Although the PS1 has worse graphics, but offers more content. While the PC version is exactly like the Arcade, but without multiplayer, and this is bad, possible the worst version, the DC port is like the arcade version but with multiplayer and the PS2 version exactly like the Arcade but with less tracks, this version is even worse than the PS1 version. While the time trial mode is a great inclusion! Especially if you want to found all the secrets, i dont understand why this mode isnt present in the other versions. All of this without saving the game and with one boat, so its like a more challenging version of the arcade one, although you dont unlock nothing and is in part frustrating. ![]() The career mode works exactly like the arcade mode, but you have to obtain money to race in the tracks, and if you run out of money you lose. The PS1 version gets two exclusive modes: career and time trial. You have to fight with the artificial difficult, and if you know all of the secrets, the game is very short, you can complete in half hour if you know everything. ![]() You can unlock more boats and tracks getting 3rd place or better for the medium tracks, 2rd place for the hard tracks and for the bonus ones you have to get in 1st place, and simply this is a very hard task. If you watch a guide with all of the shortcuts and boots, you can win the race every time, because like i said, it works like a puzzle game in some extend. This racing game in part works like a puzzle game. The racing itself maybe its not groundbreaking, but you can do some techniques that extends a lot more the gameplay (similar to games like Crash Team Racing): Cornering, Hydro Jump, Super Start, the hidden shortcuts, this game is all about secrets to win the race, although i dont like that the IA is programmated with rubberbanding and you have to find these secrets obligatory if you want to win the race, even in the easier tracks! So it can be frustrating. The game consists in water races with good variety of tracks and boats with different stats (although the game doesnt show up). And well, how it holds up? I play the Arcade version and the PS1, but also i read some differences between the N64, DC and PS2, so this review would be in general. More variety in courses though.Hydro Thunder was one of the games that i have the most nostalgia for it. Recommended as a decent alternative to Wave Race, although it's not quite as good as that. Overall this is a very good arcade racing game, for you to enjoy alone or with up to 3 more friends. There's buttons for acceleration, breaking and powersliding as well as a turbo boost, which can propel you to new heights and parts of the courses. The control of the game is very simple, as it should. ![]() As expected from a racing game, perhaps, but considering the bashing the N64 got due to it's limited capacity, the quality is very high. The sound in top-notch, with pumping music and very good effects. The only flaw is that the water mostly is flat, with no undulations or waves. Sure, there's some differences between the two, but the game never looks anything less than a treat for the eyes. The graphics of the game are very well made and look almost identical to the arcade vesrion. There's 3 courses and 3 crafts to selct from at the beginning, but as you win races, you unlock the next tier of both races and watercrafts. The races take place in increasingly exotic and fantastical locales full to the brim with secret exits and stunning vistas. The game is an arcade racing game with speedboats. ![]() Fortunately this is more of a case of Gauntlet than San Francisco Rush. Back in those days, Midway used to port everything from the arcades to the N64, with varying results. Hydro Thunder is another port of an arcade game for the N64.
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