One of my favorite downhill runs has you going through towers, riding down spiral staircases, before you pass through a graveyard, then a series of ancient ruins, all before the final stretch where you blaze through the city streets of a coastal town. They're all also full of character, each feeling an adventure you're taking from beginning to end. The main mountain races are quite lengthy, lasting anywhere between four to six minutes on a good run. The star of the game is the various mountains on stage here.
It's a game that both makes me yearn for a return to this glorious era of gaming and one that I can't help but get frustrated at. Entertainment's (War of the Monsters and Twisted Metal: Black) Downhill Domination shares similarities with is SSX, but instead of shredding down a snow covered mountain with a snowboard, players ride mountain bikes down dangerous mountains and hills. Then the next generation came and coming with it were different extreme sports like inline skating with Aggressive Inline, BMX bike riding, and snowboarding with the SSX series. Thus, a plethora of skateboarding games made their way onto both the original PlayStation and Nintendo 64. In the 32 and 64 bit eras of gaming, extreme sports games were all the rage, and leading the way was one name: Tony Hawk.
