3D Motorboat

Controls

First, the controls are dual. You can use only mouse to play or you can switch to keyboard. Move mouse left and right to move the boat or use arrow keys. Click to jump or hit the spacebar - check how many jumps you can make, the number of available jumps is limited and is displayed in the left upper corner.

Accessories: Shield & Fuel

Your boat has a shield but with every crash the shield is weakening. Collect blue S to recharge the shield because if it reaches 0, you lose. The same goes for fuel, collect yellow F to refuel. There is also a timer which shows you the time left to the end of the race, it counts down to 0. One more interesting thing is a combo meter that you can fill up by passing dangerously close to the obstacles and other boats as each such pass brings you a plus 1 for combo. And last but most important is the challenge meter. You have to fill it all up to finish the level, and you have to do it before the time runs out. When your boat is very close to it, you can see the meter filling. Don't let that distract you, pay attention to the obstacles and other boats on the track. Whenever you see the red letters saying malfunction, you know two things. First, you have hit something and the second you just lost 1000 points. The shield can only take so much, four hits and the game is over.

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Upgrades

There is also an interesting upgrade menu where you get to upgrade the number of jumps you have in one race, steering and bonus where you get to charge the challenge meter faster. All upgrades are extremely important for they give you better control over the boat and better chances of finishing the race.

Levels

There are 25 levels and each is placed in the different surroundings. The first race is taking place at sunset so the visibility is not as it can be during the daylight time. You win a silver stars every time you complete the race and then you can use it to buy upgrades. If you can't finish some level you simply go back, play an easier one, earn your stars and buy upgrade which will help you move forward through the levels.

In conclusion

And once more to resume, the game is quite good, graphics are OK and you have to keep an eye on several things while driving the boat. That makes it more challenging. We found this game to keep our attention for a while, so the verdict is... good one. Don't forget that this is a flash game and that it has its limitations, but works just fine within its boundaries.