Just as the name says, it is already a third part of the cult SSX series and it may be safely said, that we can see here a great job of people from EA. Just after turning the game on we can see an intro, which presents us all three peaks on which we will be able to romp about!!! Just after a moment there appears very nice prepared menu. We have a few options, like playing just one competition, multiplayer and a super mode- Conquer The Mountain. I'll tell you something about this mode briefly- just in the beginning we choose one of 10 competitors (all of them have the same notes) and after a moment we are already in the LODGE. Here we can find a very enlarged menu in which we can buy clothes and gadgets for our competitor (boots, pants, rucksacks, jackets, glasses, googles, hats, caps and also some strange gadgets like lasso, crown, boxing gloves) and we can also put them on here. Very interesting option, just like in THPS, is a possibility of buying notes for your boarders, as they are necessary for further playing. As I've already informed our mountainn is composed of three peaks. Everytime, when we choose TRANSPORT option we will be transported to menu, where we choose the peak and a competition in which we are going to try our forces. What is interesting in this game is a fact that we choose the particular competition in which we can fight during the ride- I mean we just turn for the particular place and there we are fighting- e.g. in the halfpipe. While reaching the start gates you can always go round them and ride your track in the FREERIDE mode. And these are competitions which we have at our disposal: halfpipe, race, freestyle, big air, rival.

The last one is just a challenge proposed by other player which consists in completing the route and reaching the finish on the first place or gaining more points than your adversary. This game is just filling us with admiration because of the routes which are very well prepared- it just takes my breath away!! Routes are really complicated, multi-level, bristling with jumps, rails, quarter-pipes and many others, what allows us to make very incredible tricks. It's worth saying that tricks are such an element which are really fascinating in this game. Except all well-known tricks, the producer gave us many special tricks, which are possible to make just after fulfilling a special indicator which in this game is called SUPER UBER. So the producer really fulfilled our expectations and he ensured quite strong impressions.

And graphic- hmmm...- it is better than it was, everything became more plastic and it looks more natural (board is bending professionally) than in previous parts. The game creators implemented many kinds of the ground, what we can feel during the ride. All objects look as they should- very good. Creators added also a few interesting effects, which attracts attention, e.g. blinding sun. Animation just in the first part of SSX was very smooth and it isn't different this time.

SSX 3 brought me to my knees- the best element in my opinion is the music. EA managed to add over 30 licensed, very well-matched and of course well-known pieces of music. But the most important thing is that most songs almost perfectly suits the real madness which we can see on the slope. Very interesting thing are talks between competitors on the slope, during the race; all other sounds are also very realistic (kind of board sound depends on the kind of the ground). In a word- BIG FUN!! You must play this game necessarily!

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