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Humpday Gaming: Aquanaut’s Holiday

It’s hard to even describe a game like Aquanaut’s Holiday. Some would say it was a brave, early experiment in what 3D gaming could offer the player. Others might say it was revolutionary for what it tried to do. IE: Offering a game that had no enemies, or really any clear goal to what you were doing. Those are certainly valid arguments. The truth is though, as much as it was a split from the norm, Aquanaut’s Holiday was also pure fucking horse shit. Horse shit that was put in a submersible sub, and sent to the bottom of the ocean where it was allowed to implode into some sort of horseshit black hole. Then it had the audacity to make you PLAY it.

Welcome to Aquanaut’s Holiday.

To be fair, Aquanaut’s Holiday was at one point an amazing idea. The game basically revolved around you piloting a submersible submarine around a large body of water, exploring… and exploring… and exploring some more. You started the game in your little sub thing, which was nothing more than a camera angle (No on board controls or anything to let you know you were in a sub. You could have been looking through the eyes of the world’s first deep diving cow for all you could tell). You then just sorta explored the ocean around you, looking at random fish, bumping into rocks, and then slowly realizing this is all you could do in the game you just spent fifty bucks on. Though I suppose if you were the kind of person who just spent fifty bucks on a game called Aquanaut’s Holiday, then you can only really blame yourself. (more…)