SSX Isn’t The First Attempt At A Reboot

Todd Batty, creative director on EA’s SSX reboot, has spoken out about the game, and how it’s not the first attempt at getting the classic series back onto the slopes.

“When I was asked to take another kick at bringing SSX back,” he said, “I had heard of some previous attempts both within our studio and in other studios at EA – and I was fortunate enough to be able to contact one of those teams and ask what the big sticking point was, and why it never materialised and came together.”

“I get the impression,” he continues,” that none of these made it past early concept stages.”

“I know there have been multiple attempts, but none of them went seriously far, for sure, or I would know about it.”

It also transpires that SSX had skiing in the game “at very early stages” but was removed due to animation constraints and that if they had skis, “it would mean half as many tricks split across skis and snowboards.”

“We’d love to do skis at some point in the future,” Batty admits, “maybe as DLC or in a follow-up version to this one.”

Source: Edge issue 231, which features a comprehensive preview of the game.