H2Overdrive and Hydro Thunder Hurricane

[Spatial]

Our review of Hydro Thunder Hurricane has just gone live

http://www.console-arcade.com/2010/07/26/review-hydro-thunder-hurricane/

[SuperBeatBoy]

Nice review. I want this sooo bad, just seeing someone in my friendslist been playing it for the past couple of weeks has me frothing at the mouth.

[teddymeow]

Cool review and the trailer on the last page makes the game look cool - if a little slow. Is that just me?

[ezee ryder]

Been playing it for the last week or so too. Quite surprised actually, it really is a good game. Well worth the 1200 MS points.

[EvilBoris]

I'm hyped for this, I adored the original, played it to death ont Dreamcast/N64

[TheForce]

8/10 from Edge : http://www.next-gen.biz/features/hyd...rricane-review

looks like the game is a lot of fun to play (like the DC one) really can't wait to get my hands on this tomorrow !!

[Richie_uk]

Looking forward to this, and its my day off....win win !

[nakamura]

Lost my enthusiasm for this for some reason. 8 tracks didn't help but I will try it out if there is a demo.

[Kron]

There is always a demo for Live Arcade releases.

[EvilBoris]

it's on the dash now btw

[Richie_uk]

Just you get you all in the mood, the water physics look great.

[EvilBoris]

but it won't let me buy the full game!
damn them!

[merf]

won't let me buy it either, plus you can unlock quite a lot in demo so don't want to turn it off and lose my progress.

[EvilBoris]

I've found a hidden page to unlock it on xbox.com

buy it via that then go to your active downloads on console and it'll ping up and unlock

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-GB/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8025841096a/?p=1&of=7&bt=0&sb=1#offers

[nakamura]

Gave the demo a good run with both tracks. Nice demo.

Came away feeling rather underwhelmed. It does look nice but it doesn't run particularly well at times. Also the overuse of blurring effects are rather annoying, certainly when going over the huge jumps as it ruins the view of the scenery. Water looks lovely and I love it when it opens out to the sea on the second track at the end, lovely atmoshpere.

Gameplay is overly simple, just left and right but no up and down control to dip the boat. The boost is obviously the main part though.

The 2 demo tracks were good with good shortcuts and plenty going on. Some great large waves mix things up too. The Ring Master mode I thought was a lot of fun and great for time trials.