WipEout

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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

Part of the Following Groups

• Genre: Car / motorcycle combat
• PlayStation Greatest Hits releases
• PlayStation Platinum Range releases
• Setting: 2050s
• WipEout series

User Reviews

Better than Playstation version? You decide...	SEGA Saturn	AG Wolf (277)
A little piece of history	PlayStation	Ashley Pomeroy (233)
A interesting piece of history, but little else.	PlayStation	GAMEBOY COLOR! (2002)

Critic Reviews

Hobby Consolas	SEGA Saturn	May, 1996	90 out of 100	90
neXGam	SEGA Saturn	Jul, 2011	9 out of 10	90
Video Games & Computer Entertainment	PlayStation	Nov, 1995	9 out of 10	90
Game Zero	SEGA Saturn	Sep, 1996	42 out of 50	84
Coming Soon Magazine	DOS	Feb 14, 1996	84 out of 100	84
Eurogamer.net (UK)	PlayStation 3	Jun 29, 2007	8 out of 10	80
PC Player (Denmark)	DOS	1996	80 out of 100	80
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	SEGA Saturn	Jul, 1996	28.5 out of 40	71
PC Joker	DOS	Dec, 1995	46 out of 100	46
Computer Games Magazine	DOS	1996		40

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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
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  • Wikipedia: Wipeout (Information about Wipeout at Wikipedia)
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