Thunder Offshore (1997) - PC Futuristic Racing Games

Thunder Offshore by NoriaWorks Entertainment, 1997
The team behind Speed Haste - see • Speed Haste (1995) - E... - created this boat-based futuristic racing game. It's very ambitious, using a voxel-based engine for the landscapes. You have a range of teams and boats to choose from, here I show all 12 tracks available when you start the game.
There are some great special effects, semi-transparent weaponry, a tidal wave effect to take out rivals, weather changes, even a water reflection effect shown in the thumbnail for this video! You have 10 types of weapon to attack your rivals with, but they are limited and some you need to collect as you race around.
It can be a bit chaotic at times though, and the camera doesn't always track you very well, plus the collision detection is a bit hit-and-miss, but it's a unique and particularly fancy game. It was also the last game NoriaWorks developed.
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The graphics of this game give me a strange feeling. The voxel graphics have a sort of uncanny look to them, if that's the right word. Reminds me of Vangers a little, perhaps I'll check this one out! :P Looks fun.