User manual GAMES MICROSOFT XBOX AMPED 2 - REVEALED

Jib/Railslide GENERAL CONTROLS Brake/Stop Turn ONLINE ENABLED Accelerate Ollie/Jump Grab Spin & Flip Snowskate Kick Tricks ® Butter Lip Tricks Music Favorites Revealed ! RUB SOME STYLE ON IT WILL BUTTER FOR MONEY XSN SPORTS: PACK MENTALITY GLOBAL COMPETITION: AIM FOR #1 Switch Pull Left or Right trigger to switch your riding stance. Tweaks Pull Left or Right trigger, or both triggers to tweak grabs and railslides. Reset Boarder Pause Free Look Music Track Control 0903 Part No. X09-70175 Get the strategy guide primagames.com® SAFETY INFORMATION About Photosensitive Seizures A very small percentage of people may experience a seizure when exposed to certain visual images, including flashing lights or patterns that may appear in video games. Even people who have no history of seizures or epilepsy may have an undiagnosed condition that can cause these "photosensitive epileptic seizures" while watching video games. These seizures may have a variety of symptoms, including lightheadedness, altered vision, eye or face twitching, jerking or shaking of arms or legs, disorientation, confusion, or momentary loss of awareness. Seizures may also cause loss of consciousness or convulsions that can lead to injury from falling down or striking nearby objects. Immediately stop playing and consult a doctor if you experience any of these symptoms. Parents should watch for or ask their children about the above symptoms-- children and teenagers are more likely than adults to experience these seizures. The risk of photosensitive epileptic seizures may be reduced by sitting farther from the television screen, using a smaller television screen, playing in a well-lit room, and not playing when you are drowsy or fatigued. If you or any of your relatives have a history of seizures or epilepsy, consult a doctor before playing. Other Important Health and Safety Information The Xbox Instruction Manual contains important health and safety information that you should read and understand before using this software. PHOTO>KEVIN ZACHER.COM SPONSOR>K2 Name: Travis Kennerly Parker Sponsors: K2, Bonfire, DC, Smith, Level, AIRBLASTER, ProTec, Milosport Born: Jonestown, TX Resides: Portland, OR Shout Outs: Friends, enemies, family, and Amber. Avoid Damage to Your Television Do not use with certain televisions. Some televisions, especially front- or rear-projection types, can be damaged if any video games, including Xbox games, are played on them. Static images presented during the normal course of gameplay may "burn in" to the screen, causing a permanent shadow of the static image to appear at all times, even when video games are not being played. Similar damage may occur from static images created when placing a video game on hold or pause. Consult your television owner's manual to determine if video games can be played safely on your set. If you are unable to find this information in the owner's manual, contact your television dealer or the manufacturer to determine if video games can be played safely on your set. THE FIVE FLAVORS HUD QUICK START CONTROLS COLD FRONT TUTORIALS CAREER MULTIPLAYER XSN SPORTS XBOX LIVE MULTIPLAYER MODES JUST RIDE SESSION OPTIONS CONTENTS 2 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 15 16 18 ON THE HILL FLYIN' HIGH OFF-AXIS TRICKS GRABS BUTTER & COMBOS RAILSLIDES & LIP TRICKS SNOWSKATE GAMEPLAY CHALLENGES STYLE & LANDING ELEMENTS TIPS CREDITS WARRANTY TECHNICAL SUPPORT 19 20 20 21 22 23 24 26 28 29 30 31 32 33 COVER RIDER>JOSH MALAY PHOTO>JEFF POTTO AMPED 2 1 PHOTO>TREVOR GRAVES SPONSOR>HIGH CASCADE ® ® Name: Janna Meyen TM TM THE FIVE FLAVORS OF Amped 2 FREE RIDE (PAGE 5) Free Ride is for those who just want to get on a hill and start riding. Hone your skills and try to kick your best High Score and Media Score, Best Trick, and Best Combo. All you have to do is pick a boarder and hit it! Sponsors: Ride, Volcom, Velvet, Dakine, 32, Etnies, Snow Summit, Xbox Born: 12 February 1977, Torrence, CA Resides: Bend, OR Name: Mitch Nelson Sponsors: Bonfire, Recon, Dakine, Savier Footwear, Premier, Milosport Born: Farmington, UT Resides: Salt Lake City, UT PHOTO>BLOTTO SPONSOR>BURTON SESSION (PAGE 16) CAREER Name: giG! Ruf Born: October 9, 1981 in Austria Resides: Austria Shout outs: Get Amped and go snowboarding ­ for real! (PAGE 10) Live the dream of going pro. Start riding, get your name out there, get a sponsor, and get famous. Complete Challenges, compete in Events to improve your overall world ranking, and get new mountains to rip up. Superstardom awaits! If you've had your fill of touring the mountain in Just