This mountain has stories. That's what someone in Steep told me early on in the adventure, although I may be paraphrasing.

Joe gives us his impressions on Ubisoft's snow sports title – Steep – with this review on PS4.

When Steep was announced earlier this year, it caught a lot of us off guard. It's not anything we expected, but we certainly took notice, especially those of us who enjoy extreme sports games.

Beautifully designed world | Great sense of Speed | Technically very good

Gets a bit stale | A world filled with a lot of repetition | Foul language felt a bit out of place | No offline mode

Not bad at all for a first ever attempt at a winter sports game with a sandbox setting. The snowboarding aspect is likely the reason most people would consider checking this game out, but the other modes are also fun, especially the wingsuit challenges.

The National Sporting Goods Association reported in 2011 that more than 6.9 million people around the world ski, while more than 5.1 million snowboard. With this in mind you'd think that snow sport video games would be more popular than they are; the last significant snowboarding or skiing game...

Photo perfect presentation; Tight controls across all four disciplines; Great sense of freedom; Well implemented multiplayer

Disappointingly low level variety; Tags

Snow Joke.

Snowboarding; skiing and wingsuiting is fun; Lots to do; Instant restarts

Simply bewildering design decisions; Pointless open world; Umpteen annoyances

Steep is a fresh extreme sports journey through a huge map, slowed only by dull paragliding and a lack of progression.

Taking the spot as the first fully fledged open-world snowsports title to be released this generation, Ubisoft's latest IP Steep has been released this month, and although it delivers a seamless multiplayer experience filled with brisk adrenaline-fuelled events, not everything about it was spotless.

The simplicity of Steep is its biggest advantage – and initially, its biggest deterrent. Letting players loose in a giant playground seemingly has its limitations if you're not intrinsically interested in the four available sports: skiing, snowboarding, paragliding, and wingsuiting.

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