ESPN Espn2 Extreme Games (DOS)

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Description

ESPN Extreme Games lets the player access three modes of play: Exhibition, New Season or a continuation of a season. Exhibition mode helps the player get to know the courses and equipment as well as get a feel for the controls. New season offers the player the chance to race against sixteen other competitors on any of the four racing machines competing for season points as well as money to upgrade equipment.

Choose between roller blades, a luge (basically a sit-down skateboard), a mountain bike, and the skateboard. The player can also determine which character they want to race with, each one having a unique skill on one of the apparatus. For example one might be top-notch at roller blading but be bad at bike-riding so there is no point choosing the bike with him/her. In a season, the player competes in the five locations - three times, twelve in all and each time the obstacles become more and more tricky to avoid as well as the other racers becoming faster and more agile.

The tracks are:

• Italy - Country roads leading down to a town area;
• Lake Tahoe - Twisting roads and strategically placed haystacks;
• South America - Lots of caves and thin jungle roads;
• San Francisco - Hundreds of obstacles and hills;
• Utah - Falling rocks, secret routes, and some hungry looking crocodiles.

Sony's ESPN license had expired by the time the game's Greatest Hits release came out in 1998, hence it was retitled 1Xtreme (a sequel named 2Xtreme had been released in 1997) and all ESPN logos and video footage were removed from the release.

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Alternate Titles

• "ESPN Street Games" -- Japanese title
• "ESPNストリートゲームス" -- Japanese spelling
• "1Xtreme" -- 1998 Greatest Hits release title

Part of the Following Groups

• Console Generation Exclusive: PlayStation
• ESPN licensees
• Launch title: PlayStation (North America)
• PlayStation Greatest Hits releases
• Xtreme series

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Critic Reviews

PC Multimedia & Entertainment	May 20, 1996	78 out of 100	78
PC Joker	Mar, 1996	77 out of 100	77
PC Player (Germany)	Mar, 1996	71 out of 100	71
GameSpot	May 01, 1996	6.8 out of 10	68
High Score	Jul, 1996	3 out of 5	60
PC Player (Brazil)	May, 1996		60
Power Play	Mar, 1996	54 out of 100	54
PC Action	Mar, 1996	35 out of 100	35
PC Games (Germany)	Mar, 1996	28 out of 100	28

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Trivia

Race summary

In the first run of the game, a woman would appear on a monitor after every race, and berate you if you did any worse than second place. She was quite mean about it, too. She was removed from the Greatest Hits version.