SSX Tricky

Gameplay continues the same basic method introduced in the original SSX. The main tracks are remixes from the previous game like Merqury City, which takes place in a New York City-based downtown area, and Tokyo Megaplex, a course resembling a giant pinball machine, plus two new tracks, Garibaldi and Alaska. It features twelve characters: the returning Elise Riggs, Mackenzie "Mac" Fraser (NTSC version), Kaori Nishidake, Zoe Payne, Moby Jones, and Jean-Paul "JP" Arsenault, plus new ones like Psymon Stark, Edward "Eddie" Wachowski, Seeiah Owens, Luther-Dwayne Grady, Marisol Diez Delgado, Broderick "Brodi" Ford, Martin "Marty" Stieber (PAL version), who replaces Mac, and Kim Yuri (NTSC Korean version), who replaces Kaori. Hiro Karamatsu and Jurgen Angermann did not return, which was justified as suffering off-season injuries.

Winning medals in a variety of events unlocks new courses, characters, and boards, as well as improved the boarder's abilities. New outfits may be earned by completing a character's trick book, by doing a number of specific tricks during play. Three kinds of boards are available to players: trick-oriented Freestyle boards, all-around BX boards, and racing-oriented Alpine boards, which are not meant to be ridden backwards.

SSX Tricky was developed by EA Canada and created by Steven Rechtschaffner, who had worked as a producer for EA's FIFA Soccer 96 and the Triple Play baseball series, and was produced by Larry LaPierre and Adam Mackay-Smith, the latter of whom was working on EA's Need for Speed racing series at that time.

The game was originally called SSX: DVD and was intended to be a remixed, enhanced version of the original SSX, capitalizing on the success of the original game. EA Canada intended to add new areas, shortcuts, and subtly change the landscape of the environments of the original game. They also intended to have more interaction during races, redesigned character models, celebrity voice work, character specific cutscenes and more in-game music.

The PlayStation 2 (PS2) version received universal acclaim, and the GameCube (GC) and Xbox versions received favorable reviews, while the Game Boy Advance (GBA) version received average reviews according to Metacritic, a video game review aggregator. It was a runner-up in GameSpot's annual award categories for the best Xbox game and best alternative sports console game, losing to Halo: Combat Evolved and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, respectively.

Most reviews hesitated before calling the game a true sequel, since it shared a large amount of content with the original SSX, which was published in 2000, and all but two of the courses appear in the original. Peter Suclu reviewed the PS2 version of the game for Next Generation, rating it four stars out of five, and stated: "If you haven't played SSX, this is a must-buy, but if you already own the game, the full-price 'expansion pack' is hardly revolutionary." Reviews like that of IGN's Aaron Boulding complimented the added features, such as Uber tricks and rivalry with other boarders. Some reviewers, such as Shan Satterfield for GameSpot, thought that the improvements over the original were so good that SSX Tricky was billed as the best snowboarding game to date. IGN's Peer Schneider wrote: "Overall, the PS2 SSX Tricky delivers the best control setup for returning players, but if you've never played SSX before you might as well go for the best-looking and sounding version: SSX Tricky for Xbox."

SSX Tricky is noted to have increased the popularity of Run-DMC's song "It's Tricky", which is used as the game's main theme. The renowned song's connection to the game and its fans led to its inclusion in the 2012 reboot SSX.

Into the 2020s, amid a number of games getting remade, fans have been clamoring for a remake of SSX Tricky. In 2020, Steven Rechtschaffner, the producer of SSX Tricky, expressed his interest and the possibility of a remake of the game. When the game's successor SSX 3 was re-released for Xbox One in 2018, he was impressed, saying that a remake of SSX Tricky could work. Rechtschaffner said that it is not his decision but rather of the developers and EA, who own the intellectual property.