Retro Game Walkthroughs for SSX 3 (PlayStation 2)
Submitted By: KopKing
SSX 3 WALKTHROUGH
I have written this to help you people beat those peaks.
PEAK 1
Tips
Replays
Watch the post event replay to spot shortcuts and combo lines. You can also use the manual camera by pressing triangle and search with the analogue sticks.
Starts
You can get a turbo start either by rocking back and forth or just press forward.
Jumps
In Slopestyle events to help build a bit of speed go over a jump and use your boost.
RACES
Snow Jam
Gold Medal Target: 2mins 50secs
Difficulty: 3/10
Shortcut
Two-thirds of the way down you will come up to a group of bumpy moguls for easy passing head for the rail on the right and that should get you through
Race:
This is a simple introduction race to get a feel of the game. The course is wide open ,so to maximise speed look for grind lines and use every obvious jump in sight to land tricks and build your boost bar. You cannot fail.
Metro City
Gold Medal Target: 2mins 47secs
Difficulty 5/10
Shortcut
About halfway down after the Japanese dojo with the cash collectable, go left, hit the rail to cut the bend.
Race
A lot like Mercury City from SSX Tricky and is filled with what look like shortcuts but aren�t, so stick to the main path. For easy completion try linking rail-to-rail combos which builds your speed and bypassing the bends. Look for rails bisecting every junction and don�t take your eyes off the screen.
Happiness Race
Gold Medal Target: 2mins 52secs
Difficulty: 1/10
Race
This is dead simple, just don�t do anything which would cause you to fall or any dodgy stunts. Use the rails to grind and boost your speed. You should not have a problem because it�s one on one.
FREESTYLE
R&B-Slopestyle
Gold Medal Target: 200,000 points
Difficulty: 4/10
Key Score Zone
After the start line there is a large rail. Use it as it has valuable score multipliers and will shoot your points straight up.
Track
This is full of large bumps made for easy scoring points. Use lots of rail Ubers (press shoulder button and square when grinding.)This will quickly build your Uber meter and get high level 2 scoring Ubers. Use the rail-to-rail flowing combo down the whole track and ride each rail to it�s end.
Crow�s Nest-Big Air
Gold Medal Target: 200,000 points
Difficulty: 6/10
Key Score Zone
Treat this course as one large combo and Butter between stunts to get massive points. You can also, from the start, go right immediately, use the rail and use the multiple jumps.
Track
The trick to all of these Big Air courses is to either build up your Adrenaline bar at the start or early on in the run. This is done by free riding to the course while doing tricks, doing 360�s and Butters at the top of the course. Max out the first jump by doing different grabs, tweaking and inverting and you should find yourself in a position to do Level 2 Ubers by the final bank. If in need of more points by the end, don�t rush to the finish after the final bank but sneak in a final few tricks at the bank opposite.
The Junction-Super Pipe
Gold Medal Target: 300,000 points
Difficulty: 4/10
Key Score Zone
Use the level 2 Ubers and use the left analogue stick while you spin and grab. You will get bonus points for inverting, stalling and tweaking the trick.
Track
The only way you can lose this track is if time runs out. Vary your grabs as you move from left to right. Hold X on the straights and when you hit a jump it will maximise the height and speed of your jumps. Work through the grabs in sequence to avoid repetition. Do the same with diagonals, rotations, front flips and back flips. If you go from bank-to-bank in a U-shape you will automatically get points for short gaps between tricks.
Happiness Jam
Gold Medal Target: 200,000 points
Difficulty: 3/10
Track
Simple. Ignore your opponent and focus on your track and variety of tricks. Success is assured.
ALL PEAK EVENTS
Race
Gold Medal Time: 11mins 56secs
Difficulty: 3/10
Race
Just focus on building up your Super bar fast and keep boosting. Keep checking the check point updates to see if your on target and you should finish without a problem.