Ride mode, then make it a challenge with Session. Compete against yourself, against a friend, or against up to seven additional players. Session has multiple game types and the ability to set your own rules of play. Players can ride by themselves for practice, split screen with two players on a single Xbox console, or with up to eight players using System Link or Xbox Live. JUST RIDE (PAGE 15) Just Ride mode allows up to eight players to tour the mountain together. No rules, no challenges, no ski patrol. Just Ride mode can be played by one player, two players with a split screen on a single Xbox® console, up to eight players using System Link, or up to eight players through the Xbox LiveTM service. Online leaderboards will track your best scores on Xbox Live games and rank you against players across the globe based on your best High Score and Media Score, Best Trick, and Best Combo. XSN SPORTS (PAGE 12) The Pack. The fundamental snowboarding unit comes to life through XSN Sports. Got some riding buddies you're tight with? Start a Pack and you can ride together, have your scores affect your Pack's overall ranking, and compete together in Events. XSN Sports also lets you create custom Events. Think you're an aerial prodigy? Make an aerials-only Event with up to 64 competitors on one to three mountains and put your skills to the test! PHOTO>JASON BEATON SPONSOR>PREMIER Name: Torah Bright Sponsors: Roxy, Burton, Sobe, Boost Mobile, 8000Reverse Born: Cooma, Australia Resides: Salt Lake City, UT 2 AMPED 2 AMPED 2 3 PHOTO>SHEM ROSE SPONSOR>SESSIONS High Score Displays your current High Score. High Score Goal Displays current High Score goal. When you've completed all three High Score Challenges, your highest score for the mountain is displayed. Media Score Displays your current Media Score. Name: Scotty Arnold Sponsors: Elevation, Smith, Sessions, Vans, Agency, Jacks Garage, Grenade Born: Newport Beach, CA Resides: Mammoth, CA Current Media Score Goal Displays current Media Score goal. When you've completed all Media Score Challenges, your highest Media Score for the mountain is displayed. QUICK START WITH FREE RIDE If you're looking to start riding and aren't interested in a career just yet, then Free Ride is the mode for you. You can ride at any of the mountains that have been unlocked in Career mode. If you haven't worked on your career yet, you'll only be able to ride on the default mountain. The Challenges available in Free Ride mode are best High Score and Media Score, Best Trick, and Best Combo. To get to the slopes, select Free Ride from the Main Menu and then Ride!. Finally, select a mountain and a drop point. You're ready to go! HUD REVIEW Current Trick Score Displays the score total of your current trick. main screen 4 Current Trick Displays current trick name. Combo Multiplier ! NEW Increase the multiplier by stringing together tricks with butter tricks or railslides. Style Meter ! NEW Meter will appear when you're performing a stylish trick. The two meters on the side will fill or empty based on Style points earned. Stance Indicator Indicates stance is switched (opposite your preferred stance). Switched takeoffs are worth more points. Pro Rider for a Day After you select Free Ride from the Main Menu, you can pick Ride as Pro to play as one of 14 pro riders. See what it's like to rip up the hill as a pro! AMPED 2 AMPED 2 5 GENERAL CONTROLS Brake/Stop Move Down to slow or stop. Jib/Railslide Press B to start jibbing rails or boxes. If the rail is above ground level, jump first. See page 23 Accelerate Press and hold accelerate. A to Turn Move Left or Right to turn. Ollie/Jump Release or tap A to jump. Spin/Flip/Off-Axis Move and hold Left or Right to spin. Move and hold Up or Down to flip. Move and hold Diagonal for off-axis tricks. Grab See page 20 When airborne, move and hold the Right thumbstick in one of six directions to grab. See page 21 Butter Move quickly Up and then Down for Tail Butter, or Down and then Up for Nose Butter. Be sure to keep your balance! Snowskate Kick Tricks See page 24 Press X and move the Left thumbstick to select trick. Lip Tricks See page 22 See page 23 Press Y and move the Left thumbstick to select trick. Switch Pull Left or Right trigger to ride opposite your preferred stance. Music Favorites Press b to add or remove a track from your favorites list. Tweaks Pull Left or Right trigger, or both triggers to tweak grabs and railslides. 