GameCube

Wave Race: Blue Storm

Description

Wave Race: Bluestorm is a sequel to Nintendo's Wave Race 64. It incorporates several modes of play, a variety of racers, customization options, and tracks. Players can race in four tournament cup series, compete in time attack mode against the best track times, compete for points in stunt mode, and simply take in the eye-poppingly beautiful graphics in Free Roam mode. Multiplay is supported in Stunt and Race modes. There are a total of eight racers to choose from, each with a different balance in engine and handling. Customization is limited, but players can change the color of their racer, optimize the engine for either acceleration or speed, and optimize handling to be either tight or loose. However, settings have little effect on the racer's actual performance. There are eight different courses, however, there are a total of 19 racing tracks laid out across these courses, plus one stunt track for each course. Also, there are five different weathers, consisting of Sunny, Partially Sunny, Light Rain, Rain, and Stormy. These weathers can have dramatic effects on tracks, making a track raced in Sunny weather totally different when raced in Stormy weather conditions. The AI is fairly well balanced, but will cheat to stay with a player.

Alternate Titles

• "ウェーブレース　ブルーストーム" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Group

• Wave Race series

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What Improvements Has "Blue Storm" Made Over It's 64-bit Cousin?

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The Press Says

The Video Game Critic	Jun 28, 2007	A	100
Gamer's Pulse	Dec 03, 2001	89 out of 100	89
N-Zone	Jul 06, 2003	87 out of 100	87
GameSpot	Nov 06, 2001	8.5 out of 10	85
Jeuxvideo.com	May 15, 2002	17 out of 20	85
UOL Jogos	Dec 12, 2001		80
Game Informer Magazine	Nov, 2001	7.75 out of 10	78
Gamezone (Germany)	Oct 02, 2001	7 out of 10	70
Retrogaming History	Jul 20, 2009	7 out of 10	70
Game Revolution	Nov, 2001	B-	67

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Trivia

The characters Akari Hayami, Nigel Carver, Rob Haywood and Ricky Winterborn are based on characters from 1080° Snowboarding, although they do not carry the same name.