Rad Hazard is a Hard/Expert-level boat that appears in Hydro Thunder, Hydro Thunder Hurricane, and in Hydro Thunder GO.
Appearance[]
Hydro Thunder[]
Rad Hazard is a very low-slung, hydroplane-style boat that has two hulls that form a somewhat circular profile. It also has a rear wing at the back with two blue lights, one on either side at the edges of it. On the sides of the boat are painted nuclear hazard symbols.
Hydro Thunder Hurricane[]
TBA
Description[]
Hydro Thunder[]
Created with scrap parts found outside the U.S. Government Area 51 property, Rad Hazard is recommended for the most experienced racers. Use the boosters to help you take corners better. The fast Mighty Hull activation time helps to keep the competition away. Fast and powerful, Rad Hazard is a boat to be reckoned with.
Hydro Thunder Hurricane[]
Short, wide, slippery and fast this strange little hybrid is tricky to master. Keep a firm hand through the turns and reap rewards in the air. Once this baby gets airborne you'll feel like you're in a flying saucer.
Hydro Thunder[]
Rad Hazard is unlocked along with Razorback and Cutthroat after completing the Medium Tracks in 2nd or 1st. It is the second fastest boat in the game after Blowfish, with a rapidly deploying booster and Mighty Haul activation time. This makes Rad Hazard a top choice in speedruns, and especially on Arctic Circle, The Far East, and Greek Isles where Blowfish struggles at getting the critical wall grind boosts on those three tracks compared to Rad Hazard. Rad Hazard is a hard boat to control, but it is still the most stable of the Hard boats by a decent margin when Cutthroat is easy to capsize and Razorback practically impossible to hold in a straight line. Rad Hazard is also the go to boat until you unlock Blowfish.
Hydro Thunder Hurricane[]
It is unlocked at 24,000 credits. Rad Hazard's handling is quite slippery, but like Banshee, once you get used to it, it really doesn't become a problem. Its controllability while airborne is extraordinary (and is rated a perfect 10/10 because of it). It also has very high speed and acceleration figures.
The All Your Base skin is unlocked by winning Gold in an Xbox Live multiplayer race in Seoul Stream (Single Race in the PC version). To unlock the Hawkeye skin, use Rad Hazard to get Gold in the Lost Babylon Expert Ring Master event. The Saturn X colorway is unlocked by finding all the hidden packages in Area 51. To unlock the Tempest Pack-exclusive Moray skin, you must find all of the hidden packages in Castle Von Boom.
The boat is also a popular choice in online multiplayer, as Rad Hazard players are a common sight in that mode. It can be considered a more advanced version of Banshee.
Hydro Thunder GO[]
No information yet
Names in Other Languages[]
- French: Danger
MORE TO BE ADDED, IF ANY
Trivia[]
- Rad Hazard is the only one of the original boats to not appear in the unreleased sequel, Hydro Thunder 2.
- The only other boat in the original game to have been built from salvaged parts is the Easy-level Miss Behave.
- Rad Hazard wasn't described in Hydro Thunder Hurricane as having been built from scrap parts, therefore supporting the possibility of Hurricane taking place in a separate continuity than in the original game.
- Rad Hazard's Henderscheid engine is named after Dale Henderscheid, who was one of the artists on the original game's development team.
- In the manuals for the console ports, however, Rad Hazard's engine is described as being "some form of antimatter, subatomic energy".
- Despite not being a catamaran like Damn the Torpedoes or Thresher, it is still classified in the original game as an Open Class boat, due to having two hulls of equal proportion. But, in Hurricane it is depicted as being a three-hulled boat, which would have made it an Ultimate Class boat, but such classifications do not exist in Hurricane.
- Rad Hazard is one of the only boats in Hurricane to not have an "X" version. This is because the "X" versions of the Novice- and Pro-level boats are Expert-level versions of those particular boats.
- Rad Hazard's creation with parts from Area 51, along with it being shaped somewhat like a UFO, references the popular conspiracy theories of the site, involving extraterrestrials and manufacturing aircraft based on alien technology.
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