6 Reset Boarder Press to reset run position. Pause Free Look Music Track Control Tap to skip to next music track. Press and hold to restart current track or skip to previous track. AMPED 2 AMPED 2 7 Name: Jeremy Jones Sponsors: Burton, DVS, Matix, Recon, Ogio, Milosport Born: 2 January 1976 Resides: Salt Lake City, UT Shout Outs: My wife Sher, my family, friends, and sponsors. Tutorials The Riding School tutorials are set high above the treeline on Oregon's Mt. Hood. These short lessons are designed to teach beginners the fundamentals of snowboarding in seven easy classes! To go to Riding School, select Tutorials from the Main Menu and then pick which class you want to take. There are seven classes in all, and each has a lesson and a practice portion. PHOTO>CURTES SPONSOR>BURTON PHOTO>TREVOR GRAVES SPONSOR>HIGH CASCADE COLD FRONT For some people who learn to ride, the infection's immediate. You're daydreaming about powder at work, at school; always freaking for your next day on the hill. You go up two days a week, then three, and then you take the leap and move to the mountains so you can ride non-stop. You're on the first chair in the morning, and everyone who sees that single track in the fresh knows who made it. You don't stop for lunch, don't take your cell, and you're knocking tricks off the "must learn" list like a champ. You're driven--committed. The path is clear: you're going pro. But be ready for harsh times. You'll travel all year, chasing the snow to Switzerland, Australia; to every frozen corner of the globe. You'll live out of bags and crave a home-cooked meal. You won't see your friends and family for months at a time. But you do it, because it's what you love. It's what gets you out of bed in the morning and fills your dreams at night. If you've got what it takes-- courage, style, aerial calm, and legs of steel--you just might make it. ... If you don't end up in traction first. are: able classes The avail Basic Riding Jumping ps Spins and Fli Grabs Rails Style Combos 8 AMPED 2 AMPED 2 9 CAREER The road to snowboarding superstardom is long, difficult, and there's no place to start but the beginning. Still think you have what it takes? 1. You have to make a new career when you first start Amped® 2. Select the boarder's portrait and stance (Regular = left foot forward, Goofy = right foot forward). You can't pick these settings again. 2. Enter your boarder's name and then select Done. (To start a new career or load an existing one, select Choose Boarder from the Main Menu.) PHOTO>ANDY WRIGHT SPONSOR>VOLCOM MULTIPLAYER SINGLE XBOX CONSOLE Hit the slopes with a friend and either select Session mode for competition, or simply cruise together in Just Ride mode. 1. From the Main Menu, select Multiplayer. 2. From the Multiplayer menu, select Split Screen. 3. Select controller and boarder for both players. 4. Select Just Ride or Session. Afterward, you'll select your time limit, mods, Challenges, and so on. 5. Select a mountain and drop point, and step up! Name: Seth Graham Huot Sponsors: Capita, Volcom, APX, Dragon, Level, Milosport, Drake, Ogio, Nixon, Neff Born: 26 March 1977, Bizmark, ND Resides: Salt Lake City, UT SYSTEM LINK Using System Link, you can either link two Xbox consoles with an Xbox System Link Cable, or link up to eight Xbox consoles using an Ethernet hub and standard Ethernet cables. If you have any trouble, refer to your Xbox Instruction Manual. Once your hardware is set up, follow these instructions to start a game: 1. From the Main Menu, select Multiplayer. 2. From the Multiplayer menu, select System Link. 3. Select a game to join or press The above settings can't be changed once you've picked them, so make sure it's correct before you continue! Once you've made a boarder, they'll be available in Career, Free Ride, Just Ride, and Session modes. At any time you can select Change Gear from the Career menu to change your clothes, board, hair... whatever you want! Select Portfolio at any time from the Career menu to see your career status and any rewards you've collected so far. Y to host a new game. SKILL POINTS Throughout the game, you'll earn player and board skill points. Earn player skill points by completing Challenges, and board skill points by winning Events. Skill points are assigned only once, but board points can be set and reset at any time by going to Customize Board in the Career menu. Skill point categories are: Spin/Flip--Speed of rotation Big Air--Amount of air you get off jumps Ollie--Amount of vertical leap Balance--Ease of balancing while jibbing, stalling, or buttering Switch--Proficiency at riding opposite your preferred stance 4. Select Just Ride or Session (both modes support up to eight players). Afterward, you'll select your time limit, game options, Challenges, and so on. 5. Select your mountain and