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Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild
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List Price: $19.99
Our Price: $14.66
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Product Details
- Batteries Included: 0
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- Binding: Video Game
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- EAN: 0742725226388
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- ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
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- Features: This sequel to the original Splashdown offers an even wilder arcade action experience, Blast through massive imaginative locales with amazing sights and startling events around every corner, Splashdown's famously beautiful water now features bigger waves, swift currents and treacherous downhill rivers, New stunt-chain system allows you to kick off more than 60 separate stunts and execute up to 360 different stunt combinations
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- Label: Take Two
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- Manufacturer: Take Two
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- Model: 742725226388
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- Platform: PlayStation2
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- Product Group: Video Games
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- Publisher: Take Two
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- Studio: Take Two
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- Title: Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild
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- UPC: 742725226388
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: Rainbow Studios created quality dirt racers with its Motocross Madness and ATV Offroad Fury games. Now it seeks similar success in the water with Splashdown. Featuring four licensed Sea-Doo watercrafts, nine playable characters, and 18 environments, the game packs plenty of features. Add in exquisite graphics, precise physics, tight controls, and challenging gameplay, and you've got one of the best jet-ski games on the market. The game's water effects are simply astounding. This is among the most realistic water ever seen in a video game. Furthermore, it behaves in such a lifelike manner that you'll marvel at how accurately it reacts to movement. The detailed and lush environments are located in a variety of regions and cities, including Nice, Seoul, Tokyo, Venice, Loch Ness, Mission Bay, the Nile River, and the Bering Strait. While the controls are very responsive, it does take some time to get used to the game's challenges and master its more than 30 tricks. Musically, the game is a bit derivative, attempting to emulate the soundtracks found in other extreme-sports games. And while the game offers some variety in the its training, career, arcade, and versus modes, it's disappointing that the multiplayer option only supports two players. Splashdown is not a perfect game, but it is an excellent title that offers plenty of replay value if you have the patience to get past its initial learning curve. Compared to the competition--specifically Wave Rally and the GameCube-exclusive Wave Race: Blue Storm--this game offers a superior experience with better graphics and deeper gameplay. --Raymond M. Padilla Pros: - Beautiful water
- Excellent control and physics
- Plenty of levels
Cons: - Somewhat steep learning curve
- Multiplayer only supports two players
- Limited selection of vehicles
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Customer Reviews
Not the type of racing I enjoy!
There just seemed to be no point to this game. I did not like it at all.
I thought it was going to be a type of game where you would be able to get in a "ride" and see what it would be like. Boring!
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Not as good as the other playstation game
This is ok for graphics.. the learning of the control is not easy and it was a un-realistic ride. I ski often and just did not feel comfortable. I bought the other Playstation jet ski game and loved it!!!
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A good game
My advise: Don't buy this game, just rent it! This is a perfect game for a week-end, after a few days you get bored of it. The graphics are O.K and also the play, but is too short. The difficult level is, well, difficult and you are going to lose your patience very fast.
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Racin' on the water
First of all, this game is beautiful. The graphics in this game are incredible, and the detail in the water is perfect. Another great thing about this game is it's large selection of tracks that are all detailed beautifully. Some people don't really like the music choices that are in this game, but I didn't have a problem with it. To me, everything about this game is superb.
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Pretty water, but is it fun?
Yeah it's pretty fun.
But you know what bothers me most about this game? The trick system. Most of it is just button combinations, like in a fighting game. You don't feel much connection to the buttons you press and what the animations are doing. It feels a little too restricted and just not that thrilling. You can do a back flip but it's really slow - impossible to do two of them in one ramp. As far as barrel rolls, well, there are none. In Wave Race 64, they might not have been a big variety of stuff, but I was actually maneuvering the watercraft in the air. When I would land a double barrel roll I let out a big fat YESSSS. I never say "YESSSS" when I play this game. But yeah, the water is pretty dang pretty to look at. The rider models ain't too shabby either, although they all look pretty much the same. I wish the game had a freestyle mode where it focused on pulling off tough tricks. Even in free ride, I've tried to ramp around but everything seems pretty regulated. Things were in Wave Race 64 too, but all you needed was an imagination as well as a little creativity and you could take that game APART, LOL. But yeah, Splashdown's water is pretty dang pretty to look at.
Another thing is the music... It doesn't appeal to my taste particularly - but that's just me (I would have gone with a more generic aquatic sounding music that anyone could get used to). I wouldn't say that the game sucks for its music though. If you like Smashmouth and The Donnas (which I do not) then you'll be fine. Even if you don't, just turn it down low and it ain't so bad since you're distracted by the pretty water.
I don't want to give you the idea that this game sucks with all my nitpicking. There are a suprising amount of tracks, good control, unlockables, and secret shortcuts. It's worth getting for the price that it's selling at. Oh yeah, and one more thing - pretty water.
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