Steep
SCORE: 75
Family Friendly Gaming was emailed a digital download code for Steep
on the Playstation 4 (PS4). This winter based video game is also on the
Personal Computer (PC), and Xbox One. The download size of Steep is
massive. It is just over seventeen gigs. Physical copy gamers will be
happy to hear Steep is also provided in the much sought after physical
copy format. Steep requires an Internet connection to play. Offline
gamers are not going to be happy about that.
There are four activities family members can do in Steep. There is
skiing, snowboarding, wing suits, and paragliding in Steep. Characters
can also walk and jog in Steep. Those are pretty slow on these large
mountains. There are multiple areas families can visit in this thirteen
and older only rated video game. The Cursed Mountains, Aiguilles, Mount
Blanc, Pointee Percee, Monte Rosa, Switzerland and Matterhorn are places
gamers can visit.
There are a ton of activities to perform in Steep. Some of them are
speed based, and others are points based. Drop zones can be found all
over the place in Steep. The player must use their binoculars to try and
find something in the drop zone. When you get close to a drop zone the
game will let you know. Sometimes I was in the middle of doing something
else. This can be seen in the videos I did of Steep. I hope you enjoy
them.
I wish Steep had a completely offline mode. I do not like having to use
up Internet resources to play a game. Steep really wants gamers to
connect with other gamers. I did not connect so the game developers can
understand not all of us are into that. I wish they would celebrate my
diversity because Steep would be so much better with an offline only
version. There is also bad language in Steep. I had to keep turning off
the copyrighted songs in Steep. I wish those would stay off. It makes
doing videos that much more difficult.
Steep has six main types of game play styles. They are Extreme Rider,
Bone Collector, Freestyler, Explorer, Pro Rider, and Free Rider. The
skiing and snowboarding work really well. There are tons of annoying
spots in Steep that a player can get stuck. Thankfully it is easy to go
to the map view, or restart an event. It took me longer to adapt to the
controls of wing suiting, and paragliding. The tricks in Steep are
spotty at best. Sometimes they work, sometimes they lag, and sometimes
nothing happens.
There is an in game store in Steep. Gamers can purchase different
costumes for their character in Steep. None of them will impact the
stats of your character. That way no one can complain of an unfair
advantage. I enjoyed playing Steep. There is a lot of places to visit in
this game. I wish the bad language had been left on the designers
computer, and not made it into the completed product. I also wish there
was an offline only mode. They could give us avatar characters like what
we see in Forza Horizon games. The graphical glitches here and there are
probably there because of having to connect to servers instead of
playing from disc.
- Teen Gamer
Graphics: 85%
Sound: 60%
Replay/Extras: 80%
Gameplay: 75%
Family Friendly Factor: 75%
System: PC/Xbox One/Playstation 4(tested)
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Annecy, Ubisoft Paris, Ubisoft Montpellier
Rating: ‘T’ - THIRTEEN and OLDER ONLY
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