drop point, and you're ready to go! CAREER PROGRESSION & WORLD RANKING As you win Events, get media coverage, and earn sponsors, your fame will gradually spread. Your career progression (Local Rider, Shop Rider, Pro, Superstar, #1, and Legend) is the way to tell how famous you've become. Your world ranking will indicate how you compare to the top riders in the world. Initially, the number of competitors may seem huge--but it'll get smaller in no time if you're diligent with your career. Stick to it! PHOTOS>NATE ABBOTT, RICHARD WALSH SPONSORS>BRECKENRIDGE, LAAX 10 AMPED 2 AMPED 2 11 ® ® PHOTO>ANDY WRIGHT SPONSOR>ATOMIC TM Name: Lynn Jason Murphy They're on every mountain. The varsity. Elite Packs of local riders; always together, tearing up the bowls or just chillin' in the park. Get in with one and you're set up with sweet spots, tricks, and the constant pressure you need to improve. And if your Pack is unstoppable, people will notice. They'll know your Pack by name, and they'll know you're that good. Sponsors: Atomic Snowboards, Bonfire, Hurley, Ally Backpacks, Milosport Born: 28 April 1975 Resides: Centerville, UT Get on the hill with buddies all over the world, no matter how far they might be from the snow! Xbox Live can make it happen. The Pack This important piece of mountain culture makes its debut in Amped 2. Join a Pack of riders, or start your own. Your Pack's ranking is not only affected by how well you ride, but by how well the other members of your Pack ride. To create a Pack, visit www.xsnsports.com. Once you're set up with XSN Sports, you can create a Pack and invite players to join, or you can join someone else's Pack. Packs can have 4 to 16 members and you can only be in one Pack at a time. Global Competition See how you compare to riders across the globe! For Just Ride mode, Xbox Live tracks your scores in order to show your worldwide rank. This way, #1 means #1. Your cumulative best High Score and Media Score, Best Trick, and Best Combo for all mountains are tracked by Xbox Live leaderboards. If you're looking for a little stiffer competition, try out Session mode on Xbox Live. Don't worry about leaderboards here. What happens on the hill in Session stays on the hill. Events So you think you're the style master? Try putting it to the test with a style-only Event. XSN Sports gives you the ability to make your own custom Events. Style, combos, jibs, any way you want it, just set up a start and end date, what mountains will host the Event (you can have one- or three-mountain Events), and up to 64 contestants can take a shot at the title. Keep an eye out for sponsored Events on www.xsnsports.com and win sweet stuff with your Amped 2 skills. To find out whether Xbox Live is available in your region, go to www.xbox.com. Getting started with XSN Sports 1 2 Subscribe to Xbox Live (see page 13 for more info). Visit the Web at www.xsnsports.com to join or create a Pack or Event and pick up your password (don't forget to write it down!). Use your XSN Sports password to compete in Events over Xbox Live. PHOTO>BURTON Connecting to Xbox Live Before you can ride online, you need to connect your Xbox console to a direct or shared broadband connection, and sign up for the Xbox Live service. To determine whether Xbox Live is available in your region, or for more information, see www.xbox.com/connect. Once your account is set up, complete the following steps to play Amped 2 online: 1 2 3 4 From the Main Menu, select Multiplayer and then Xbox Live. Select account name or select Create a New Account. Select what game and online options you want to use. Once you've selected a game type, you're ready to roll. 3 12 AMPED 2 AMPED 2 13 Name: Yoshinari Uemura Sponsors: Burton, Vonzipper, Volcom, X-Trail, Gravis, BFGoodrich Born: Sapporo, Japan Resides: Tokyo, Japan Xbox Live PHOTO>BLOTTO SPONSOR>BURTON MULTIPLAYER MODES You lookin' to play or get all serious? Just Ride and Session modes give you very different types of gameplay. JUST RIDE Tip: If you want to work on your stats without any interruptions, a single player can host a private game. Xbox Live Menu Quick Match OptiMatch Select Just Ride or Session, start shredding! Just Ride allows up to eight players to ride on a mountain and have their best scores posted to Xbox Live leaderboards. One player hosts a game, and can invite up to seven additional players to ride together. The best High Score and Media Score, Best Trick, and Best Combo are all tracked in Just Ride mode. OptiMatchTM searches for a game based on criteria you enter--Just Ride or Session, Mountain, Time Limit, and Collisions (players hitting each