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#91 Hydro Thunder

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By replacing cars with boats, you just end up with a more interesting racing game. It's just true. I genuinely believe all racing games should use boats instead.

The turbulence in the water means taking a turn is more interesting--if you're bouncing too much, you'll have trouble, so you have to pay attention to waves and timing.

And, different boat designs are gonna clearly handle differently physically, so no more looking at wheel stats, or whatever, I don't know.

Track design can be really ridiculous, you can put giant ramps, and jumps, and cliffs in the level, and it's no big deal, because boats can safely land in water and flip themselves right-side-up afterward. (Indeed, this game has some wild tracks, such as "New York Disaster", an apocalyptic adventure.)

You can also add tons of shortcuts where you jump your boat upward, and it skims across some ground into somewhere cool, and that's awesome, everybody loves cool video game secrets.

It's just better!

BEST LEVEL: Nile Adventure. One innovation in this game is, most of the tracks are epic one-way adventures (not lap-based), like Mount Wario in Mario Kart 8. Nile Adventure is the longest one of these!