For a tiny, tiny studio, though, it’s a surprisingly good-looking game, although some animations are a bit stiff, and the music has plenty of chunky guitar riffs and Sandstorm-esque bloops. The game is almost absurdly sunny in tone and style, despite taking place in what seems to be a dystopia where everyone gets around on jet skis thanks to… um, climate change? The game isn’t terribly concerned with plot, let’s put it that way. If you were a gamer during the late ’90s or early ’00s, you’ll wonder if perhaps this was secretly a remaster of a game you only knew from the cover at EB Games. Riptide GP: Renegade (PC and PS4, Xbox One and mobile versions August)

They were all completely ridiculous and absurdly entertaining, and Riptide GP: Renegade is a throwback to every completely daft one of these games. Around the turn of the century, there was a bizarre trend of water-based racing games that seemed mostly to exist because consoles could render actual water, all of a sudden.

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