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Splashdown is just plain fun.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Very realistic handling characteristics, excellent graphics. It's fun to crash or dump the driver just to hear their comments and ouches. Only (same old tired) drawback is that many of the tracks are locked out. You have to go through the usual career mode foolishness to get all of YOUR game useable. So far I've not been able to find unlock cheat codes listed for the XBOX version. One nice feature is the "free ride" mode, where you can race a course or drive around all you want. This Atari game has the same realistic handling and graphics as "Test Drive: Eve of Destruction" (also Atari). 1 to 4 players.

Lot of fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a game for the whole family. Even my 4 year old loves playing this game. I can not say enough, this is must have for family fun..

great entertaining game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I remember playing jet moto 2 on ps1 back in 1998 and I must say videogames have come a long way since then.Enter Splashdown.This game has brilliant,and I mean brilliant ,water effects,close to being real.It is the best jet ski game i have played.This game was earlier released on ps2.The xbox version features enhanced graphics(compared to ps2),two new exclusive courses,namely'ruminer point' and 'florida keys'.Then there is the the option to use your own soundtracks alongwith the game.Tearing through the nile river and listening to your favorite song certainly is great.This game has 3 main modes-career,versus and arcade.In all,there are 8 riders(each with unique ability),more than 40 tracks(covering 18 nicely done race environments) and four different watercraft classes.Ofcourse everything is not available from start,you have to unlock them.There are also shortcuts,hidden areas and wetsuits found in each track,if you are good enough,that is.The only negative thing about this game is the cheesy character voices.They shouldnt have included character voices.It was better without that.But leaving that the game is just great .I recommend this game to anyone who is looking for some good clean fun on the xbox.

Splish Splash...SPLASHDOWN!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I just have to say that this is the best racing/jet ski game EVER. It has GREAT graphics and so many things you can choose from. You can unlock different races, wetsuits, jet-skis, and teammates. You can customize your music to suit YOUR mood. The water is realistic and the races are fun in any mode! This is a must have for ALL X-Box Owners!

very easy,very fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is a lot of fun. While you can beat it in less then 1 week you will probably play it a few times.

ITS-JUST-SO-MUCH-FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 13
Date: February 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game, thinking it would be pretty fun, good for parties. I love water, and water parks, and hot showers, and jacoozies, and lakes, and oceans, and pools, etc... Basicly, I love water, and I picked this game up becuase of that.

I thought this would probably be a decent game...kinda fun. I never expected it to be, tho, what it was.

One of the best games I have ever played...just because of how awsome everything is. Here's what I thought of Splashdown for the Microsoft XBOX:

1) Gameplay: It's so AWSOME! Ok, heres what u do. You start out with (in multiplayer), 4 characters to race as and 3 courses to race in. THATS NO GOOD! So you have to go through the single player campaign and unlock dozens of courses, several new characters, and well, have a blast! In races, you do a time trial. You try to get the best time with 3 laps around the new course your going to race in. Whoever of the 4 racers who has the highest time goes first. Then on down... This is (in my opinion), a lot more fair than starting out 4th every race like most racing games. Now you have the chance to earn a spot. Ok, so after this, you race. The locations you race in are BEAUTIFUL! Fun, wavy, exciting water, blazing sunset, crowds, trees, etc... There are jumps to go off (tons), where you try to get a ton of air. Why? So you can do some of the COOLEST tricks around!

You can do flips, handstands, supermans (grab on to the back of your waveracer and HANG ON!!!), and dozens of other awsome tricks! You can also, if you want, flip your waveracer. There are over a dozen tricks to do for each character. Cool, eh? The more tricks you do, the faster your waveracer goes, and the bigger air you get on your jumps. As you advance, you unlock dozens of new courses and a few new characters and colorful cotumes for them. One course has you jumping higher and higher on man made platforms, leading to a *HUGE* jump at the top. Anyone who can land the jump (which is probably 50-60 feet at least), most likely wins the race. SUPER COOL! Once you unlock everything, the multiplayer is endless. I'll go into that later...

