Carve (XB)
Skimming across the waves like a cruise missile and packing an equally powerful punch, Carve combines the liquid physics of its environment-mapped bump-mapping (EMBM) system with trick heavy ramp action. The result is an adrenaline soaked headlong sprint straight into your screen.

By Benbik
Posted Wednesday, December 3, 2003

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Take-Two has announced that it has teamed up with Brit-based studioArgonaut to publish their upcoming watercraft racer Carve on Microsoft's Xbox.

Skimming across the waves like a cruise missile and packing an equally powerful punch, Carve combines the liquid physics of its environment-mapped bump-mapping (EMBM) system with trick heavy ramp action. The result is an adrenaline soaked headlong sprint straight into your screen.

Compete on one of 27 globe-spanning tracks that take in locations as diverse as Thailand, Iceland, Amsterdam and the Grand Canyon. Earn your water wings and then attempt to master the ultimate challenge of the Steel Ocean. But first, you've got to decide who you're going to ride as. Max - rich boy gone bad - or perhaps the allure of ice maiden cum water babe Amiko is more to your liking? Fuel inject another six wetsuit wonders into the mix (Adrienne, Moke, Oz, Nikolai, Elena and Mizuki) and prepare for a multiplayer massacre.

The game supports four-way split screen races, or eight player contests via Xbox Live. But, most impressively of all, it arrives with a team-based co-op mode that allows you to hinder other riders while giving your partner a chance to be first across the line.

It is, quite simply, the freshest most exciting water racer to ever kick up a wake on the Xbox.