Any snowboarding game where the tutorial mission involves racing down the slope in the giant pink bunny suit is awesome.

User Rating: 8.9 | Amped 3 X360
I'm not a huge snowboarding guy, but I really loved Amped 3 for Xbox 360. I first became aware of the game when I saw it had been nominated for Best Story by Gamespot.com in 2005. A snowboarding game with a great story? Intriguing…

Well it does have a hell of a story. You will almost certainly laugh while playing the story in this game. If you enjoy fun, you will laugh. From sock puppets chasing the elusive yeti, to a Soviet Union game show, to a scrapbooking obsessed former hair metal groupie, to WeinerLand, to Emag Live: the video game destined to destroy the world… and so on and so on. Completely ridiculous and completely fun.

The gameplay reminded me a lot of the Tony Hawk series, except a bit easier (which I like, cause I suck at Tony Hawk) and a lot more fun. There are way over 200 challenges in the game besides the story line, and each one yields rewards and gets you one step closer to the Snow God achievements. The challenges can be repetitive at times, but when they're a lot of fun, that's not necessarily a bad thing. I wouldn't have minded twice as many sled trauma challenges (where the goal is to injure yourself as badly as possible on a "sled" [usually not a sled, maybe a mattress or a port-o-potty or something]).

Any snowboarding game where the tutorial mission involves racing down the slope in the giant pink bunny suit is awesome. After reading that sentence you should already be ordering this game.