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SSX Tricky has what many other sports games lack: addictive playability. Maybe it's the impetus of gravity and the slippery slopes, or maybe it's the slick interface, but this snowboarding game is an instant compulsion. Flashy characters voiced by talents ranging from David Arquette to Bif Naked, great graphics, and a matching sound track are the icing, but the cake itself is screaming first-run-down-the-slopes game play. Successive runs reveal new tricks, grabs, and tweaks, and building up "adrenalin" gives you access to crazy uber tricks that you have to see to believe. Our only complaint is that the two-player split-screen mode cuts out too much peripheral vision, and the resultant crashes spoil the fun.