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.

The extreme sports genre hit it big around the turn of the century with a variety of games like Tony Hawk Pro Skater and SSX. While the latter was a major

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

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

I enjoyed just about every minute I spent playing . Grandiose, attractive environments serving as the backdrop to varied, intense challenges are enough on their own to make this wintry playground somewhere I was always delighted to go back to and spend more time in - a feeling I still have even...

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.

Sponsored by Red Bull…

I was a bit skeptical at first with this game, though I might end up getting bored after awhile. I was definitely wrong! Played this game for 5 hours when I first put the disc in. If you even remotely have an interest in snow sports this is definitely a game worth having.

Steep brings a lot of really good ideas and reasonably strong snowboarding action to the table, but it's held back by a lot of little problems with the physics, the UI, and the course design. The final result is ambitious and often entertaining, but also unpolished and frustrating.