EA wasted no time in getting up an official website for SSX: Deadly Descents — or, as the cast of True Blood promptly renamed it during its reveal at last night’s calamitous VGAs, Deadly Ascent (backwards snowboarding woooo). The page includes last night’s announcement trailer and a few screens (posted in the gallery below), as well as a few intriguing details in the game’s description. In short, it sounds like the worlds’ first extreme sports/racing/survival horror game.
The site explains “players will explore the story of a team who seek to be the first to descend the faces of the most treacherous mountain ranges on the planet.” Players will visit “the peaks of the Himalayas, where the air is so thin that riders have to descend through the death zone at breakneck speeds to keep from blacking out, to the solid ice ranges of Antarctica, where a sunlit line is the only survival option when temperatures drop 50 degrees centigrade in the shade.” We wonder if you get bonus points if you finish the race with all your fingers and toes un-frostbitten.
The game won’t defy the series’ penchant for sweet aerial tricks, as the site explains “the first goal is to survive. The second, in true SSX fashion, is to look good doing it.” Seriously, we’re going to have a hard time remembering to do the latter while constantly fretting about the former.
Gallery: SSX: Deadly Descents
EA reveals some dark, dangerous details on SSX: Deadly Descents originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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