- Massive Mountains – Amped 3 features seven new resorts, up to three times larger than levels in Amped 1 and 2. Take on hundreds of challenges around the resorts, or pull out your sled and try to hang on for dear life. Explore the entire mountain on a snowmobile, get away from it all in the back country, or find the perfect spot and build your own obstacles, rails, and jumps.

- Snowbox – The resorts are loaded with hundreds of challenges; beat them and earn upgrades, new stuff, or Coin you can use to buy a ton of swag. And these challenges aren't just about your skills on a snowboard...there's snowmobiling, sledding, and more. All your top scored runs, hang-times and crashes are automatically posted for all to see on Live...see how you measure up against the rest of the planet and go grab the top spot.

- Park Builder – Anywhere, anytime, you can plant your own jumps and rails to create a personal terrain park, add things to trick off to get better High Scores, or just make a difficult challenge a little easier. You can even create your own sessioning area. And you earn newer and crazier objects to plant as you play the game.

- Coop Sled Slaughter- Hop on a sled and just try to hang on! The longer you can rise, the greater the destruction and carnage... and the bigger your medical bills (aka high score). Or, if you want to teach your buddy a lesson, tie your sleds together and see who can do more damage to themselves. Good times!

- Snow Tracks – Over 300 new indie music tracks...again Amped 3 offers up more fresh tracks than any game ever made.

- Story - Amped 3 stays true to its roots with the most authentic trick-based snowboarding game that is played out in an incredibly cool new story that takes you on a mind-blowing trip into the snowboarding subconscious. You and crew have been saving up cash for a trip to Chile, where you all plan to keep riding until the money runs out. But when someone steals the cash and tries to pin it on you, the rest of the crew mysteriously disappears and you're on your own. Then things get REALLY weird. It's up to you to find out what the crap is goin' on as you ride some of the greatest resorts around the world and conquer your nemesis.

 

Besides crisp graphics and a selection of realistic mountains, Amped also featured a control scheme that was relatively difficult to master. This time around the team decided on a more accessible and less punishing angle for those who just want to experience some quick boarding action. As the game's producer put it "People don't buy games to get bitch slapped."

From what we've witnessed so far, this means that beginners and even button mashers can put down some fresh tracks without being punished by constant face plants. Grinds no longer require holding down a rail button making transfers much easier. For the pros, the style meter has returned, meaning that a series of flips doesn't score as many points as an expertly performed single rotation that's landed with precision.

It is also easier to link together moves with the addition of tricks that can be performed from butter. Butter is basically a manual on snow and now players can bust out a cartwheel or a flip while balancing down the mountain. As an alternative to butter, players are also awarded points for powder carving and given a bonus for rhythmic turns.

Aside from being a bit easier, Amped still has the legitimate tricks and real life resorts. Gamers can carve powder at Northstar, Snowbird, Valle Nevado, Zugspitze, Laax, and D.C. Mountain Labs. The customization options include tons of real-life gear from Sessions, Burton, Volcom, Dragon, and once again the game is packed with real pros like Jeremy Jones and David Benedict. However, reality is mixed with a heavy dose of fiction with a wacky storyline that has players saving the sport of snowboarding from the clutches of a villain named Baron Von Havok. The Baron has brainwashed four of your friends and the only way to set the world straight is to grab some sick air! The storyline will take a casual gamer around 10 hours to complete. The concept is interesting to say the least, and if this sounds a little strange, it's nothing when compared to the visuals.