After the dreadful
Arctic Thunder, I was weary to play a snowmobile game ever again. My biggest gripe was the graphics. Fortunately when I played through
Sled Storm 2, everything looked great. Plenty of rolling hills with flashy red and yellow paint, crazy character animations, and snow blowers throwing the stuff everywhere. Some of you probably just looked at the title of this review, again wondering if it was for
SSX. Although it says
Sled Storm 2, it very well could be for
SSX. The games are so close, if I saw a picture of
Sled Storm 2 on the internet without knowing what it was, I would swear someone doctored an
SSX pic with a snowmobile pasted on it. In fact, that is how it looks in motion also. I have no doubt that EA just said, 'Well, we own the rights to Sled Storm, let's stick a snowmobile in the
SSX engine and use it.' They even use the same panning shots to show you the course before the race. Unlike the meager
Arctic Thunder, you will find no slowdown here. In addition, there won't be any jaggies, poor textures, low polygon counts, or cheap animations. (All present in
Arctic Thunder There will, however, be everything that's in
SSX, but isn't a snowboard. That's okay though, because
SSX rocks.
Once again, Sled Storm 2 falls between the good (SSX), and the bad (Arctic Thunder). Mostly, the music tracks are the same heavy techno that can be found in the former. And also, being that this game is mostly an emulation SSX, there is a truckload of voice acting. It all sounds good too, just like in SSX.