other). Create Game Friends JUST RIDE OPTIONS Max Players--How many players you'll allow (up to eight). Time Limit--Amount of time between level rotations (see "Level Rotation" below). Level Rotation--Choose between sequential and random rotations (after you've picked your Just Ride options and selected Continue, you can select which mountains you want in your rotation). Boarder Collisions--You can turn collisions between players on/off. Game Type--Pick a public (open to anyone) or a private (friends only) game. Select Just Ride or Session and create a game. Allows you to send a friend request, accept a friend request, accept a game invite, invite a friend to play (only available after game creation), or edit your Friends List. Statistics Jump to the online leaderboards and see how you compare to players around the world. See your overall rank, level-specific details, category ranking, and high scores (best High Score and Media Score, Best Trick, and Best Combo). XSN Sports Specify your XSN Sports affiliations. Get a Pack or Event ID from www.xsnsports.com and enter them here. You can have one Pack and three Event affiliations. PHOTO>KEVIN ZACHER SPONSOR>K2 Online Options Name: Bobby Meeks Sponsors: K2, Dragon Optics, Demon Snow, Lifetime Clothing, Blindside Snowboard Shop, Snowaccess, Savier Born: A long time ago Resides: Salt Lake City, UT Select Live Voice (Headphones/System Speakers), My Status (appear online or offline to other players). Downloadable Content A banner saying NEW will appear next to this icon when there is new downloadable content available. Select content to download and let it rip. FPO-3 Sign Out Sign out of Xbox Live. 14 AMPED 2 AMPED 2 15 MULTIPLAYER MODES cont. SESSION SESSION SETTINGS In Session mode, you pick a Challenge, and up to eight players can compete head-to-head for the #1 spot. At the beginning of play, the host will select the mountain, time limit, game type, drop point, snowboard or snowskate, and any available options. Trick Race--In Trick Race, the goal is to be the first player to reach the bottom of the run. Each run you pick will have certain features marked with colored circles. Start your trick in the colored circle and earn the minimum score, but be careful. If you miss a trick, or you trick but don't beat the minimum score (see "Point Threshold" below), you'll be penalized by being frozen in place for a few moments. Ranking is determined by the order in which players reach the end of the run. Host options: Max Players--Select the maximum number of players you'll allow in your game. Rules Selector--Specify who gets to select the settings for the next round. Your options are Sequential (default), Random, Overall Winner, Winner, Loser, Overall Loser, and Host. Boarder Collisions--You can turn collisions on/off to either allow or eliminate crashes between players. Game Type--Xbox Live feature. Choose between a public game (open to anyone) and a private game (friends only). SESSION LOBBY Pick from the following game options to customize your Session: Time Limit--Available in High Score, Best Trick, and King of the Mountain modes. Determines how long the Session will last. Time Penalty--Available in Trick Race mode. Determines how many seconds a player is penalized for missing a trick circle. Board Type--Choose Snowboard or Snowskate. Scoring Modifier--Available in High Score and Best Trick modes. The player can select one scoring modifier (mod) at a time. This determines which tricks are going to count for the run. For example, selecting Style Only means that Style points count, while No Style means that Style points don't count. Point Threshold--Available in King of the Mountain and Trick Race modes. This feature sets the point threshold for initially capturing a star in King of the Mountain mode or successfully passing a checkpoint in Trick Race mode. Crash Penalty--Available in High Score and Best Trick modes. Sets the percentage point penalty for crashing. SESSION TYPES Different game types available in Session: High Score--Players ranked based on their total High Score when time runs out. Best Trick--Players ranked based on the score of their Best Trick. King of the Mountain--In this mode, some trickable features have stars hovering over them. To capture one, you have to trick on or very near the star and earn a certain minimum score (see "Point Threshold" on page 17). Recapture another player's star by tricking on it and beating the owner's score. The player with the most stars at the end of the time limit wins. 16 AMPED 2 AMPED 2 17 Name: Mikey LeBlanc Sponsors: Holden, Iris, Ride, DVS, Matix, APX, Drake, Milosport, Coal