A stunning reinvention of the classic action snowboarding franchise, SSX packs adrenaline into every run with compelling characters and heart-pumping adventures as riders battle the most treacherous and diverse mountain ranges on Earth.
GenreAlternative Sports
Platforms xbox360
DEVELOPER EA Canada | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
SSX Reviews xbox360
xboxaddict.com review
There is a fantastic amount of track variants, given that Trick, Race, and Survival play completely different from each other. It’s been many years since I’ve enjoyed SSX Tricky, but the wait is finally over for its true successor (to be fair, SSX 3 was quite good as well, though just not as memorable to me) and I finally have a new SSX game that I’ll be playing for quite some time. There’s nothing quite like outrunning an avalanche or grabbing onto a flying helicopter and doing an Uber trick off of it after using my Wingsuit to soar across the sky. SSX is finally back and the wait has been worth it.
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gamesradar.com review
Chain those together with grinds, which have been modified to allow combo-sustaining poses, and you’ll build up from Tricky (which gives you unlimited boost speed) to Super Tricky to Uber Tricky, which begets ludicrous legions of points the longer you maintain it. It sounds like a simple, logical gameplay loop, and it is.
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spaziogames.it review
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totallygn.com review
SSX has returned bigger and better than ever. You can tell the development team took great care to bring their vision to life and they have given us the best SSX game to date. They have brought back what made SSX so great in the past while seamlessly blending in new concepts to great effect. I can’t really think of any significant problems I had with this game. I can see some people being annoyed at the lack of “traditional†multiplayer but it didn’t bother me personally. If you were a fan of the older titles than this is a game that needs to be added to your library. If you are new to the franchise the tutorials will get you into the action in no time and then you’ll be in for a real treat. The online can also be addictive as your friend’s score continues to taunt you. Do you have what it takes to own the planet?
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eurogamer.net review
Few series have enjoyed such an assured and enjoyable update in the current generation of consoles. Far from being a weary evolution, SSX is a vibrant, eager advance for the Cool Boarder/Tony Hawk’s lineage of extreme sports video games. EA Canada has effortlessly married the score-attack DNA of arcade gaming’s earliest days with some of the most interesting and exciting multiplayer design seen in the past few years. A towering achievement then, as tall as the mountains it so diligently reconstructs.
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teamxbox.com review
SSX doesn’t only look fantastic, it has one of the best licensed soundtracks for a sports game in a very long time. Cruise down one of the over 150 drops in the game to tracks by bands including Foster the People and artists like Pretty Lights. Easy inspiration to stay in “tricky†mode as long as possible comes when a remix of RUN DMC’s “It’s Tricky†plays. Every song in the game is playable in the game’s sound settings (except the aforementioned RUN DMC remix, strangely enough) and the game even allows gamers to use their own custom playlists. Customization can be as specific as to set up what custom songs on the Xbox 360’s hard drive plays during specific situations – a cool feature we’d love to see in more titles.
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oxm.co.uk review
As a series reboot this is perfectly acceptable, but it’s the new and innovative online aspects that make SSX feel absolutely superb. Packed to the brim with clever ideas, SSX is a truly unmissable surprise. While most other online modes feel like painting-by-numbers, SSX shrugs and tries something refreshingly different. This isn’t just brave – it’s brilliant.
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g4tv.com review
The tier milestones are constantly in flux based on the number of players participating and hitting those marks. There’s also a prize pot, with credits doled out to placeholders in each tier when the time on the challenge runs out. Once the timer hits zero, a new challenge is created and the process begins all over again. Some events are free to enter while others cost some credits, in turn making for a larger prize pot as more people join.
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ign.com review
SSX is the video game this generation has been missing. The feeble attempts of other, lesser snowboarding games to capture the adrenaline fueled excitement of SSX don’t compare at all. This is what happens when you don’t just put the game out every year, but spend your time crafting it, creating the ultimate experience. SSX redefines snowboarding games, raises the bar for the genre, then backflips over it.
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gamingtrend.com review
Playing SSX is a little like riding a bike. If you have played it already, it won’t take much for you to get into the game. If you haven’t, then it might take you a little while to get used to the controls and see the lines within each level. However, once you get it, the snowboarding is a lot of fun. It’s really a wonder why EA hasn’t come out with a new SSX game sooner, but as they say, better late than never.
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destructoid.com review
I ran into a few issues — namely the occasionally frustrating level design, which is inconsistent at best — but there’s so much to love that the problematic aspects don’t sully an otherwise terrific game. Between character leveling, equipment, hundreds of drops, and rivalries with friends, SSX is going to provide months of entertainment for most of us. It might have been a long wait, but it was well worth it.
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gaming-age.com review
However, I loved the challenge and I’m happy to see EA not bow down to the masses and give hardcore fans the series remake they were hoping for. Assuming SSX sees some fantastic sales numbers, you best incorporate some multiplayer next time…ya hear?
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3djuegos.com review
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gamerevolution.com review
Despite some rough patches in difficulty, SSX manages to modernize itself with realism, course variety, and seamlessly integrated multiplayer. Even with the courses littered with pits and darkness, they can either be avoided or faced head-on with the same intensity as an epic boss battle. it doesn’t have as bold of a personality than before, but ready or not, SSX is here to stay.
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everyeye.it review
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videogamer.com review
Each of the nine deadly descents plays host to a specific hazard. In Siberia, for example, it’s ice, and you’re encouraged to equip an ice axe to ensure your descent is a safe one. In the Rockies, trees are your enemy, and making it to the bottom alive becomes much easier with body armour. In Alaska, the threat is that of avalanches, where loose snow reacts dynamically to your movements, triggering a torrent of powder that relentlessly snaps at your heels. Undoubtedly the most interesting piece of equipment you can equip is the wingsuit, which allows your boarder to glide across gaping chasms that might otherwise be impossible to traverse.
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incgamers.com review
The world is a little brighter now SSX has returned. Instead of playing on former glory, there’s a real emphasis on ensuring the series feels as though it has evolved. New accessories, cleverly designed mountain ranges and an addictive multiplayer mode make this an attractive investment.
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joystiq.com review
When SSX wasn’t trying its best to push me away, I loved every minute of it. From a mechanical perspective, it’s the best treatment the "extreme sports" genre has received on the current generation of systems thus far. Unfortunately, it’s wrapped in a dirty old program from X-Games ’98 and punctuated with frustrating moments. With such a great base, I’m hoping the next SSX is everything this one could have been.
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edge-online.com review

It’s a concept that’s worked well in other games, from Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time to Race Driver: GRID, but here it feels like a concession to stages that are too unpredictable to conquer first time out the gate and too sprawling to memorise. All too often, you’ll plunge unavoidably to your death and be forced to rewind with icy-grave-given hindsight. It neuters the thrill of reading the slopes, of feeling your way along the ridges and speedily changing your tack on the fly. It gives the track designers an excuse to be cruel, too, where previous games were kind and offered plentiful opportunities to pick your mark and grind it. SSX at its soaring best was about empowerment, not punishment.
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