There's a basic race mode, but players can also take on extra timed challenges – such as Gauntlet, which fills each circuit exploding barrels.Īfter a few seconds of sloshing about, some gamers will write this off as shallow, but they are wrong, wrong, wrong. Swishing over power-ups earns you a boost to your power, while discovering hidden shortcuts allows you to sneak ahead of the other 15 competitors. You race a series of progressively faster and more unstable boats through eight increasingly insane water circuits. For now, though, we can enjoy Hydro Thunder Hurricane, a rollicking remake of the cult Midway speedboat racer, which is utterly unapologetic about its hardcore coin-op roots.
Clearly, it's not something we'll have to worry about ourselves, but we may have to break it gently to our grandchildren. T here is a possibility that, one day, developers will run out of arcade classics to update for Xbox Live re-release.
