SSX 3 comes to the Gizmondo. The hit snowboarding title puts you on a ride you'll never forget. With you and a buddy battling via Bluetooth, SSX3 will have you landing uber tricks and flying down the massive mountain.

Featuring classic SSX slopes, the Gizmondo also brings you 10 characters to race with, each with their own style, abilities, and attitude.

Be the first to cross the finish line in a high speed race or compete freestyle and defy gravity. Shred the mountain to win cash, upgrade your gear, and develop your skills.

The Gizmondo version features: Straight race and Slopestyle, 11 different 3D environments, licensed music, shadow-racing mode and the ability to save your favourite replays.

When you first load the game you can its a polished title with the same video clip and then music playing in the background on the menu screen.

Graphics are some of the best visuals for the Gizmondo in game-wise, the tracks textures have been smoothed and polished off since the beta I played 6 months prior to its final release.

Speed wise it all flows pretty smoothly with the tracks nicely lit up with different light sources making the whole look much better.The characters you control themselves are a little blocky due to low polygon counts but nothing too disturbing.

Draw distance for the most part is alright, though on some corners and long straights you can see it drawing ahead of you which should have been a thing of the past in this generation! Though the good looking hi-res backdrop does hide some of this and finishes of the graphics nicely.

The game options give you chance to change music, SFX volumes, vibrations and camera options are also at your disposal. Loading wise its all pretty quick with tracks only taking around 10 seconds to load up, though with music playing and a course layout on screen its really nothing to lose any marks on.

The game doesn't disappoint in this department with the sound effects fitting the game well and 'crunchy' snow effects as you take a turn and little touches like wind effects as you fly through the air make it sound all the better.

The music is all Indie style music, which may or may not appeal to everyone but it's not too bad and certainly isn't annoying in the turn the volume down sense!

Some of the tracks include songs by The Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim making a total of 25 tracks included in the game, impressive!

It's always a relief when you get a game and the controls feel spot-on and not too tight or loose making the whole game annoying, thankfully the former is the case with SSX3 making it a joy to play.

Most of the Giz's buttons are used, shoulder buttons are used for punching and grabbing, while the control buttons are for jumping and different holds while jumping, it takes no time at all to learn the basic controls and soon you will be pulling off excuse the pun! all the best tricks!

• Good Graphics & Sound.
• Instantly Playable for a quick session.

Along with Trailblazer this is one of the best Gizmondo games to date and is a must buy title, even at full price this is worth the money.

With things like replays, score charts and Bluetooth multiplayer make it all add up to one nice little package and worthy of our hard to get Gizmondo Central Gold Award!

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