WipEout XL

aka: WipEout 2097

Released

September 30th, 1996 on PlayStation

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Developers

Psygnosis Limited

Moby Score

7.8

#3,256 of 155K

Critics

81% (42)

Players

(136)

Ranking

#10 on PlayStation
#118 on SEGA Saturn
#181 on Amiga
#325 on Macintosh
#3,132 on Windows

Collected By

119 players

Genre: Action
Racing / Driving
Perspective: 1st-person
Behind view
Gameplay: Arcade
Vehicular: Hovercraft
Track racing
Setting: Sci-fi / futuristic

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Description official descriptions

WipEout XL is set in the year 2097, around four decades after its predecessor. Instead of the F3600 anti-gravity racing competition, the game features an even faster and more dangerous tournament: the F5000 AG league. The gameplay system is similar to that of the previous game: players race against each other or computer in high-speed futuristic environments, liberally picking up weapons scattered around the stages and using them against the opponents to finish the race in the highest position.

Each vehicle is provided with a shield; once this shield is breached (by weapons or other kinds of damage), the craft explodes. As in the first game, the vehicles move at very high speeds. The game's four difficulty levels are used to crank the speed up and down, with the highest setting corresponding to the highest speed. In addition to the main championship mode, there are also challenge modes, winning in which rewards the player with faster game settings, new tracks, and new vehicles.

Spellings

ワイプアウトXL - Japanese spelling

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Credits (PlayStation version)

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Managing Directors	Ian Hetherington Jonathan Ellis
Director of Development	Adrian Parr
Studio Manager	Sarah Harris
Head Producer	Morgan O'Rahilly
Producer	Andy Satterthwaite
Game Designer	Nick Burcombe
Gameplay Co-ordinator	Rob Francis
Programming Team	Stewart Sockett Chris Roberts Nick Kimberley
In Game Artwork	Nicky Carus-Wescott Pol Sigerson Dave Crook John Harris Eve Penford Darren Douglas Jeff Bramfitt Ashley Sanders Mick Harrison
Intro Movie Artwork	Nicky Carus-Wescott Jim Bowers
Intro Movie Editing	Steve Gilbert Nicky Carus-Wescott
Extro Movie Artwork	Jim Bowers
[ full credits ]

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Trivia

1001 Video Games

The PS1 version of Wipeout 2097 appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

2097

This game takes place in the same year as One Must Fall: 2097.

Multiplayer

The game shipped without a multiplayer feature, but a patch was released with support for IPX, TCP/IP, serial and modem connection.

Music

The music is actually "red book" audio which means that you can pop the CD into your audio CD player and listen to it.

References

The name of the most powerful weapon in the game is composed of the names of two first person shooting games. The weapons name is the Quake disruptor.

References to the game

The game made a cameo appearance in the 1995 movie Hackers (it's the game Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller play on a giant screen (also notice they are using the dual analog Playstation controller)).

The version of Wipeout seen in the Hackers movie was from a very early SoftImage animation created before the original Wipeout, to see how the game could possibly look. It was spotted by some movie people who wanted to put it into Hackers, so an extended version was created and tailored for the film. The sound effects track was created by PC Music.

Soundtrack

The game's soundtrack includes music by Prodigy, Future Sound of London, and The Chemical Brothers. However, all the songs are licensed versions of previously released material, so there is no new music except the intro and outro musics by by Tim Wright (aka CoLD SToRAGE). However, the PC version of the game does not include licensed music - its whole soundtrack was written/performed by Tim Wright (aka CoLD SToRAGE.)

Awards

Electronic Gaming Monthly
March 1997 (Issue 92) - Best Graphics runner-up (PlayStation version) + Best Music (PlayStation version) + Best Music runner-up (PlayStation version) (Readers' Choice)
November 1997 (Issue 100) - ranked #96 (Best 100 Games of All Time) (Playstation version)

Information also contributed by Brolin Empey, Felix Knoke, glidefan, Mike Clarke, and Zovni