Customer Reviews

SPLASHDOWN - XBOX

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

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!

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).

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.

This game is the only Jet-Ski game available for the X-Box, but there are immediate similarities drawn between this game, and the Nintendo 64 classic WaveRace.
The levels are creative and fun, but it's the water graphics that really make the game shine. Never before has a game captured water effects so flawlessly as Splashdown.
The controls are at first a little odd, but after a few tuturial lessons they become easier. After an hour of playing you'll be a master at carving a wake through the water.
The gameplay is fun, but some levels can get a little frustrating. It's a definite rental, but if you're a fan of water sports than you won't be dissapointed. This is by far the best Jet-ski racing game available.

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.

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.

Splashdown has decent graphics with good water textures, but it lacks gameplay. You can choose to race sea-doos, play countdown mode(which [is bad]), or enjoy free ride. The lack of gameplay makes this game get boring after a couple of days. I would not suggest for anyone to rush out and buy this title. I wish I would have rented this one before I purchased it.

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..

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!

I love this game. The Key West track is worth the ... price tag alone. Extremely realistic water effects. I give it 4 stars as there are only 2 tracks that utilize the power of the X-Box. The remaining tracks are impressive but appear to be identical to the Playstation 2 version. Still a great game!