2) Graphics: The best part of the game! Lucious, blue, wavy, *WILD* water that is just waiting to be blazed through! The envirements are beautiful as well! Trees, mountains, several paths to take leading up to EVERY jump (almost). HUGE jumps, splashing water...it's incredible! The water is wild, uncontrollable! Go off a bad wave, it could flip you over. Watch as your waveracer sinks to the water on a crash, sending the rider dozens of feet into the air...OUCH! The splashing, the flips, the jumps, etc... It's just so awsome! I love playing this! The characters look cool, the specatators look awsome. It's all just so well done! Graphics here...4 stars (crowds could use some work tho!)

3) Controls: AWSOME! Pushing A lightly will glide you through turns with ease. Pushing down ALL THE WAY will send you flying through the water...and into tons of crashes off turns if your not careful. Steering is awsome, the tricks can be learned in minutes. Yet the real art of racing here takes awhile to learn. It's really quite fun, and one of the best controlling racing games I've played in a long time!

*Unlockables*: There are some areas that you can go that send you FLYING through the air at hundreds of feet. How? If you go deep into the water in some areas, a giant squid hand will come up and grab you (thats right, a GIANT squid hand will grab you). It will then fling you all the way across the course, depending on where your grabbed. Sometimes your character will hit a bridge, a boat, etc... I've even hit some of the other racers on the other end of the course. SWEET! Just more depth to a great game!

4) Multiplayer: Once unlocking everything, this is endless. You can race with all the characters, in all the locations (there are 14-15 ranging from Florida, Japan, to even Australia!). You can use different colored uniforms, and well, have a blast competing with your friend! The graphics, characters, controls, and AWSOME crashes, this game is so much fun in every way, its a MUST BUY!

Basicly, this is one of the few good water racing games you'll find on the XBOX. The graphics are awsome, the controls are great, and the multiplayer (only 1-2 players sadly) rocks! This is a game that is fun, graphicly and in controls, and has dozens of things to try. When you finally get bored (if ever), there are some cheats you can look up that let you race against Army Planes, UFO's, etc... Really cool!

This is a game that is just fun! It has great graphics, the variety of courses are so different that you'll have to learn each all over again. So many courses, characters, game types, etc... This game will keep you having fun (especially water fans) for many hours of gameplay to come!

Thx!

A good family game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: December 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Okay, there are plenty of games that are more exciting out there, but this is a really nice family game to have. It is good, clean, and fun. The graphics are good (but not great) and the physics are for the most part realistic and believable. The controls are easy to pick up and the tricks are fairly easy to complete. Splashdown contains a good mix of upbeat music and the gameplay should keep you occupied for a decent amount of time. Just remember, although the game is fun, don't expect a heart-pounding, adrenaline-producing experience.

Great family game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: November 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This one was a sleeper - hadn't heard anything about it, but rented it one day.

After playing it with my daughters (ages 9 and 7) for a few hours, we were all laughing together. Even my wife (a non-gamer) got into it. We bought it the next week.

It's lots of fun to race each other or the computer. But you can also go into "free ride" mode and just explore the different tracks. I found it to be much more fun than other extreme sports games (like Tony Hawks 3 or 4). It's easy to start playing it right away, has a nice training mode, fun multi-player races and a career mode that allows you to unlock more tracks and racers.

The only drawback is Atari's game saving. Everytime I put the disk in it asks me if I want to load the existing game again (and threatens to delete it if I don't allow it to load it).

Worth looking at

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: October 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game, and yes the graphics are nice and the gameplay is acceptable. If you like water games, get this game. However, I still like WaveRace64 better. For some reason it has a much greater fun factor and still rules the roost in my opinion.

Totally awesome Gameplay!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: August 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Strangely enough, but this is actually one of if not my BEST XBOX game.

This is the first sport, race game I've seen to totally fulfill the game racers dream.

The engineers have somehow combined difficulty of figuring out how to race WITHOUT sacraficing top speed and awesome gameplay. Totally totally awesome. I dont know hwo they did it.

To top it all off the graphics are just brilliant! I love this game so much because I truly feel like I'm in the water while racing.

You can't beat awesome graphics with awesome gameplay. How can I give it anything but a 5. I would give it a 10 in a heartbeat if it were available.

I rented this game and even though I've completed the career I will still purchase it because I love playing it.

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