Mabe not a must buy game for the wii, but its pretty dam close to being 1...(read on for a full review)
GRAPHICS
Well, the graphics on SSX Blur are in my opinion, amazing, you can see for miles, and there arent many jaggies, and from what iv seen, 0 SLOW DOWNS(wtf are GS talking about? frame rate issues? my ***). Unfortunatly, in Multiplayer the draw distance is noticeably shorter than single player, but this is to keep the frame rate down, which id say is a fair trade.
SOUND
Personally, i do not like the style of music in SSX Blur, but it does grow on you. The sounds comming from the Wii mote are nice and clean sounding and dont cut out for no reason. The sound of grinding snow is very good. And finally they have put in an effect (im not sure if this was in previous games as this is my first SSX game) that when you crash the music stops, the it restarts quitly as u build up speed, and the faster you go the faster and more interesting the music gets, which i think is an excellent effect.
CONTROLS
As with all Wii games the question you will most likely be asking is :" how do the controls handle?". Well, at first they seem, awkward, complicated and frustrating. But after about 30-60 mins of gameplay, the controls will sudenly grow on you, and you will be doing triple backflips with a 720 spin with ease. Moving is as simple as pushing the analoge stick forward to go, and tilting the Nun-chuck to turn, and pulling the stick back to slow down, pretty simple isnt it? To jump you simply flick the nun-chuck up and for tricks you move the wii mote up and down for a front or back flip and side to side for a spin left or right. You can easily make HUGE tricks by combng these simple gestures. There are more advanced tricks which you will find wen u play the game. One more thing...the dreaded UBER TRICK...Gamespot are right, the uber trick is almost impossible to pull off, and it looks good, but this is the BIGGEST problem with the game...you dont even need them, so personally, i dont care if i can do them or not.
GAMEPLAY
Although the career is shortish, it is very fun to do the large variety of events. these include: Stalom, Halfpipe, race, big air, slope style and a few other challenges. You play through 3 mountains competeing in events, challenges and tournements. Every event you complete you unlock it for use in quickplay, or multiplayer which is cool, but is expected of every game imo. Challenges however are different, these comprise of a 1 on 1 race or event and if you win, you unlock a new outfit for your charatcer or a new pair of skiis or a new board. Certain boards give you certain boosts in stats which will help you do certain events more easily. Multiplayer is great, but unfortunatly you cant add Bots to spice the races/events up a bit, but its still solid. Quickplay is gd if you want a bit of practice or if you want to mess around on your fav tracks doing your fav events. Although you start off with a small selection of characters you will quickly unlock more and more by finishing events and tornements.
OVERALL
With a Solid but slightly lacking multiplayer, the unesesary uber tricks and the short campaign this game is definatly worth buying, as it does wat any gd game should do: Make you have fun. This game a VERY enjoyable game and although its not a MUST BUY game for the Wii its definatly a game you should consider buying. Game Spot have definatly under rated this game.