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Description
WipEout is a futuristic racing game set in the year 2052. Racing for one of four teams, the player competes in the F3600 Anti-Gravity Racing League on six tracks. Each team's hovercraft racer has different ratings in speed, acceleration and turning. In addition to high-speed racing, there is also shooting in the game, with different weapon pickups like rockets and mines available, useful for slowing one's opponents down. Shields can also be picked up and can block the weapons' effects.
There are championship, single race and time trial modes. Winning the championship in the regular Venom class unlocks the Rapier class, where the craft are faster and the tracks have slightly different looks.
There is also a two-player mode where two opponents can race and shoot at each other.
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Alternate Titles
- "WipE'out"" -- Alternate spelling
- "ワイプアウト" -- Japanese spelling
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Trivia
1001 Video Games
The PlayStation version of
WipEout appears in the book
1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
References to the game
A concept video for
WipEout was featured in the movie
Hackers, though it is never referenced by name.
Soundtrack
Buoyed by the success of the game, Sony released in 1995 a full-length CD album called "Wipeout - the Music". 12 tracks of digital audio, rare and extended mixes featuring artists - Chemical Brothers, New Order, Manic Street Preachers, Sunscream, Leftfield, the Prodigy, the Shamen and others. Boasting 140 average beats per minute (bpm).
Version differences
The standard 1995 US version contains only the tracks from
CoLD SToRAGE. The 1997 platinum release featured three extra tracks from Leftfield, Orbital and The Chemical Brothers.
The Saturn version dropped the CoLD SToRAGE track
Transvaal from its audio selection, but included three unique songs not available on any other soundtrack or PlayStation version. The tracks were
Poison,
Planet 9 and
Brickbat. Occasionally miscredited to Orbital, Chemical Brothers, and Leftfield, these three tracks were actually created by
Rob Lord and
Mark Bandola, who are better known as "PC Music," the composers for most of the songs in
Wipeout 64.
Awards
- Game Players
- 1995 Holiday Edition (Vol. 8, No. 13) - named Best PlayStation Game of the Year
- 1995 Holiday Edition (Vol. 8, No. 13) - named Best Racing Game of the Year
Information also contributed by
AG Wolf,
Big John WV,
Garcia, and
Nick Rycar
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