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Showcasing 13 courses with 13 cruisers for video game players to choose from, Hydro Thunder is an amazing arcade port and a fast boat racing video game for the Sega Dreamcast.
Through Hydro Thunder, Dreamcast platform benefits from the processing power of this 128-bit machine .
Hydro Thunder video game has a wide variety of boats to pick up - from nuclear-powered ones to catamarans to powerboats – sharing the same movements: accelerate, brake, turn, and Turbo-Boost. The courses start out easy, and then gradually get harder AND t hese races are against the law, so you will have to dodge the police and civilians alike throughout each event. Grab power-ups to fuel your vehicle, find shortcuts, and unlock secret boats.
There are secret passages in all the tracks to earn more boosters while the tracks themselves take advantage of the aquatic settings. Hydro Thunder makes use of three type of water: The deep water comes in two types - calm or choppy –and the third type one is the calm shallows.
The spectacular graphics and detailed race environments make this a most atypical racing game where the water lures beauty, and so do all the machines :
The graphics in this game are awesome. It's sort of difficult to concentrate on the race when you don't want to miss the environment surrounding you, like New York Disaster, Far East, and Arctic Circle racing areas .
The music and sound FX are magnifique . The boats, and splashes sounds along with the good use of voice effects in the form of your announcer's exclusive radio are the best . The controls of the video game along with the Dreamcast controllers make everything comfortable. The analog buttons on each Dreamcast shoulder gives the sense that you are having more fun with this Hydro Thunder than with the arcade version. Also, every turn is made with a standard as each boat handles differently. Dreamcast Hydro Thunder Video Game Features:
- Speedboat racing through treacherous tracks
- 13 turbo-charged thunder boats
- 14 vividly rendered tracks
- Bonus boats, tracks, and shortcuts
- Split-screen mode for head-to-head play
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