Freekstyle
Freekstyleby Electronic Arts
Platform: PlayStation2
ESRB Rating: Everyone
ASIN: B00005V6BC
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Features:
• A go-for-broke motocross experience
• Pull off sick stunts in over-the-top worlds
• Win by being the most fearless
• 9 different venues
• Over 80 tricks including the McMetz, Saran Wrap, and Superman Seat Grab
Amazon.com: Freekstyle, while generally a strong game, can't help but be the lesser cousin of EA Sports Big's smash hits SSX and SSX Tricky. The moves are more complicated, the learning curve is steeper, and the charm is relatively absent for this title compared to its more successful predecessors. And woe to those who miss a steep jump and expect to hit Restart, as in SSX. You'll be forced to take the jump again, with much less velocity than before you wiped out. Plus, you'll need to hit it over and over and over, a fact that makes initial play somewhat tedious.
Still, it's unfair to punish Electronic Arts for their past perfection. On its own, Freekstyle has plenty to keep motocross fans happy: courses both for tricking and racing, real-world riders, and complicated road maps filled with pleasing secret shortcuts. --Jennifer Hauseman
Pros:
Gamers can do multiple top-speed tricks in "bullet time"
Good game mechanics and environments
Real-life motocross champions
Cons:
Boring music and graphic design
Steep learning curve
Amazon.com Product Description: Freekstyle is not about being the fastest; it's about being freekin' fearless. Battle the world's newest aerial daredevils out of the turns, through the whoops, and in the air, and, when it's all over, storm back up to the top of the hill and do it again. The game includes nine different venues to challenge riders on some of the most outrageous freestyle terrain around--tracks such as Rocket Garden, Crash Pad II, Monumental Motoplex, and the ultimate big-air course, Big Sky. The 80-plus tricks include the McMetz, Saran Wrap, Superman Seat Grab, the Roll, the Helicopter, and the 360. Score big with each, or, better yet, combine them for bonus points.
You can choose from eight riders, each with his or her own unique attitude and riding styles. They include freestyle sensations Mike Metzger--leader of the Metal Mulisha--Brian Deegan, Stefy Bau, Clifford "The Flyin' Hawaiian" Adoptante, Jessica Patterson, and Greg "Albee" Albertyn. An innovative scoring system challenges even the most fearless dirt demons to hold that Lazy Boy for just one more second. Say "see ya" to the barriers and constraints of licensed tracks and venues and "howdy pardner" to the world of Freekstyle--inspired by the sport and embracing the extreme lifestyle of moto X racing.
Customer Reviews:
Freekout Time, November 24, 2002
Reviewer: A gamer from Sherman Oaks, CA United States
Freekstyle is a BMX 'anti-sim', for lack of a better term.
Raising the bar of floaty physics in videogames to a new height, EA Big manages to apply the framework and general concept of its other smash hits (NBA Street; SSX Tricky) to great effect without it feeling rehashed.
One concept that is used particularly effectively here is the emphasis on learning all tricks and combos. Progression is based on mastering all moves available to you, as new riders, bikes and tracks will open up as you pull of a greater variety of mid-air antics.
Also, much welcomed are the various modes of play which assure that you'll be feeling the burn in your wrists and thumbs for weeks to come.
Graphics - 5 Stars (Highly detailed and stylized with a different feel for each rider)
Sound - 5 Stars (Great music with MTV style credits in the corner at the beginning of each song. Also good voiceover work with a wide variety of phrases, overall)
Gameplay - 5 Stars (Starts out relatively easy, but requires you to maximize variety along with precision to advance. Once you start figuring out button combos, and then trick combos you won't be able to stop until you do them all. The inclusion of Freeride and Freekstyle modes is massive)
Overall - 5 Stars (If for no other reason, then for the Freekout meter, which fills up after you pull off enough mid-air combos - allowing you to bust out a 'super stunt' which is triggered by pushing all four shoulder buttons L1, L2, R1, R2. Each bike has a different super trick, but once you pull it, your rider will switch into 'Freekout' mode which is like putting Max Payne on a BMX bike with Bullet Time enabled. Super cool.)
hell yeh, October 29, 2002
Reviewer: A gamer from Garden City, KS
If you thought you couldn't ever make your dreams come true. You thought wrong, now you don't need to go to the X GAMES you have the Xtreme games in your own house.
Annoying to restart over and over, October 4, 2002
Reviewer: A gamer
This game is a great game and all but it can get very annoying for example when you do a trick and he/she can't get their foot back on the bike on time or on Burn It Up (the track) boulders will come and if just a slight part of your bike hits the rock then you go flying. When you fall I think you go way to far and then if you were in 1st place youll be in 6th place (last). I pretty much agree with the amazon[.com] review. But it still has interesting coures but some tricks youll always need a boost to get to the other side and youll have to restart. But overall its an OKAY game. P.S. if you think I dont know anything about the game, I've played every stinkn level many, many times, all of the tracks have their own "twist" to them if you want to know.
Great racing game with a lot of cool features, September 24, 2002
Reviewer: bixodoido from Utah, USA
This is a great racing game, full of all the fast-paced, road-rash, in-your-face action that you would expect from a game like this. Choose from a lot of different players (each with their own form of trash talk) and a lot of different bikes, and go for it.
