Hydrophobia is an adventure developed by Dark Energy Digital, released 29 September 2010 on Xbox 360.
What Hydrophobia is
Hydrophobia is an adventure game developed by Dark Energy Digital and released in 2010. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox 360 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Hydrophobia the player takes the role of engineer Kate Wilson who works on the cruise ship Queen of the World. Unfortunately terrorists took over and placed bombs all over the ship and after detonating them chaos breaks loose. Now Kate has to fight for her life. In this environment water plays an important role and it emphasizes realistic water representation. Water is the main component in many of the game's puzzles in which Kate uses her kinetic powers, gained in the second half. Other puzzles involve using an universal device to hack security installations (as a mini-game) or find out codes to open doors. Those are written in an invisible font on walls and have to made visible with…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Hydrophobia holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Hydrophobia launched on 29 September 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach and Super Meat Boy. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Sid Meier's Civilization V, Halo: Reach, Super Meat Boy.
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