Trick
Gold Medal Target: 130,000 points
Difficulty: 0/10
Track
Impossible to fail! Just pull together a couple of moves and your done. You should even be able to get 300,000 points without a problem. Easiest track in the game.
PEAK 2
RACES
Ruthless Ridge
Gold Medal Time: 3mins 5secs
Difficulty: 6/10
Shortcut
Look for obvious Out Of Bounds signs at 41% and 75% race completion. There is a massive top tier combo run 60% of the way down the right hand side. If you hit this the gold is yours.
Race
There are plenty of shortcuts here, so many in fact you won�t know where to turn. Go for the straight line route. There's an Out Of Bounds sign immediately after the start on the right which takes you to the big combo rail run. Hit it.
Intimidator
Gold Medal Time: 3mins
Difficulty: 6/10
Shortcut
After the large glass pipe section, save some of your boost for the big rail combo across the flatland section which is near the pagoda buildings. After the second pagoda bridge, you can aim for the narrow ramp on the right and leap right over the mountain bend or you could take the path on the left cut a sharp 90 degrees left again and hit the Out Of Bounds sign.
Race
There aren�t any short cuts round the start bit of this course so just hit the racing line. Build up your boost bar before the ride by landing a few tricks in the Freeride. The track has a lot of big cliff jumps so boost at them straight and use the jump button landing every jump cleanly and success won�t be far away.
Ruthless
Gold Medal Time: 3mins 30secs
Difficulty:5/10
Race
This is quite easy. Just hit the single line route, jumping the chicanes and cutting all corners. Hit select if you know something wrong is going to happen so you don�t have to waste time getting stuck or falling. Keep away from the deep snow as it slows you down and look for flat logs to rail grind. Don�t forget to boost your speed before the race.
ALL PEAK
Peak Two Race
Gold Medal Time: 16mins
Difficulty: 4/10
Race
Pretty simple, just stick to basics and don't blow it by tackling stupid jumps or trying out blind shortcuts
Peak Two Jam
Gold Medal Target: 350,000 points
Difficulty 4/5
Easy, just pull off all your tricks and you shouldn't fall short of 500,000 points never mind 350,000.
FREESTYLE
Stylemile - Slopestyle
Gold Medal Target: 500,000 points
Difficulty: 8/10
Key Score Zone
About 60% of the way down the track there is a small bank which you can use to leap onto a small house, grinding along it's roof into a precarious wire grind, picking up multipliers and bonuses all the way. Be on your toes though, there is a sneaky 3x multiplier on the far right hand side just before the finish line at about 99% completion, perched on a log. Pull an Uber off the log and the 3x multiplier is yours.
Track
After the start, go left immediately to nab yourself a x2 multiplier, launching onto a rail which you can ride and leap off onto a black x10 multiplier combo. There are lots of linking lines between the rails, so be alert and let the momentum guide you.
Launch Time - Big Air
Gold Medal Target: 120,000 points
Difficulty 6/10
Key Score Zone
Don't rush to the finish line but use the bottom section as a half pipe. To stand a chance at the final bank your Uber bar must be full, so make sure you have a full adrenaline bar before the penultimate leap. You can easily link the run into a single high scoring combo.
Track
Hit the diagonal jump on the first bump to boost your Boost bar, then head to the left hand side narrow ramp, or head far right if you want to get a multiplier. If you do take the right-hand route it will lead you to a mine shaft area which is a more difficult route than the one on the left. It's best to go left, get the orange multiplier and get a full boost bar for the final leap.
Schizophrenia - Super Pipe
Gold Medal Target: 300,000 points
Difficulty: 6/10
Track
Like all of the pipe events, all you need to do is be methodical, working through each Uber in turn and maxing out your height. Providing you don't fall this whole run should count as one continuous combo earning yourself a bonus 100,000+ points added onto your stunt points when you cross the line.
PEAK 2 SECRET ITEMS.
Get to the peak 2 lodge to buy yourself some cool stuff.
