SSX (2000)

Combine full-on racing with a track design that should have "Wipeout's" makers hurrying back to the drawing board and then chuck in "Tony Hawk's" stupendously addictive tricks and you have PS2's finest moment to date.

The courses are well designed, the control is fantastic, and the graphics will ruin your eyes for every other PS2 launch game. Mix all that in with a game that is just flat out fun to play and you've got a recipe for hours of drooling in front of your TV, PS2 controller in hand, wetnaps close by.

The graphics will leave your jaw on the floor. The smooth gameplay will have you thinking you are watching a movie rather than playing a game.

A brilliant blend of fast-paced racing with high-flying trick performing, blended together so beautifully that it has produced a game that feels completely original and in a class all of its own.

Stellar arcade-style fun and one of the best games for the PS2. It's only hampered by some mild slow-down and a steep difficulty curve.

Load times are also an issue. I spent too much time waiting, whether it's waiting to go through menus or for each level to load and reload.

The gameplay isn’t perhaps as tight as Nintendo’s ageing "1080º Snowboarding," but it’s an original take on the sport and deserves all the praise it has received.

This game has long entertained me for hours long after the original "Phat" PS2 I got it with has long died. A pinnacle game in my childhood... I can't say anything more about how great this game is.

Amazing game, if you still own a PS2 and want a cheap fun ride, pick this one up! You will love snowboarding and make you wish you lived in a place that had snow and mountains!

This was a quality game when it first released. Used to play this with friends back in the day. If you own a PS2 and you like snow boarding then this is a no brainer.

When you look at this game and what was out already for snowboarding titles it was a pretty big change. While the style would come more with Tricky this has the grit and elevated the genre to a level only Tricky could surpass. Between the amount of characters and courses as well as the stats and outfits for each there was quite a lot you could do in this game. While other launch title X-Games Snowboarding had way more customization this had the arcade feel down perfect.Pulling off tricks was easy and the stages felt fast and the amount of secret paths were surprisingly high. The music is great and I enjoyed most of the stages except for that one that felt like a pinball map, seriously the bumpers ****. This game also feels really dark graphically and I wonder if that was intended or not. Is it worth playing instead of Tricky? Not really, but there are fun things if you want more games similar to Tricky.

Good visuals and fast paced gameplay. A few major problems. Holding down will make you go faster but if you are holding it and you get the tiniest bit of air you try to flip and fall, which can ruin things easily. While their are many varied tricks, some of the mechanics really ****. Sometimes flipping is really easy and you can do two and other times you will hold it and your guy will barely move. Unless you want to lose a race, don't try one of the major point-scorers because you never know if it will work or not. Finally there is the circuit. They make you race the same map 3 times and even with all the problems and the fact that all the riders are faster than you, even if you are speed and they are tricky, you are supposed to get top 3 every time. This would be fair if they let you restart the race that you had progressed to. But to make the game artificially longer they want you to race the level 3 MORE TIMES. I was already sick of the level after 3 times, but having to do 3 more and who knows how many if I make one mistake, was too much for me. Game like this that aren't long and don't have many maps try to make up for it by making the game seem longer since you have to repeat every course 10 times. Sloppy developing.