Best boat racing game ever made. If your looking for one than this is it.
User Rating: 8.7 | Hydro Thunder DC
Gameplay: Basically, this game is just your average racing game with boats but with an arcadey twist. There are 13 tracks to race on and all of them are exciting and fun filled. These tracks include Thunder Park, Lost Island, Artic Circle, and many more. At least 9 out of the 13 tracks include a difficulty to them like for example the first 3 tracks I mentioned before are easy, then the next 3 are medium, and the next 3 are Hard, and the last 4 are just bonus tracks. Most of the tracks, if not all the tracks are pretty easy in my opinion. How you unlock tracks in this game is beating each difficulty like for example if you beat all three tracks in the easy difficulty, then you've just unlocked the medium difficulty tracks and so on and so fourth. Now, for the boats, the number of boats there are is the number of tracks there are in the game. So, unlocking boats is the same thing as unlocking tracks. The same goes for the difficulty thing. Racing in this game is just thrilling and action packed because each track is filled with ramps that make you go sky high and also help you get ahead of the competition, speed boost power-ups that are pretty useful for bashing into other boats and making them fly into the air spinning around uncontrollably and for making you go a hella fast, shortcuts for getting a little more ahead of the competition, and pulling deathifying stunts such as jumping a raging volcano on Lost Island. It's also fun to crash into jet skiers on Lake Powell and it's also cool to evade the police boats that try to chase after you, it's just crazy. This game has a 2-player versus mode which is pretty decent and fun. It's just fun ramming your friend's boat especially with a speed boost.
Graphics: The graphics in the game are just plain awesome. From the cool looking boats like Damn the Torpedo to the amazing looking tracks like the Greek Isles is just great. The water looks shiny and the reflections off it look nice. There are some tight little details in each track such as the helicopter at the end of the Lake Powell track hovering towards the last big jump which you can hit and make it spin out of control is just funny and the fire that comes out of your boat when you press the boost button is just nice to look at and the giant eyeball you see in Nile adventure is just plain awesome.
Sound: The music in the game is just plain fun and adventurous. The sound bytes in the game sound great from the roar of your boat engine at the beginning of the race to the rocket like sounds of your speed boost to the screams of the people on their boats that you just rammed is just funny. It's also hillarious hearing the police trying to tell you to pull your boat over but it's even funnier when they say it in greek on the Greek Isles track.
Replay Value: This is one of those games that you play every once in a while. Although the 2-player versus mode would probably bring you back. You'll probably come back to this game in like a month or so.