Born: Topsham, ME Resides: Salt Lake City, UT Shout Outs: To all my family and friends, I love you all. To presence, happiness, awareness... PHOTO>MATT SICKELS SPONSOR>RIDE OPTIONS Select Options from the Main Menu to get at your game settings. GAME OPTIONS Turn the Controller Vibration on/off, change the Camera Distance, change the Button Layout, or turn Hints on/off. AUDIO Adjust the Sound Effects, Music, and Speech volumes; also, enable/disable the Song Info display, Shuffle Play for music playback order, and special audio processing for using headphones while playing the game. Name: Gigi Rüf Sponsors: Burton, Volcom, Nixon, Clae Footwear, Dragon Optics, Backyard Born: 9 October 1981, Austria Resides: Austria PHOTO>BURTON SPONSOR>BURTON SOUNDTRACKS Enable/disable Amped 2 soundtracks or add your own custom soundtrack to the game's playlist. Note: Favorites--Hear a song in the game you like? Press b to add it to this list. Sick of a favorite song? Press b again to remove it. ON THE HILL Everyone approaches the mountain differently. Some riders are powder fiends, on a quest for the fresh. Some are cruisers, who love the alpine scenery as much as carving big turns. Some are urban jibbers who are riding snowboards, but thinking skate. But the riders you know, the top freestyle pros in magazines and on the tube, are something else. Sure, powder and mellow cruising are part of the program, but these athletes are constantly innovating. They're intent on taking this sport to the next level. Today's progressive heavyweights are building the legacy of freestyle snowboarding by bringing aerial maneuvers and techniques into uncharted territory. They're the leaders of the new school, defining the sport and continually upping the ante. It's expression for these freestyle artists and you never know what they're cookin' up; tricks full of spinning craziness you can't believe and steady, steezed-out creamy goodness. These hard chargers work with the fear. In that frozen airborne moment, they spin, grab, and flip. If a brutal slam is in the cards, so be it. Danger and injury come with the territory, but it's worth it when the fans can say, "I don't know what that was, but it was smooth!" LIVE OPTIONS Switch the output for your Live Voice (headphones or speakers) and whether or not you Appear Online. CHEATS Enter cheat codes. While a cheat is on, the game cannot be saved and you cannot play multiplayer games. CREDITS Take a look at the people who made it all happen! 18 AMPED 2 AMPED 2 19 FLYIN' HIGH You've got to get comfortable in the air. Start small and get used to the timing. When you can pull some air and land easily, then you can start mixin' it up. GRABS Ollie/Jump Press and hold A to accelerate. Release or tap A to Ollie. Stylish and not too difficult, grabs are the meat and potatoes of your trick arsenal. You don't leave your axis to do them, so they're pretty easy for beginners to land. Directions below are for Regular stance, so remember that Goofy reverses grabs left to right. Tip: Remember to hold the grab as long as possible and also release it before you land or you'll be eating snow. R Nose Tip Spinning Move and hold the Left thumbstick to the Left or Right to spin. Move and hold the Right thumbstick Up for a Nose Grab. Flipping Move and hold the Left thumbstick Up or Down to Front Flip or Back Flip. R Melon Mute R Move and hold the Right thumbstick Up/Left for a Melon Grab. OFF-AXIS Off-axis tricks are best described as equal parts spin and flip, well-shaken, and served cold. These moves are tricky `cause you're off the traditional spin and flip axis, so it's harder to orient yourself afterward. The key? Hold the Left thumbstick in one direction until you've made a full rotation. Don't move the stick around or you'll go way off! R StalefIsh R Move and hold the Right thumbstick Up/ Right for a Mute Grab. Indy R Move and hold the Right thumbstick Down/Left for a Stalefish Grab. Move and hold the Right thumbstick Down/Right for an Indy Grab. Tail Tail R Corkscrew Move and hold the Left thumbstick Up/Left or Up/Right. Rodeo Move and hold the Left thumbstick Down/Left or Down/Right. Tweaked Grabs Move and hold the Right thumbstick Down for a Tail Grab. As your career progresses, you'll be able to learn tweaked grabs from pro riders by passing Pro Challenges (see page 27). Pull the Left trigger, the Right trigger, or both triggers simultaneously to tweak a grab and add style and difficulty to your trick. PHOTO>PAUL AMYOT SPONSOR>BEAR 20 AMPED 2 AMPED 2 21 Nose Butter Balance Meter Tail Butter Jibs/Railslides To jib or slide on a rail, first you have to