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While the time trial mode is a great inclusion! Especially if you want to found all the secrets, i dont understand why this mode isnt present in the other versions. All of this without saving the game and with one boat, so its like a more challenging version of the arcade one, although you dont unlock nothing and is in part frustrating.
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The career mode works exactly like the arcade mode, but you have to obtain money to race in the tracks, and if you run out of money you lose. The PS1 version gets two exclusive modes: career and time trial. You have to fight with the artificial difficult, and if you know all of the secrets, the game is very short, you can complete in half hour if you know everything. You can unlock more boats and tracks getting 3rd place or better for the medium tracks, 2rd place for the hard tracks and for the bonus ones you have to get in 1st place, and simply this is a very hard task. If you watch a guide with all of the shortcuts and boots, you can win the race every time, because like i said, it works like a puzzle game in some extend. This racing game in part works like a puzzle game. The racing itself maybe its not groundbreaking, but you can do some techniques that extends a lot more the gameplay (similar to games like Crash Team Racing): Cornering, Hydro Jump, Super Start, the hidden shortcuts, this game is all about secrets to win the race, although i dont like that the IA is programmated with rubberbanding and you have to find these secrets obligatory if you want to win the race, even in the easier tracks! So it can be frustrating. The game consists in water races with good variety of tracks and boats with different stats (although the game doesnt show up). And well, how it holds up? I play the Arcade version and the PS1, but also i read some differences between the N64, DC and PS2, so this review would be in general. Hydro Thunder was one of the games that i have the most nostalgia for it.