While you can use either method at any time, being consistent will score you higher, so you’ll tend to stick with one for a while and learn to perfect it. We found it difficult to retrain our brain to slow down from the standard Hucker style, but pulling off Stylish tricks had its own satisfying reward. Of course, there are numerous cinematic camera angles you can exploit to get the most style out of your successes.
Stoked seems to have nailed the realism factor in the trick system, while still opening up a whole new approach with the Stylish method. It was complex enough that we were far from mastering it after an hour. We can’t tell yet how long it will hold up – will it maintain interest after we get used to the physicality becomes familiar? Will there be enough challenges and interesting hidden nooks to discover on the mountains? Will it be robust where Shaun White was thin, and challenging where SSX was too simple? From what we saw, it looked like it could hold our interest for a while beyond our session, and the crisp crackle of the sound of board on snow certainly got us hankering for the real thing, which is always a good sign.
Jan 7, 2009
