding down a dark and stormy Himalayan slope -- his last words: "I'm not gonna make it," as he shoots over a cliff side and into the air, deploying his squirrel suit -- seemed to suggest that the new SSX would be "moving away from the bright colors and crazy arcade feel of the early titles in favor of a more realistic tone," as Game Informer observed. "Is this true?" the site asked creative director Todd Batty.

"No, absolutely not," insisted Batty, who described "Deadly Descent" as a "new" event type in the game, "which is all about survival gameplay." SSX will also include "Speed Descent" and "Tricky Descent" events, according to Batty. "We wanted to make sure we hit the over-the-top arcadey gameplay in all of these different gameplay modes. We decided to lead with the new Deadly Descent gameplay in that trailer, but all of the classic SSX style will be there, too."

The image makeover isn't fully complete, however, as the original SSX: Deadly Descents logo and name are still prominent on the EA.com game page (as of publishing); though the new, just SSX logo was used in last week's promotional video and is featured on the game's Facebook page. Of course, as Joystiq commenter "ptcamn" pointed out last week, lost in this little fiasco is the fact that EA tried a very similar, "survive the ride" marketing campaign for 2003's SSX 3 -- skull-face lightning flash and all.

[Correction]

EA has completely lost sight of what it takes to excite the franchise faithful.

Play some music from the game
Show a clip of Kaori getting clipped by Gunther
Show the starting gates with 6 racers braced

Bang, done, I'm sold. Munching the name and showing off staff from previous games in full retreat mode isn't the correct path to take to excite me.