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#14 - SSX 3 (GameCube, 2003)

While SSX (2012) was a great snowboarding game, the game's peak was definitely in the game with 3 peaks, SSX 3. So many hours through it and I never did actually complete it! However, I got almost all of the medals (including some platinum ones) definitely played it more than any other game in the series, more than Tricky or SSX 2012.

There's no story in SSX 3; you have three peaks that unlock as you continue through the game, and your job is to do as much as you can on each one to keep going through the game. Honestly though, it doesn't need one. The game has different stages for races and tricks (except for the backcountry levels at the top of each peak, which are used for both). Trick events are further split up into Big Air events, which consist of a number of large jumps, Super Pipe events, which consists of a half-pipe on which multiple tricks can be performed, and Slopestyle, which is basically the same as the previous game's courses. There's also freeride options when not doing events, and these lead to various other challenges that can be found on the course, and there are snowflakes scattered all over the mountain that give an amount of money when discovered; some are hidden extremely well and may take multiple attempts to get to. Also, since the three peaks are all connected from top to bottom, it's possible to snowboard all the way from the peak of the 3rd mountain to the bottom of the 1st mountain with no loading times - just one straight ride all the way. The developers liked this game more than the rest when they made SSX 2012 as they lifted one of the backcountry tracks in it and snuck it into that game as a bonus (and it somehow works).

The soundtrack and DJ Atomika did a great job here, and it's this game that I took most of the tracks from and added them to my custom playlist like I said on my write-up for SSX 2012. It just works extremely well.

I know I said this in my other write-up for this series, but doing both of these really makes me want a new SSX since we haven't had one since the PS3/360 days. Though given it's a EA series I'm not holding my breath for one anytime soon. Maybe I should just play some more of these games while I wait a bit more.

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