Sport: General

[Envisager]

Back in December 2010, EA made a rather exciting announcement about SSX, after a 4 year gap, it was announced that there would be a brand new SSX title!

As a massive fan of this franchise, I was excited by this news, more than a grown man should be perhaps!

So I am dedicating this post to the progress of the game and will be updating it more and more as new details are released!

Before kicking off with the new version, shall we have a look back at the old releases?

History of SSX

SSX

Platform : Ps2

Released: 24/11/2000

SSX Tricky

Platform: PS2/Xbox/Nintendo Gamecube/Game Boy Advance

Released: 2001-2002 depending on platform

SSX 3

Platforms: PS2/XBox/Nintendo GameCube

Released: 31/10/2003

SSX On Tour

Platforms: PS2/XBox/Nintendo Gamecube/PSP

Released: October 2005

SSX Blur

Platform: Nintendo Wii

Released: 16/03/2007

SSX (2012)

Onto the new game then…

One of the first things EA released to tease us with is this epic Teaser Trailer which was first released last December.

Teaser Trailer (Released 13/12/10)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G20NVcMcAk

Looks pretty awesome doesn’t it! The trailer however has given a lot of people the wrong impression on which way the game is going to be made, rumour has it, it isn’t going to be anywhere near as dark as this trailer makes it out to be..

News Update 08/04/2011

Now, this is exciting, some behind the scenes footage from EA Vancouver, which is the first part of three Video Blog entries being released by EA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2rItaYSE6M

Always good to have a look behind the scenes and get a look at the dev team, it’s also reassuring to see that some of the developers go back to the early days of the franchise, hopefully meaning none of the magic will be lost..

News Update 13/04/2011

During EA’s Season Opener event on April 12th, SSX creative director Todd Batty revealed a launch window for the snowboarding revival: January 2012. The game will be playable at E3 in June.

News Update 13/04/2011

This new image of Elise today appeared on EA’s SSX website..

How good does she look! (click for larger version)

News Update 13/04/2011

Lots of news today isn’t there! I have gotten my hands on 4 screenshots for you to enjoy (click for larger version)

News Update 15/04/2011

EA today revealed a competition for one lucky UK resident to fly over to EA Vancouver and be one of the first people in the world to have a go at the new SSX!

Details can be found at this link! http://www.ea.com/uk/news/ssx-competition

[sp33dking89]

D: Thoughs pics of Elise look great! defently keeping it to SSX3>. But crap or not im still going to enjoy it

[MarioKart2007]

There's a Link in this thread to the main EA website for ssx deadly decents. There are3 videos currently, a trailer, and two parts of the devs diary, called 'bringing back ssx'. The third part will be available this Monday. The videos, so far  sound really exciting, in the way they devs are going about making this game. The Video "part 2" is very interesting, loosely describing the graphics and game physics, also take note of the brief to which they are building the game around.

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 " Awesome Easy"

[Envisager]

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MarioKart2007 wrote:

There's a Link in this thread to the main EA website for ssx deadly decents. There are3 videos currently, a trailer, and two parts of the devs diary, called 'bringing back ssx'. The third part will be available this Monday. The videos, so far  sound really exciting, in the way they devs are going about making this game. The Video "part 2" is very interesting, loosely describing the graphics and game physics, also take note of the brief to which they are building the game around.

Quote:

 " Awesome Easy"

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I've seen the other 2 vids, I'm just awaiting them to be uploaded to the UK press site so I can upload it to YouTube

[Envisager]

News Update 18/04/2011

Lots of things today, got a heap of SSX concept art and part 2 of the video blog from EA Vancouver which is showing some awesome pre-alpha in game code!! Exciting!!

Lets have a look first at those concepts, as always, click to enlarge..

and that video blog!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQEDa6-P-I

[Envisager]

I can now announce, I'm heading over to EA Vancouver in May to get my hands on some early code and chat with the Devs of the game!
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Any questions pop them in here and I'll do my best to get them answered for you!

[sp33dking89]

online! thats if they'll allow you but also wil it be like SSX3 with when you win events you earn cash in which you can buy Clothes bags snowboards and raise skill points!

[Envisager]

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sp33dking89 wrote:
online! thats if they'll allow you but also wil it be like SSX3 with when you win events you earn cash in which you can buy Clothes bags snowboards and raise skill points!

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Ooh I have so many questions myself about the online, such a shame it was dropped from 'On Tour'

Anyways, I today got hold of the 3rd part of the video blog, this one is all about Level Design!

http://youtu.be/ROco29db8oQ

[MarioKart2007]

hmmm still waiting for part 4 on the main website, if part 3 is anything to go by it will probably be a couple of days despite the due date being today. Part 3 was due on the 18th of April and uploaded on the 20th of April

[Envisager]

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MarioKart2007 wrote:

hmmm still waiting for part 4 on the main website, if part 3 is anything to go by it will probably be a couple of days despite the due date being today. Part 3 was due on the 18th of April and uploaded on the 20th of April

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I'll ask my contact at EA and check on it's whereabouts