Review: Wave Race 64 – A Thrilling Racer That’s Still Deeply Impressive

Splash wave.

This review originally went live in 2016, and we’re updating and republishing it to mark the game’s arrival on Switch as part of the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack.

Wave Race was not a well-known series prior to its arrival on the Nintendo 64. Actually, it wasn’t a series at all, but rather a single release: a top-down racer on the Game Boy. With its 64-bit machine offering the opportunity for new 3D gaming experiences, Nintendo decided to have another crack at a Jet Ski racer and came up with the very impressive Wave Race 64, a game which still manages to wow all these years later thanks to precise, elegant controls and wave physics that are yet to be bettered.

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