The environments are essentially theme park rides designed by maniacs: Monster Island has you slaloming through jungle swamps as giant aquatic beasts blast from the water, while Storming Asgard involves jetting through a citadel while gigantic statues of Norse gods chop at you with axes.
The handling mechanic is utterly artificial, the water effects gloopy and inconsistent, but Hurricane is frenetic, sweaty-handed and challenging stuff, requiring reflexes and timing bordering on the inhuman. 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.
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