Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild

by Sony

Product Features

• Choose from 9 over-the-top characters with unique and rebellious personalities
• Pilot powerful sea-doo watercraft, each with unique handling to put you in the hot seat and give you maximum control
• dynamic wakes, rolling waves, and turbulence bring the experience to your home
• boost your performance meter by pulling off increasingly complicated tricks and defy gravity
• blast through 18 photo-realistic locations.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005OLWW
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 6, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,787 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #67 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Racing

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

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

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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Splashdown (best sea racing game ever), December 1, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild (Video Game)

With 20 huge levels and state of the art water realism splashdown boasts the best water racing game ever made. I played this game through and found it offered extremely well planned levels and great physics like its highly aclaimed brother "ATV off-road fury".
On a scale of one to ten...
Graphics 9.6
Sound 9.2
Gameplay 9.5
Control 9.4
Load Time 9.7
Characters 7.6
Levels 8.9
Replay value 8.5
Overall 9.4
The things I would change about this game have little importance as to how fun the game is but i wish the levels were a little more interactive, its like floating through a still life and that the characters wernt so wacky, it takes away from the games realism with the stupid voices which I ended up turning off. Fantastic game overall

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing!, November 23, 2001

By 

Patrick (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild (Video Game)

I don't usually buy games like this but when I saw the pictures of Splashdown I knew I had to have it. Needless to say, I was not disappointed. This game is absolutely amazing! I have a Sea Doo and ride it every summer and this game captures the exact feeling you have when you're actually out there in the water. The only difference is you don't get wet when you play this game which is actually a good thing when it's winter time and the water is too cold. I don't know how they made this game but they are geniuses.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Jet Ski game I've ever played!!, November 22, 2001

By 

Ronnie Densford - See all my reviews

This review is from: Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild (Video Game)

I recently purchased Splash Down. I am a big fan of Rainbow Studios and the games they create. Once again i was not disappointed. You really get the feeling of riding a jet ski in the water. The water is so realistic you think the waves are going to come through the screen. The handling of the ski is right on. The music, courses, features, etc... are great. I highly recommend this game to anyone.