PEAK 3
RACES
Gravitude
Gold Medal Time: 2mins 45secs
Difficulty: 6/10
Shortcut
At the Out Of Bounds sign on the left hand side beside the plane wreck at about 50% completion cut inside to smash the glass and then be alert straight away for a massive leap over the mountain. If you make it you will be near guaranteed first place.
Race
By now you rider should have near full stats so you will be able to make up time on any straights. From the start make the big jump and nail the obvious Out Of Bounds sign to give yourself an early lead.
The Throne Race
Gold Medal Time: 2mins 36secs
Difficulty: 9/10
Shortcut
As you drop from the icy half pipe canyon area, don't mess around jumping but take a sharp left. Hit the log at the end of the section and boost off into the dark forest. This is the best route.
Race
This is dead hard and will probably need luck to complete it. To win this your run needs to be flawless. From the start go sharp right and go down the powder glacier. If you get lost at all follow your opponents laser beam as he uses much the same route as you. Soon you will pass a narrow gap in the rock where you and your opponent should be at least neck and neck. Take every grind log on your way and cut every corner possible. Do this and you will win sooner rather than later.
ALL PEAK
All Peak Race
Gold Medal Time: 25mins
Difficulty: 4/10
Race
This is actually quite easy but will take about half an hour so the less attempts this takes the better. Just be sensible and ignore precarious leaps and gain boost when the opportunity arises. If your about 30 second behind schedule at the early checkpoints don't panic as you will defiantly make it up later, you should even finish 2-3 minutes ahead of schedule. Just don't get cocky.
All Peak Jam
Gold Medal Target: 1,000,000
Difficulty: 6/10
Track
Don't worry its not that hard to get the million points. You've got the whole mountain and three Slopestyle courses to get the million. Maximise your points in these zones and don't try to get the odd thousand points on the flat Freeride sections.
FREESTYLE
Kick Doubt - Slopestyle
Gold Medal Target: 700,000 points
Difficulty :10/10
Key Score Zone
There's a 10x multiplier up on the right hand side of this course, but it's really high and is found about 47% of the way down. The best way to get it is using the rails proceeding on the left hand side to get up a bit of speed, the swoop an angled leap into the big bump bank and hope for the best. If you get it could be worth 200,000 points.
Track
Without a shadow of a doubt the hardest track in the game. To get things started with a decent score bank left sharp to get yourself a 3x multiplier. If you don't feel good about taking this route there is a safer one where you jump right of the large column, land with a full Uber bar and do a couple of level one Ubers on the near-vertical bank on the right hand side, before going left and hitting the rail multiplier. You should have about 140,000-160,000 points by the time you get to the glowing ice caverns. The caverns are full of rails, with one huge combo line rail for rail Ubers, ending in a level two Uber jump opportunity. Hit the final bank before the finish line at speed and get yourself a final multiplier jump.
Much 2 Much - Big Air
Gold Medal Target: 200,000 points
Difficulty:6/10
Track
There are huge banks here which equals guaranteed points. There are multiple routes but stick to the one on the left for safety. The second huge bump needs an early jump or you'll mess up and fall down a vertical leap losing out on a chance for many points. Keep rotating the left analogue stick in mid air to create off-axis and invert bonuses.
Perpendiculous- Super Pipe
Gold Medal Target: 450,000 points
Difficulty: 4/10
Track
Aim high to get the impossibly balanced bonus icons. This is, once again a track in which you need to use methodical Uber tricks. Try to snag the rails on your way out of the pipe for a huge combo.
Throne Jam
Gold Medal Target: 300,000 points
Difficulty 8/10
Track
This is rock hard. You need to do fantastically in the first third as your opponent will catch up later. Don't look at your rivals score in case you worry and concentrate on making your own leaps and lines. To stand a chance of winning you need level 2 Ubers active by the time you reach the big half pipe ice banks, where you spend maximum time pulling off daring combos. Ignore the quick route and hit the vertical banks and drops.
PEAK 3 SECRET ITEMS
At the lodge you can buy yourself a spring loaded head, a punch bag head, a bowler hat, you can replace your snowboard with a surf board amongst other things.
