Steep is nothing like SSX, or any other blockbuster game for that matter

A few minutes with Steep, Ubisoft’s perplexing open-world snowboarding game, could inspire any number of questions. It’s quirky and messy, beautiful to look at, occasionally irritating to hold. And yet, when friends see I’m playing Steep, the first question is always the same: is it like SSX?For those who’ve come to video games in the last couple years, the SSX snowboarding franchise was a thing in the 2000s, a shrewd mix of colorful extreme sports culture of the new mill