<div style='font: 9pt verdana; text-align: left; '>I'd just like to lord over you all because for the first time since Terranigma Australians have gotten a game before you guys in the States :).
It's pretty neat. It suffers a little for not having Designers Republic doing the presentation (some of the new company logos, Tigron's in particular, are weak), but it still looks very nice, and it still mostly feels like your standard super-stylin' Wipeout game.
The soundtrack is very strong. Hooray, Future Sound of London!
The graphics are very very nice. Plenty of ships to race against, plenty of background eye-candy, lots of little details (seeing the pilot of your ship is a lovely touch), excellent weapon effects... there's a little slowdown on the more complex tracks when a lot is happening (say, five or six ships on screen are all rocket-ing and earthquake-ing each other), but I've got no other complaints. There's no noticeable draw-in (this can, I think, be attributed to clever track design as much as a strong 3D engine -- there aren't that many really long straights).
Ship handling is excellent, although for some reason it feels a little less real than the last Wipeout I played (2097 -- bear in mind it was a couple of years ago so I could just be imagining things :).
It's <i>hard</i>. I had to race the first track in the first tournament half a dozen times before I could even <i>finish</i> it. It gets a little easier as you upgrade your ship, but yeah, I've got a pretty nice ship now and I still get annihilated if I don't play conservatively. Your opponents are really aggressive and the tracks twist like those excellent little Chinese girls, the ones you can fit eight of into a jar of jam.
There are a bunch of secrets, unlockable things like new pilots, craft and teams, as well as weapons and tracks and blah blah blah. Lots of replay value (this is a problem I had with the other Wipeout's -- not a lot of incentive to keep playing, unless you're one of those crazy Wipeout zen masters whose life's goal is to wipe a fraction of a second off their already transcendant record).
And... er, I'm getting kicked off the computer by my sister, who wants to check her mail. Apologies for being scattershot. It's excellent! :)</div>
It's pretty neat. It suffers a little for not having Designers Republic doing the presentation (some of the new company logos, Tigron's in particular, are weak), but it still looks very nice, and it still mostly feels like your standard super-stylin' Wipeout game.
The soundtrack is very strong. Hooray, Future Sound of London!
The graphics are very very nice. Plenty of ships to race against, plenty of background eye-candy, lots of little details (seeing the pilot of your ship is a lovely touch), excellent weapon effects... there's a little slowdown on the more complex tracks when a lot is happening (say, five or six ships on screen are all rocket-ing and earthquake-ing each other), but I've got no other complaints. There's no noticeable draw-in (this can, I think, be attributed to clever track design as much as a strong 3D engine -- there aren't that many really long straights).
Ship handling is excellent, although for some reason it feels a little less real than the last Wipeout I played (2097 -- bear in mind it was a couple of years ago so I could just be imagining things :).
It's <i>hard</i>. I had to race the first track in the first tournament half a dozen times before I could even <i>finish</i> it. It gets a little easier as you upgrade your ship, but yeah, I've got a pretty nice ship now and I still get annihilated if I don't play conservatively. Your opponents are really aggressive and the tracks twist like those excellent little Chinese girls, the ones you can fit eight of into a jar of jam.
There are a bunch of secrets, unlockable things like new pilots, craft and teams, as well as weapons and tracks and blah blah blah. Lots of replay value (this is a problem I had with the other Wipeout's -- not a lot of incentive to keep playing, unless you're one of those crazy Wipeout zen masters whose life's goal is to wipe a fraction of a second off their already transcendant record).
And... er, I'm getting kicked off the computer by my sister, who wants to check her mail. Apologies for being scattershot. It's excellent! :)</div>
