Okay, the first 1080 ****ed me off. It's laughable that they actually tried to market that piece of filth to snowboarders, let alone that most critics raved about it.
Well, this one actually looks different. The graphics have been done up quite nicely this time, it seems as though the damage meter is finally gone, and you can link tricks!
Well, I had to go back and play Amped to reassure myself, being the gigantic snowboard freak I am. You know what? No worries. Sure 1080 has more "sparkle" to it, but it does a lot of things wrong that Amped does right. Take the trees for instance. Would you prefer two-polygon trees or fully rendered, 3d trees? Guess which one Amped has. And the rider animations are just way off in 1080, while Amped does a pretty damn decent job of pulling them off right.
Also, the gameplay looks like classic 1080 style. Narrow pathways, racing down a mountain (literally), only now there are other riders (as in Amped), and you can trigger avalanches. Admittedly you can't actually manipulate the environment in Amped, but Amped isn't a racer, so despite that triggering an avalanche might make a cool jump, the way it's used in 1080 (purely as extra obstacles to dodge around) doesn't really apply to Amped anyway.
I guess that's all I have to say really. I hated the original 1080, and although this one looks to fix a lot of the things the original did wrong, I don't think it'll move me from my precious Amped one bit, especially not when I get to play Amped online!
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