In an interview with Gameinformer, EA announced that SSX: Deadly Descents would now be simply titled SSX. Creative director, Todd Batty also revealed some information on the amount of content in the new game.
“We’re going to have Speed Descent events, and of course we’ll have tricks in our Tricky Descent events,” said Batty. “We wanted to make sure we hit the over-the-top arcadey gameplay in all of these different gameplay modes. We decided to lead with the new Deadly Descent gameplay in that trailer, but all of the classic SSX style will be there, too.
“We’re a little challenged with how many levels we can put on the disc, honestly, but we’re thinking it will be somewhere in the vicinity of 70 mountains. By comparison, SSX 3 had one. The hub works kind of like Google Earth. You can spin the globe around and pick a mountain range you like then zoom in on that and pick a mountain you like from there, then you get to race down the crazy arcade courses that we’ve built on top of real-life mountains.”
