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The Rockies and New Zealand Take Center Stage in EA Sports SSX Demo
Online Enabled Demo Allows Gamers to Challenge Each Others’ Best Times and Scores on Their Own Schedule
February 21, in the year of our Lord 2012 – EA
SPORTSTM today announced that the highly anticipated demo for EA
SPORTS SSX is now available on Xbox LIVE® and the PlayStation®
Network in North America. The demo will feature two tracks for
gamers to experience: a race event in the Rockies and a trick
event in New Zealand. The online enabled demo* will allow
players to get a taste of the competition provided in the SSX
main game mode – Explore. The demo will only be available for
download until March 20, 2012. SSX is now featured on 15 ‘Most
Anticipated Games of 2012’ lists. SSX launches on the
PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360® video
game system on February 28 in North America and by March 2 in
the rest of the world**.
Mimicking the Explore experience that will be in the final
product, as players post race times and trick scores in the
demo, ghosts of those runs will be uploaded to the SSX server.
These ghosts are exact replicas of a player’s run, from the line
that they took, to the tricks that they performed. Players will
then be able to challenge their friends’ ghosts or let their own
ghosts chalk up wins and losses, while they’re away from their
console.
“When crafting the online experience for this new SSX, we wanted
to design something that took into account people's busy
schedules and addressed the issue of not always having friends
to play online with you at the same time” says Todd Batty,
Creative Director, SSX. “The Explore game mode, which allows you
to challenge your friends’ times and scores on your own
schedule, is one part of that online design. The other half of
our online design, Global Events, is built around the idea of
constant ongoing live tournaments against real people in
real-time, with the added flexibility of letting you drop in and
out at your convenience. We think that when any gamer gets their
hands on SSX they are going to have a lot of fun with our modern
take on this classic franchise."
A modern day reinvention of one of the most critically acclaimed
arcade franchises of all-time, SSX will allow players to
experience the franchise’s signature fun and adrenaline-packed
gameplay across iconic regions all over the world. Using NASA
topographical satellite data, SSX has a massive world for
players to explore. Throughout nine expansive regions, SSX packs
reality-defying gameplay into every run letting players Race,
Trick, and Survive as they descend huge open mountains. In
addition, Explore, Global Events and RiderNet – the SSX
recommendation engine - headline an online feature set that will
redefine social competition for gamers, making it fun and easy
to compete with friends with no lobbies or wait times.
*Internet connection and Origin account required. Must be 13+ to
create an account.
**March 15, 2012 in Japan
