Arctic Thunder
About Arctic Thunder
From the archive
This is the original PS2Home fact sheet for Arctic Thunder, preserved from the early-2000s archive. Details reflect the PAL release as catalogued at the time.
Official fact sheet
Race through 12 wild, nail-biting courses, each with a unique setting. Choose from six open courses: Blizzard in DC, Lost Himalayan City, Chernobyl Meltdown, Swiss Alps, Haunted Forest or Alaskan Pipeline. Players can also unlock up to six hidden tracks: Sports Arena, Logging Camp, UFO, China, Atlantis and Theme Park. Throughout the game, players can perform tricks to get points to upgrade their sled to pave their way to victory.
- Weapons ? Use weapon power-ups such as atomic snowballs, proximity missiles, super attack, snowbombs and more
- Hand-to-Hand Combat ? Punch and kick opponents off their snowmobiles
- Additional Power-ups ? Collect boosts for speed, shields for defense and health power-ups
- Twelve Tracks ? Six open including Alaskan Pipeline and Blizzard in DC, and six hidden
- Fifteen Plus Characters ? Six released including Willie Q., Candy and Agent 5, with more than ten hidden
- Tricks ? Perform cool tricks while getting major air to gain points and upgrade the sled throughout the game
- Upgrade Shop ? Increase the snowmobile’s power, the number, strength and accuracy of power-ups
- Battle Arena ? Battle head-to-head on several unique enclosed ice arenas (PlayStation?2 ? two players, Xbox ? two to four players)
- Amazing Air ? Jump off edges of cliffs into lushly detailed worlds
- Six Different Modes ? Race, Points, Battle Arena, Upgrade Shop, Training and Arcade