reach it! Approach the rail (or whatever feature you want to jib!) and Ollie onto it by pressing A. Then move the Left thumbstick in one of the directions listed below and press B at the same time to perform a jib. If you don't pick a direction, you'll do a 50-50 or a boardslide by default. Rotate on the rail by holding down B and pulling the Left or Right trigger. When you're jibbing, keep your balance by moving the Left thumbstick Left and Right. Also, try tweaking your jib by gently pulling the Left or Right trigger. RAILSLIDES & LIP TRICKS BUTTER & COMBOS Butter The butter is a ground trick where you balance either on the nose or the tail of your board as you go down the slope. Tail Butter--Move Left thumbstick quickly Up and then Down Nose Butter--Move Left thumbstick quickly Down and then Up While buttering, keep your balance by moving the Left thumbstick Up and Down. Also, you can turn by moving the Left thumbstick Left and Right. To stop buttering, press A to Ollie or pull the Left or Right trigger to do a butter spin. Also, you can tweak your butter by gently pulling the Left or Right trigger. Nose Press Noseslide 7 7 77 Frontside Noseslide Frontside Boardslide Boardslide L 7 5-0 77 7 Combos The combo system in Amped 2 is based around butters and railslides. At any time, you can go into a butter to initiate or sustain a combo. Say you're lining up a rail followed by a jump. Jib the rail and then, just as you're coming off the rail, start a butter and hit the jump. The three tricks are now linked. Or you can transfer from rail to rail. There is no limit to how many tricks you can string together. Don't forget to mix it up--throw in jibs, lip tricks, or aerials. Use your imagination. Tailslide Backside Tailslide Lip Tricks A lip trick is when you balance on a rail or other jibable feature. Approach the lip perpendicularly and at the same time press Y and move the Left thumbstick in one of the directions listed below. Nose Disaster 7 7 7 5-0 L Blunt Indy Nose Pick 7 Hand Plant 7 PHOTO>PAUL AMYOT SPONSOR>BEAR Balance by moving the Left thumbstick Up and Down. You'll do the trick until you lose your balance or press A to hop off. AMPED 2 23 22 AMPED 2 7 SNOWSKATE As if snowboarding isn't hard enough, somebody has to make a board that you can't strap on! The snowskate opens up a whole new degree of difficulty for riders who are up to the challenge. Jibs, spins, flips--it's a whole new game with the snowskate. Skate Jibs These moves in white replace the standard board jibs (B+Left thumbstick): Skate-Only Grabs Nose Press SNOWSKATE Flips/Off-Axis Tricks To do a trick where you're inverted, you have to hold onto the skate. So for flips and off-axis tricks, you need to perform a grab as you start and keep holding it until the trick is finished. Let go of the grab before you land or you'll crash! One-Footed Noseslide Boardslide 7 77 One-Footed FS Noseslide FS Boardslide 5-0 Kick Tricks The biggest difference between boarding and skating is the kick trick. While airborne, do them by pressing X and moving the Left thumbstick in the direction you want. Front Foot Impossible Kickflip 7 Heel Flip 77 Impossible Skate Lip Tricks The lip tricks in white replace the standard snowboard lip tricks (Y+Left thumbstick): Sweeper 7 Blunt 24 AMPED 2 7 Boneless 7 7 Pop Shove-It L FS Shove-It Name: JP Walker Sponsors: Forum, Special Blend, Oakley, Circa, Nixon, Milosport, Zoo York Born: Salt Lake City, UT Resides: Salt Lake City, UT and Encinitas, CA Shout Outs: Roberta Rodger, Mitch Nelson, Jeremy Jones, all my friends and family. PHOTO>BLOTTO SPONSOR>BURTON Nose 7 L Backside Boneless One-Footed Hand Plant 7 One-Footed Tailslide L One-Footed BS Tailslide Some of the sickest interaction between human and snow. There are a whole group of tweaked grabs that you can only do on the snowskate. Experiment and you'll see tricks you never thought you'd see on the hill! 7 7 7 7 PHOTO>MIKE ESTES SPONSOR>PREMIER 7 7 7 7 AMPED 2 25 GAMEPLAY CHALLENGES To get your career going, you'll have to pass the following Challenges. Don't worry if you fail a Challenge the first time because you can repeat them `till you get it right. PHOTO>ANDY WRIGHT SPONSOR>PREMIER If you're lucky, you'll meet a local pro who likes your stuff and wants to go riding. They'll be your best friends, and you can learn sweet tricks from them, but you've got to prove yourself. Follow their line and trick where they trick. Colored circles indicate where you start a trick (green = easy, blue = moderate, yellow = hard, red = really hard). Miss three tricks, or the last trick of the run, and you fail. pro own the mountain To