Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2158 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-03-16
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: Nintendo Wii

Manufacturer's Description:
SSX Blur is everything you expect from the franchise, delivered in a totally unexpected way. Revolutionary controls take full advantage of the Wii’s potential by putting you in total command of your skier or rider, on-the-ground and in-the-air, by translating every motion you make into the skills that create mountain legends. One of your hands controls you as you tear down the mountain; the other hand unleashes your virtually unlimited array of aerial manoeuvres. This is the soul of SSX, remixed, re-energized, and fully realised.

Customer Reviews

Amazing, best "winter game" on Wii
This game combines high adrenaline downhill stunts with a fantastic soundtrack. A mesmerizing experience and the Wii controls make it a unique entry for the SSX franchise. Fantastic!

Superb snowboard shenanigans.
The SSX games are, usually, the best snowboarding sims out there, and they've definitely outdone themselves on this one. Like previous installments, you're given a mountain, split into 3 areas, and as you progress through events and tournaments, you're treated to a range of new tricks, boards, views, and increasingly extravagant courses.

The reason SSX Blur is worth your hard-earned cash, is the control scheme. Using the nunchuck for movement and the Wii Remote for controlling your boarder mid-air, you're given a great new sense of control. It takes some getting used to, mind, but there's a huge expanse of area for you to explore, leaving plenty of place for practice.

There's tons to do in this game, and it's guaranteed to last you a good while, but if there are a few negative points, it's that all characters progress through the game separately (meaning that if you, say, wanted to access a far ahead are with a new character, you would have to go back and finish all the necessary events beforehand), and that the incessant babbling of DJ Atomika (which, if you have played Burnout Paradise - you too should know) can start to grate.

VERDICT: Fantastic game. Quite daunting at first, but unravels to be brilliant fun.

Hmm, not as good as SSX TRICKY...
I have bought this game recently and must echo some of the comments already put forward. It is very difficult to get to grips with the controls at first but after a while you really do feel like you're in total control of your boarder as he/she hurtles down the mountainside! The graphics look too busy for me with stuff, words and numbers "going off" in the screen all the time, which i find quite confusing and distracting.
The soundtrack does get boring after a while but the way it speeds up and gets more funky the faster you go and the more tricks you pull is a good idea.
Also, someone mentions that this does not involve you so much as previous releases which i feel is true so far. I really loved the SSX TRICKY game but did not like the follow-up to it very much at all, a classic case of great game made overcomplicated. Playability is often all you need to create a good game, not tons of modes and extras, maybe im just old fashioned...
On a sour note though, this game has crashed on me twice so far and i had to completely reboot the machine. No other game has done this to me on the Wii yet! So thats why the 3 stars.