Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild
- July 09, 2003 00:00 AM PST
Rainbow Studios�s sequel is bucking the trend and taking a turn a little away from the extreme.
Rainbow Studios�s wave racer is bucking the trend and taking a turn a little away from the extreme. Each course is set up like a giant theme-park ride with currents and waves; the technical time trial courses look like roller coasters; and the fun freestyle courses are enormous eight-story playgrounds with tons of hovering water pools an physically impossible structures. While the preview build revealed a game built on the classically tight Splashdown feel (only with lots more waves and trick combinations), a new arcade mode has been worked in for casual riders who don�t want to bothered with their center of gravity. Some niggling frame rate issues still need to be drowned, but otherwise, Splashdown is looking like a nice ride and a welcome alternative to Mountain Dew�attitude overload.