I have written this to help you people beat those peaks.
PEAK 1
Tips
Replays
Watch the post event replay to spot shortcuts and combo lines. You can also use the manual camera by pressing triangle and search with the analogue sticks.
Starts
You can get a turbo start either by rocking back and forth or just press forward.
Jumps
In Slopestyle events to help build a bit of speed go over a jump and use your boost.
RACES
Snow Jam
Gold Medal Target: 2mins 50secs
Difficulty: 3/10
Shortcut
Two-thirds of the way down you will come up to a group of bumpy moguls for easy passing head for the rail on the right and that should get you through
Race:
This is a simple introduction race to get a feel of the game. The course is wide open ,so to maximise speed look for grind lines and use every obvious jump in sight to land tricks and build your boost bar. You cannot fail.
Metro City
Gold Medal Target: 2mins 47secs
Difficulty 5/10
Shortcut
About halfway down after the Japanese dojo with the cash collectable, go left, hit the rail to cut the bend.
Race
A lot like Mercury City from SSX Tricky and is filled with what look like shortcuts but aren�t, so stick to the main path. For easy completion try linking rail-to-rail combos which builds your speed and bypassing the bends. Look for rails bisecting every junction and don�t take your eyes off the screen.
Happiness Race
Gold Medal Target: 2mins 52secs
Difficulty: 1/10
Race
This is dead simple, just don�t do anything which would cause you to fall or any dodgy stunts. Use the rails to grind and boost your speed. You should not have a problem because it�s one on one.
FREESTYLE
R&B-Slopestyle
Gold Medal Target: 200,000 points
Difficulty: 4/10
Key Score Zone
After the start line there is a large rail. Use it as it has valuable score multipliers and will shoot your points straight up.
Track
This is full of large bumps made for easy scoring points. Use lots of rail Ubers (press shoulder button and square when grinding.)This will quickly build your Uber meter and get high level 2 scoring Ubers. Use the rail-to-rail flowing combo down the whole track and ride each rail to it�s end.
Crow�s Nest-Big Air
Gold Medal Target: 200,000 points
Difficulty: 6/10
Key Score Zone
Treat this course as one large combo and Butter between stunts to get massive points. You can also, from the start, go right immediately, use the rail and use the multiple jumps.
Track
The trick to all of these Big Air courses is to either build up your Adrenaline bar at the start or early on in the run. This is done by free riding to the course while doing tricks, doing 360�s and Butters at the top of the course. Max out the first jump by doing different grabs, tweaking and inverting and you should find yourself in a position to do Level 2 Ubers by the final bank. If in need of more points by the end, don�t rush to the finish after the final bank but sneak in a final few tricks at the bank opposite.
The Junction-Super Pipe
Gold Medal Target: 300,000 points
Difficulty: 4/10
Key Score Zone
Use the level 2 Ubers and use the left analogue stick while you spin and grab. You will get bonus points for inverting, stalling and tweaking the trick.
Track
The only way you can lose this track is if time runs out. Vary your grabs as you move from left to right. Hold X on the straights and when you hit a jump it will maximise the height and speed of your jumps. Work through the grabs in sequence to avoid repetition. Do the same with diagonals, rotations, front flips and back flips. If you go from bank-to-bank in a U-shape you will automatically get points for short gaps between tricks.
Happiness Jam
Gold Medal Target: 200,000 points
Difficulty: 3/10
Track
Simple. Ignore your opponent and focus on your track and variety of tricks. Success is assured.
ALL PEAK EVENTS
Race
Gold Medal Time: 11mins 56secs
Difficulty: 3/10
Race
Just focus on building up your Super bar fast and keep boosting. Keep checking the check point updates to see if your on target and you should finish without a problem.
Trick
Gold Medal Target: 130,000 points
Difficulty: 0/10
Track
Impossible to fail! Just pull together a couple of moves and your done. You should even be able to get 300,000 points without a problem. Easiest track in the game.