really get to know a mountain, you have to spend some time exploring. There are three Own the Mountain Challenges--Snowmen, Tricks, and Gaps. At any time, press the START button to pause the game and select Challenge Checklist to display your Own the Mountain Challenges. Snowmen--There are eight snowmen on each mountain that you have to find and hit. Some are in hard-to-reach places; but if you like to explore, you'll track them down. The best way to find them? Use your ears and if you hear a really strange voice, you're getting close! Tricks--There are five Trick Challenges on each mountain. They may be simple tricks (Mute Grab), scores (do a 10,000 point trick), or advanced tricks (do a 20,000 point style trick). Gaps--Each mountain has five gaps that you have to jump. Gaps are indicated on the mountain by a colored arc. A gap is completed if you make the jump and don't crash. hIGH SCORE On the road to snowboarding fame, your first challenge is getting attention. Word of mouth is your best friend for hooking media and potential sponsors; fellow boarders, people on chairlifts, you gotta blow `em away. The blue bar under the trophy icon on the top-left side of the screen is your High Score goal, and each mountain has three. Also pivotal to getting your career rolling is impressing the media. All over the mountain there are photographers with just one thing on their minds: getting the sickest shot of the day. Kill it in front of them, and you can guarantee that they'll talk about it later. Get media points by tricking near media icons. Each mountain has three Media Score Challenges. media Score events legend Sponsor Impress the locals, get the media stoked, and the sponsors will come. If a sponsor approaches you, it's a chance to impress them and maybe get free stuff. You're told who the sponsor is and what trick types they like. Just relax, do the tricks they like, and try hard not to crash. If you're good enough, you'll be invited to compete in an Event. Events are all-important in taking that next step in your career. Place in the top three to pass the Challenge and progress to the next career level. Photo Shoot When you start to get your name out there, you'll have the media knockin' down your door to get shots of you. Make it through all the colored rings and beat the listed score to pass the challenge. So you've completed every Challenge. You're ranked #1. What's left to do? If you're driven, you have the chance to earn a place among the greatest ever and become a legend. Each mountain has a Legend Challenge, but be warned, you haven't seen anything like them, and there's no shame in quitting, but no glory either! PHOTO>TREVOR GRAVES SPONSOR>HIGH CASCADE 26 AMPED 2 AMPED 2 27 PHOTO>ROB MATHIS SPONSOR>VOLCOM STYLE & LANDING STYLE Name: Bjorn Jon Leines Sponsors: Forum, Volcom, Oakley, Celtek, Circa, Wildcats Born: Minnesota Resides: Salt Lake City, UT Shout Outs: WC and Smith Camp. Style in Amped 2 is a way to get lots of points for controlled, smooth tricks. A big air with a single 360, a single flip, or a long railslide where you have controlled rotation are all moves that could have buckets of style. Style isn't about the craziest trick, but about who can make it look the best. LANDING LANDING LANDING How It Works Style is about control. Jam the Left thumbstick, or try to go for max rotation, and you won't get any Style points. Perform the move by holding the Left thumbstick about halfway between the edge and the neutral position. Tweaked grabs have lots of style. Slowly pull and then release the triggers to tweak your grab in a stylish way. Avoid quick direction changes in the air, and keep your movement consistent for maximum Style points. LANDING ELEMENTS Back when I still mostly skied, a friend and I went up for a quick session before work and I found myself staring in horror off this beast of a cornice in the middle of a crazy Utah blizzard. It was his favorite spot; a quiet run, way off the west side of the uppermost bowl. Few are willing to cut across runs and through trees to get there, so usually it's just him. My fifth time up (count `em, 5) and I'm faced with this. I was panicked, but I just took a breath, settled my nerves, and slid off the edge... right into perfect, thigh-deep powder. It was a defining moment, silent and splendid. I leaned back, pointed my deck downhill and let gravity do its stuff. It was effortless. I was elated, hooked. Sold. Deep in my closet, where my skis live now, there's this huge wolf spider who's spun a web into their bindings. I don't see any reason to bother her. I'm not using them anymore. 28 TYLE So-So AMPED 2