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High speed mayhem guarenteed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is just one hell of a challenge. If you like your gaming fast and hard then this is it.
Graphics are very good, the tracks are varied and always look good (sometimes it would be nice to just stand and stare but there's always races to win and enemies to beat)and sound is top notch but it's the gameplay that does it for me. When I play a game I like to have the difficulty setting just right so that I get a kick out out of finally achieving a win. Wins that come too easy just fade but hard victories are sweet.

One thing that I just can't seem to do is get perfect laps. It is very hard to avoid hitting the sides. This is not so important in arcade or league modes as you can pit in or give your craft a boost in shield strength but in challenge mode when you need to do fast laps it is critical especially if you want gold - getting bronze/silver is always within reach with a bit of practice but to get gold you gotta be something else. That's the way it should be though, golds should not come without a lot of effort.

The action is fast and furious in arcade and particularly in league as you need to perform well over 3 to 7 races.

In short if you are a speed freak then this is the one. It's a damn sight better than Extreme G3 which I found frustrating because your momentum and shields were well and truly lost if you collided with the sides. WF lets you get on with the action with hitting the sides only becoming an issue if you want to really progress in the game.

The game keeps track of the playing time and I been playing this game for about 60 hours now and it still rocks. Get it!

The Fastest and the best futuristic racer to date!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: May 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is off the hook!!! It's mad fun and the graphics are top notch!! I recomend this title to all racing fans out there who's looking for some high speed action and intense speed!! Get your copy today!!!!!

Wipeout will keep you coming back for more

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The speed, the ships, the courses are superb. This title continues to set the level against which all race games are measured. There is more than just racing to this. Unlock the zone and you will never be able to leave, trying to get to the next zone. There is no limit to the number of zones.

Enjoy the feeling of seeing your oponent disappear through the force of a quake. Use your air brakes to make the jump and take you round the corners of the corkscrew. Addictive as hell, not to be missed.

Bam! has a winner!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: May 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Played this game while at the E3 Expo in California. I'm a great fan of the franchise and the game totally was great.

Wipeout Fusion

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: May 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

hi everyone,

Wipeout Fusion is here out in Europe, so I decided to give it a try... If your looking for the 'original' wipeout feel, like wipeout 2097, wipeout 3 or wipeout 64 DON'T buy this game. The only thing related between wipeout fusion and the wipeouts described above is you are flying a ship which can fire weapons.

Sensitivity has changed, weapons is not as good, music [is not good]!

Now don't get me wrong, I love wipeout 2097 & wipeout 3... I would rate them 5 stars...

Wipeout Fusion

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

hi everyone,

Wipeout Fusion is here out in Europe, so I decided to give it a try... If your looking for the 'original' wipeout feel, like wipeout 2097, wipeout 3 or wipeout 64 DON'T buy this game. The only thing related between wipeout fusion and the wipeouts described above is you are flying a ship which can fire weapons.

Sensitivity has changed, weapons is not as good, music ain't great!

Now don't get me wrong, I love wipeout 2097 & wipeout 3... I would rate them 5 stars...

Bam....... Uh.... What happened?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: June 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Im a fan of the Wipeout series, not a big fan but just a fan. I do like the thrill the series gives with super fast hovercrafts and the blazing techno soundtrack that is accompanied in the game. But this one just doesn't do it for me. I mean all you will notice is improved graphics which isn't really impressive, better and bigger environments but that is about it. No replay value to it. Of course you can play with a friend head to head but that's not much fun after a while. You'll also notice that the controls are alot and I mean ALOT stiffer than the previous wipeout games. The controls can get a little frustrating at times especially when you get to the higher levels of speed.
I say give this one a rental. I don't think it's worthy of a buy for your PS2 collection in my opinion. Such a disappointment but oh well. Oh and one more thing. THe soundtrack for the game is a little old and outdated for me.