PEAK 2
RACES
Ruthless Ridge
Gold Medal Time: 3mins 5secs
Difficulty: 6/10
Shortcut
Look for obvious Out Of Bounds signs at 41% and 75% race completion. There is a massive top tier combo run 60% of the way down the right hand side. If you hit this the gold is yours.
Race
There are plenty of shortcuts here, so many in fact you won�t know where to turn. Go for the straight line route. There's an Out Of Bounds sign immediately after the start on the right which takes you to the big combo rail run. Hit it.
Intimidator
Gold Medal Time: 3mins
Difficulty: 6/10
Shortcut
After the large glass pipe section, save some of your boost for the big rail combo across the flatland section which is near the pagoda buildings. After the second pagoda bridge, you can aim for the narrow ramp on the right and leap right over the mountain bend or you could take the path on the left cut a sharp 90 degrees left again and hit the Out Of Bounds sign.
Race
There aren�t any short cuts round the start bit of this course so just hit the racing line. Build up your boost bar before the ride by landing a few tricks in the Freeride. The track has a lot of big cliff jumps so boost at them straight and use the jump button landing every jump cleanly and success won�t be far away.
Ruthless
Gold Medal Time: 3mins 30secs
Difficulty:5/10
Race
This is quite easy. Just hit the single line route, jumping the chicanes and cutting all corners. Hit select if you know something wrong is going to happen so you don�t have to waste time getting stuck or falling. Keep away from the deep snow as it slows you down and look for flat logs to rail grind. Don�t forget to boost your speed before the race.
ALL PEAK
Peak Two Race
Gold Medal Time: 16mins
Difficulty: 4/10
Race
Pretty simple, just stick to basics and don't blow it by tackling stupid jumps or trying out blind shortcuts
Peak Two Jam
Gold Medal Target: 350,000 points
Difficulty 4/5
Easy, just pull off all your tricks and you shouldn't fall short of 500,000 points never mind 350,000.
FREESTYLE
Stylemile - Slopestyle
Gold Medal Target: 500,000 points
Difficulty: 8/10
Key Score Zone
About 60% of the way down the track there is a small bank which you can use to leap onto a small house, grinding along it's roof into a precarious wire grind, picking up multipliers and bonuses all the way. Be on your toes though, there is a sneaky 3x multiplier on the far right hand side just before the finish line at about 99% completion, perched on a log. Pull an Uber off the log and the 3x multiplier is yours.
Track
After the start, go left immediately to nab yourself a x2 multiplier, launching onto a rail which you can ride and leap off onto a black x10 multiplier combo. There are lots of linking lines between the rails, so be alert and let the momentum guide you.
Launch Time - Big Air
Gold Medal Target: 120,000 points
Difficulty 6/10
Key Score Zone
Don't rush to the finish line but use the bottom section as a half pipe. To stand a chance at the final bank your Uber bar must be full, so make sure you have a full adrenaline bar before the penultimate leap. You can easily link the run into a single high scoring combo.
Track
Hit the diagonal jump on the first bump to boost your Boost bar, then head to the left hand side narrow ramp, or head far right if you want to get a multiplier. If you do take the right-hand route it will lead you to a mine shaft area which is a more difficult route than the one on the left. It's best to go left, get the orange multiplier and get a full boost bar for the final leap.
Schizophrenia - Super Pipe
Gold Medal Target: 300,000 points
Difficulty: 6/10
Track
Like all of the pipe events, all you need to do is be methodical, working through each Uber in turn and maxing out your height. Providing you don't fall this whole run should count as one continuous combo earning yourself a bonus 100,000+ points added onto your stunt points when you cross the line.
PEAK 2 SECRET ITEMS.
Get to the peak 2 lodge to buy yourself some cool stuff.
PEAK 3
RACES
Gravitude
Gold Medal Time: 2mins 45secs
Difficulty: 6/10
Shortcut
At the Out Of Bounds sign on the left hand side beside the plane wreck at about 50% completion cut inside to smash the glass and then be alert straight away for a massive leap over the mountain. If you make it you will be near guaranteed first place.
