SSX On Tour - Gamecube Game

Reach breakneck speeds, catch huge air, and become an icon with SSX On Tour. Create a rider or skier and build a career as you progress from a slope-side wannabe to a black-diamond-dominating rockstar. Your success moves you up the rankings until you can call yourself the best on the mountain. SSX On Tour is pack with all-new highly detail tracks, new stylish player customization options, new monster tricks, and multiplayer options.

Product Details

UPC: 014633149364
Condition: Used
Genre: Sports
Platform: Nintendo Gamecube
Region: NTSC (N. America)
ESRB: Everyone 10+
SKU: GC_SSX_ON_TOUR

This game is fully clean, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs. This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020.

SSX on Tour

SSX on Tour is a snowboarding and skiing game, the fourth title in the SSX series of video games for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PlayStation Portable. It was release in North America on October 11, 2005 and in the PAL region on October 21, 2005. The PlayStation Portable version was release in Europe on October 28, 2005. In 2007, a prequel title SSX Blur was release, which took place between SSX 3 and SSX on Tour. The GameCube version contains Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach as playable characters. This was part of a deal Nintendo had with EA Sports to have Nintendo's intellectual properties appear in EA franchises.

Gameplay

The gameplay in SSX on Tour is similar to that in SSX 3, with similar controls and the overall aims of events remaining the same - snowboard down a mountain while gaining points for various tricks that can be perform. After each trick, a player's "boost bar" builds up, and once full enables a player to perform special moves. Known as "Monster Tricks" now, previously known as "Über tricks". Despite the similarities, numerous changes were made to the structure of races and events themselves.

Players can now create their own characters, selecting his/her symbol, makeup, height, clothes and hair. In addition to whether they are a snowboarder or a skier (skiing being a new feature in the game). Once create, their 'boarder can compete in official competitions (known as "Events"). Or unofficial challenges known as "Shreds". Each complete event or challenge gains their character "Hype", raising their profile and moving them up the SSX charts, with the ultimate goal of reaching number one.

Custom-Created Characters

With the focus now on custom-created characters, the original SSX cast is moved into the background slightly, appearing in various Shreds against the player. And available to play as when not on the Tour itself. In addition to seven returning SSX veterans (Elise, Mac, Kaori, Zoe, Psymon, Nate and Allegra), three new characters make an appearance: Tyson, Sid and Skye.

In the Nintendo Gamecube version, Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach appear as playable characters. Also in this version, the slope that was name "Last Call" in other versions of the game was rename to "Nintendo Village". With certain textures in the level replace with Mario theme iconography. Unlike its predecessor, SSX3, no online play was include on any of the versions of SSX On Tour. The main focus was on improving the single-player storyline mode, implementing the character-creation system. The selection of new tracks, and the addition of skiing as well as snowboarding.

The PSP version also differs greatly from the main console versions, with limited customization to custom-characters and levels borrow from SSX 3. It also has omit the use of bonuses on the special "Monster Tricks".

Presentation

However, this game is presented in the style of a sketch-book, a new direction for the SSX series. The cover artwork as well as the in-game menus are all shown in sketch formats, simplistic images often on a line background. The special in game collectibles, display as snowflakes in previous SSX games, have been replace with sketchlike doodles known as "skulvis", which were actually controversial within the team according to art director Rich Curren. "When we look at the SSX franchise, everything was shiny and slick and felt too 'produce,'" said Curren. "We use drawings that looked like they were produce by a 15-year-old kid – not even 'good' drawings at that. We commit to this concept and it work."

Description

• Fly down the all-new tracks, and master the new monster tricks for both boarding and skiing.
• Revolutionary new speed-sensitive cameras, motion blur, and controller feedback -- you'll feel the speed as you whip past the crowd.
• Develop your skills and your rep as you go from slope-side wannabe to a black-diamond-dominating rockstar.
• Experience life on the mountain like never before with fresh art, pumping music, grown-up bosses, and new Monsters of Metal and Style Blaster events.
• Rule the Mountain with Super Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach!