Totally fun, totally lame, totally wacky adventure

User Rating: 8.3 | Amped 3 X360
I really like the visual style that Amped 3 puts forward. It really looks and feels like snowboarding. I know that they have mucked with physics a bit in order to make this more fun, but from a pure enjoyment perspective, some of the runs are really breathtaking!

The story presented is pretty weird and cornball, but a lot of that is what makes it so much fun to progress. I have ot admit that it is a little TOO cornball for my tastes, especially a couple of the side characters.

Still the challenges are very difficult near the end and they ramp up to those challenges nicely. I never was bored with the game - it's all great fun and offbeat.

I'm not sure that there is much replay value in the actual story mode - it's painfully linear and there aren't any challenges that change (no choices). Still they have packed in so many other challenges and events that it really doesn't matter - you could be kept busy for a long time trying to perfect all of the different challenges offered.