Race
By now you rider should have near full stats so you will be able to make up time on any straights. From the start make the big jump and nail the obvious Out Of Bounds sign to give yourself an early lead.
The Throne Race
Gold Medal Time: 2mins 36secs
Difficulty: 9/10
Shortcut
As you drop from the icy half pipe canyon area, don't mess around jumping but take a sharp left. Hit the log at the end of the section and boost off into the dark forest. This is the best route.
Race
This is dead hard and will probably need luck to complete it. To win this your run needs to be flawless. From the start go sharp right and go down the powder glacier. If you get lost at all follow your opponents laser beam as he uses much the same route as you. Soon you will pass a narrow gap in the rock where you and your opponent should be at least neck and neck. Take every grind log on your way and cut every corner possible. Do this and you will win sooner rather than later.
ALL PEAK
All Peak Race
Gold Medal Time: 25mins
Difficulty: 4/10
Race
This is actually quite easy but will take about half an hour so the less attempts this takes the better. Just be sensible and ignore precarious leaps and gain boost when the opportunity arises. If your about 30 second behind schedule at the early checkpoints don't panic as you will defiantly make it up later, you should even finish 2-3 minutes ahead of schedule. Just don't get cocky.
All Peak Jam
Gold Medal Target: 1,000,000
Difficulty: 6/10
Track
Don't worry its not that hard to get the million points. You've got the whole mountain and three Slopestyle courses to get the million. Maximise your points in these zones and don't try to get the odd thousand points on the flat Freeride sections.
FREESTYLE
Kick Doubt - Slopestyle
Gold Medal Target: 700,000 points
Difficulty :10/10
Key Score Zone
There's a 10x multiplier up on the right hand side of this course, but it's really high and is found about 47% of the way down. The best way to get it is using the rails proceeding on the left hand side to get up a bit of speed, the swoop an angled leap into the big bump bank and hope for the best. If you get it could be worth 200,000 points.
Track
Without a shadow of a doubt the hardest track in the game. To get things started with a decent score bank left sharp to get yourself a 3x multiplier. If you don't feel good about taking this route there is a safer one where you jump right of the large column, land with a full Uber bar and do a couple of level one Ubers on the near-vertical bank on the right hand side, before going left and hitting the rail multiplier. You should have about 140,000-160,000 points by the time you get to the glowing ice caverns. The caverns are full of rails, with one huge combo line rail for rail Ubers, ending in a level two Uber jump opportunity. Hit the final bank before the finish line at speed and get yourself a final multiplier jump.
Much 2 Much - Big Air
Gold Medal Target: 200,000 points
Difficulty:6/10
Track
There are huge banks here which equals guaranteed points. There are multiple routes but stick to the one on the left for safety. The second huge bump needs an early jump or you'll mess up and fall down a vertical leap losing out on a chance for many points. Keep rotating the left analogue stick in mid air to create off-axis and invert bonuses.
Perpendiculous- Super Pipe
Gold Medal Target: 450,000 points
Difficulty: 4/10
Track
Aim high to get the impossibly balanced bonus icons. This is, once again a track in which you need to use methodical Uber tricks. Try to snag the rails on your way out of the pipe for a huge combo.
Throne Jam
Gold Medal Target: 300,000 points
Difficulty 8/10
Track
This is rock hard. You need to do fantastically in the first third as your opponent will catch up later. Don't look at your rivals score in case you worry and concentrate on making your own leaps and lines. To stand a chance of winning you need level 2 Ubers active by the time you reach the big half pipe ice banks, where you spend maximum time pulling off daring combos. Ignore the quick route and hit the vertical banks and drops.
PEAK 3 SECRET ITEMS
At the lodge you can buy yourself a spring loaded head, a punch bag head, a bowler hat, you can replace your snowboard with a surf board amongst other things.