Surprised by mostly positive steam score for this, because its truly bad game.

Graphics looks okay but there is nothing breathtaking about it and presentation is ruined absolutely wooden animations for racers.

Gameplay is abysmal. Controlling your jet ski is tough and ungrateful challenge, waves on some levels just making race a constant gamble - am i going to fly into some sign while riding a wave or maybe i wont crash? AI is crazy, there is 8 participants in every race (it’s too much because 90% of tracks very narrow) and bots dont care if they win or lose, their one and only desire is to ruin your experience. They will stumble at your jet ski, crash and block you to the point that your vehicle will turn opposite direction, everything to make your life miserable. Add to it terrible physics and you get torture instead of gameplay.

Game modes also very by the numbers - classic racing championships and freestyle mode where you need to perform various stunts to get high score (only to get disappointed because your score is beaten by cheater AI). There is also challenges from some renown athletes, i guess but they are just boring racers or time trials. Also there is multiplayer, but no one playing THAT with friends, its DOA.

All I can say is if you want to play such racer either get Riptide GP or download PCSX2, find some classic ISO like Splashdown and play that. Difference in graphics compensated by far superior gameplay.