Even better (I think) than the races are the versus courses, the trick tracks where your objective is to do as many tricks as possible. The one with the unfinished house is great, and you can just imagine a band of hoodlums wreaking havoc on a construction crew's labors. This game is all-around fun.
Freaken Sick S--T, August 29, 2002
Reviewer: G.A. from Ver. OH
For all you crazed fast paced race nuts out there this game rules!!! I can tell you one thing there is never a dull moment, a little hard to just move right through, but if it was'nt then it would really be boring. anyway! the graphics could use some tightening up,but it's bad as ... exciting and well worth it race nuts.The thing that really made me jump was the totally sick stunts,the massive air you get and the combinations of stunts you can pull off not to mention the non stop action, I have MX 2002, I tried MX Superfly not bad, but no different than MX 2002 don't waste the money still not bad but a little too stiff to corner and as slow and as boring Freekstyle blows it out of the water hands down!!!!!!!!!!
AWESOME GAME, August 27, 2002
Reviewer: Teenage Gamer from New Hampshire
I have played the demo for Freekstyle and it looks awesome. I have two other great games, GT3 and Twisted Metal Black, but I find myself playing the one race in the demo over and over again!
Hard..... But Great, July 24, 2002
Reviewer: Cool Kev from CA
This game was a game I thought would be OK, but when I removed it from its case, put it in the PS2, turned it on and started to play, I was amazed!
The graphics are impressive (9/10)
The Gameplay is amazing (9/10)
The controls are ver handable (10/10)
The sound is sweet (10/10)
And the tilt is the best! (10/10)
EA Sports Big and 44page Develepors did a very impressive job on this one and hopefulley there will be another one just like this!
SSX Tricky on Dirt it ain't., July 17, 2002
Reviewer: Jacques L Capesius from St. Paul, MN
I got this game the first chance I got, plunked it in and started to play.
And I got my [behind] whupped.
I chalked that up to me needing to learn the system. So, I kept on Circuit mode. And I got my [behind] whupped again. And again. And again. I was getting better - landing the jumps, doing the tricks, but damn, the AI was just so cheap, and seemed to have better bikes, better speed, better everything. I kept getting beaten, and not just by a hair. I'm talking last place finishes. Frustration started to set it. It was firmly entrenched 5 days later after countless attempts to beat the second race in circuit mode. THE SECOND RACE!
My point is, Freekstyle is a solid racing game seriously dogged by overly tough AI. The courses, tho cool, are not up to the level of SSX design, and they get old fast, especially considering each heat of a race is three laps, and each race has three heats. That's nine laps per race, people. The tricks are cool, but without the ability to flip and turn, coupled with the fact that it takes much longer to pull off a trick here than in SSX (You need major air to get a double. You'll be lucky if you can pull a trip. Forget about a quad.), you're limited in what you can do in the air. And of course, you get penalized for repeating, but again, you'll exhaust the trick options pretty quickly in this game. And you need to land tricks to get boost, and you absolutely need boost to have a hope of placing in the top three. Throw in a good measure of lady luck and you just might finish first.
This game does have some neat shortcuts, but they're too few and far between, and what's more, they consist of things like a jump that lets you skip a turn in the track. There's nothing that takes you into a completely different part of the board from the track like in SSX and Tricky, save a mine shaft you can drive through in the first board.
Not that I hated the game. The graphics are sharp, the racers pretty cool (Mike Metzger is a goof. He's great.) and the trick animations are awesome. The music is also solid if you're into the New Metal sorta thing. Seems to go with the dirtbike theme well. However, none of these were able to compensate for my frustration with the AI and somewhat bland level design, and I wound up taking this game back and going back to SSX Tricky, which I've been playing somewhat religiously for half a year now and still get a tremendous kick out of.
Bottom line, if you're a bike game nut, and you're good at it, this game's probably for you. If so, please buy it and each time you win, give the computer racers the finger for me.
Freekout mode all the way!!, July 8, 2002
Reviewer: Jared from Clinton, IN
This game is much in the shadows of ssx, it has the same trick system, but has a new feel to it. You can get huge air with little effort on almost all of the ramps. There are fire circles in some spots that if you do a trick while you go through will give you extra points. The game is pretty hard and has nowhere to set the difficulty that i could find, i wouldnt reccomend it if you get frustrated very easy, you can go through a whole track perfect, screw up in the end and have a guy pass you in a second. I enjoyed the arcade sounding announcer. There are enough tricks here for it not too get old having to do tricks for boosts and such. The characters are typical for this type of game. One feature that i really enjoyed was the freekout mode. This is where after you do tons of tricks, you get super speedy with a blaze of fire on the back of your bike and get to continue your rage by doing even more tricks, this is very fun if you can keep your control. The graphics are not very great, but are probly worth a 7.5. All in all, this is a very fun game, just dont go into it expecting something as great as ssx, just something to play for an aftertaste.
I Like Food, July 6, 2002
Reviewer: A gamer from The Woods Outside Washington
You Cant run over rabbits so its a bad game.
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