Splashdown is a racing developed by Rainbow Studios, released 5 November 2001 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What Splashdown is
Splashdown is a racing game developed by Rainbow Studios and released in 2001. It was published by Atari Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Splashdown is a water racing video game for the Xbox and Sony PlayStation 2. It can be played by one or two players. Splashdown is quite similar to Nintendo's Wave Race series. Players take control of a personal water craft as they race against each other on various courses. Players must pass the correct side of buoys on the way or the personal water craft may stall as a penalty or they get splashed by a whales tail.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Splashdown holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 52% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Splashdown launched on 5 November 2001, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Melee, Grand Theft Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Halo: Combat Evolved. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Melee, Grand Theft Auto III, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Halo: Combat Evolved.
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