Bundle me up Scotty,
Included with the Hurricane are three CD's of software. One of which is the PowerDVD 3.0. Amazing. It's like buying a Honda and later finding out that they've thrown in a Lamborghini V12 engine, at no extra charge. The two games are limited demos. Rune will expire in 7 tries, and Terra: Battle For Mars requires you to register before you play it. Also present, but not listed, is the Yamaha YXG50 midi synthesizer. It has lots of features for the young, budding composer.

Ah, yes, Terra: Battle for Mars, a Massively Multi Player Sci-fi Battlefield game. Now, I'm about to get cranky… maybe I missed some part of the back story on this game, and I probably wouldn't care anyway, but since when did Mars have oceans and plants and red-coloured fog? Stupid. It's a tosser. I watched some kid play the game for about 10 minutes and they didn't fire a single shot. Because there weren't any other opponents. Save yourself some grief and disk space… just don't install it. Mars doesn't need saving.

Control Panel
In the most basic of ways, the Hurricane is really easy to use. It's drivers are fairly stable, if you install the omnipresent downloadable patch, and nicely unobtrusive. WinXP Pro didn't even need to reboot, but I did anyway after a while.

In the same manner as the Santa Cruz, the Hurricane installed its drivers as a colored speaker in the system tray only in red. From there you can access various output settings, the Windows audio control panel, and the EQ. Take a look. And thank God that their drivers don't mess with equalizer setting like Creative's do.