Not Perfect, but still a blast!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: June 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The 4th episode in the Wipeout Saga, Fusion was originally set as a launch title for the PS2. During its 2 years of delays, other games tried to tap the formula(Extreme G Racing , Kinetica , Star Wars Racers Revenge) to mixed results. Now the game that started it all is back, and Im happy to say , mostly lives up to its reputation.
The first thing is the control. There was nothing better than making that perfect lap in Wipeout Xl or Wipeout 3 , the control of those games was dead on. Fusion has a different feel, ships feel more 'on rails' than previous games, almost making it harder if your used to the physics of the older games. But a little time with it, and I was screaming around the tracks like the old days, and as you progress and the better ships and higher speed modes come, the control is fine.
There are a few graphic problems, which is why I didnt give it perfect marks. There are polygon pop up's , and when the action gets heavy, the framerate slows down, making it difficult to steer. Those problems aside, the graphics are great, crisp track designs, and little touches on weapons are spectacular. Dust kicks up when your off track and on the ground(although its a nod to pod-racing that should have been left out of Wipeout) and the ship designs themselves are high polygon and very cool.
The soundtrack features great tracks by the likes of Orbital, Timo Maas, Luke Slater, Hybrid and more. A much more breakbeat feel this time, but the tracks are fitting and sound great.
All in all, its not perfect, But the best thing out on PS2 of this type. With tons of stuff to unlock, and awesome 2 player weapons, youll be playing this a while. :)

Do Not Buy This Game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: July 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm a HUGE fan of the Wipeout series, the original Wipeout was the one reason I bought a playstation. Wipeout XL came out and blew me away, it is still my favorite PSX game, wipeout 3 came along and was very good, made great use of the analog controllers and introduced more style to the game. Wipeout Fusion however is nothing but a burden to the series. It doesn't look like a 128 bit game, it looks more like a cart racing game for N64. After playing Fusion for a couple hours when I first got it, I had to stop playing, and play some XL just to make sure that I wasn't having a bad dream. This game is definitely not worth $[money], probably not even $[money]. Go buy Wipeout XL, or 3 if you want a good racing game, or buy Gran Tourismo 3 for PS2 if you don't feel like getting an old school 32 bit game, whatever you do, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.

sigh, what a shame...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 14 / 19
Date: July 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There have been so many PS/2 games that weren't quite what they should've been. I don't care so much about light sourcing or smoke effects in the games I play; I want games that are well-polished and fun to play. Too many PS/2 games are relying on good graphics to carry the day.

Unfortunately, the Wipeout Fusion designers seem to have focused more on the dust and smoke and less on the game itself.

The graphics are OK. The resolution is noticeably better than in the PSone (of course), but there are noticeable popup effects and framerate problems as well. (In bad cases I've seen the framerate slow to what appears to be less than 5 frames a second. Wip3out at its worst was better than this.)

The gameplay itself also has significant problems. The first noticable issue is that it's tough to compare the different ships--unlike the first two games, each ship is on a separate screen and the various statistics aren't directly comparable. Not a huge problem, but it struck me right away as something easily fixable but quite annoying... especially as some of the more advanced ship descriptions are less than helpful.

There are also some big clipping problems. I've gotten my ship blown through walls, mountains, rocks, you name it. The game recovers cleanly, and sometimes it's even an advantage (depending on where you can be placed back onto the track) but again, it's annoying. I can't recall this sort of problem ever happenign in Wipeout XL/3... Maybe the designers considered this to be a feature, but I haven't found it so, especially as the ship often ends up in very strange places and can even get trapped.

Some of the new weapons exacerbate the clipping issues. One of them (gravity bomb) gives your ship a high acceleration before stopping it dead, and the high acceleration causes a lot of the clipping issues. (It also has a very large area of effect, which I can't say is a feature either.)

Another annoying feature is that the CPU ships have access to all the weapons, including the ones that they weren't allowed to use in Wipeout XL/Wip3out. I've lost many races because five or six trailing enemy ships decided to release Quake at the same time, and there's no defence; you lose. Ditto with Gravity Bomb or some of the other area-effect weapons. The enemy ships also have eyes in the back of their heads, as they're amazingly skilled at blocking your ship.

None of this would matter so much except for the structure of the league races, where losing one race can make all the difference between earning an overall first place finish and not--and you have to come in first to advance. I'm also not that thrilled with the whole credit system for upgrading ships, as it just requires playing the league series over and over and over and over...blah.

Finally...it just doesn't feel anything like the originals. The physics are strikingly different; it's almost a totally different game than the first two. I also miss the Designers Republic influence on the game, and I'm totally missing the point about the big heads (er, sorry,pilots), as there's no real personality behind them. And why would anyone find looking at preliminary sketches of the artwork interesting? That's a pretty crummy extra.

In short: it feels about 3/4 finished. I hate to judge it against the first two, because of course it's allowed to be its own game, but I'd give it about 50% for the effort. They should've called it something other than Wipeout, and really finished the game before releasing it.

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