Pai Pai's OFFICIAL WipEout HD Super Fun Seizure Time Thread

[Pai Pai Master]

I'm not happy.

Sony Liverpool's WipEout HD was supposed to be out this time last year.

I played a near complete build. 10 months ago.

Thankfully, after all the waiting, it's finally almost out. The game was heavily delayed (rumoured to be the result of multiple failures of industry standard epilepsy tests), and Sony's finally ready to launch it on the PSN.









Look at it. LOOK AT IT!

The game runs a beautiful 1080p/60fps over 8 different tracks (16 including reverse tracks), with various race modes and the super-awesome-equalizer-on-the-track Zone Mode. It also features 8-player online racing and 2-player offline splitscreen racing (though it caps to 30fps in splitscreen). It'll also include trophy support and custom soundtracks.

Despite being delayed and despite the devs adding quite a bit of features post-delay, the game launches this month (the rumoured date is Sept. 25th) for only 11.99 GBP. That's roughly $20 for us lowly Americans.

[Feba]

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Is it just me, or are the vehicles really detailed in places where it's just silly (on the bottom!) but the track textures look REALLY BAD? I mean, I'm sure it looks at least ten times better in motion, but still.

Have a link to ayn 1080p gameplay videos?

[Pai Pai Master]

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Well. When you're moving at 5 billion miles per hour, the ground textures won't be that noticeable.

Here's the last trailer released for the game.

[ame=http://www.gametrailers.com/player/39814.html]Gametrailers.com - Wipeout HD - Gravity Ends Trailer HD[/ame]

I think there's some 1080p gameplay footage lying around on GAF, I'll scour the interwebs for it.

[Feba]

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I did watch that, although I'm pretty sure GTHD's was just 720p. To me, the tracks and racers look incredibly unimpressive in motion; even last gen. The backgrounds are more appealing, but still hardly impressive for the PS3; and they're not what you're supposed to be looking at =/

[Malacite]

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Off topic, but when the hell is Mega Man 9 due out?


And yah this looks like a cool game ^^

[Pai Pai Master]

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Price is confirmed $20 for the US version of the game. Release date will be confirmed shortly on PS.Blog.

Here's some new footage.

Video - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

Video - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

Video - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

Video - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

Whoever is playing really sucks.

Watch that third video especially. Zone Mode is something to behold. That's the mode they had to tone down due to epilepsy issues...but it ended up looking more breathtaking instead of hectic.

Few new screens as well:

[TheGrandMom]

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Deleted cause I'm a putz and didn't see it was previously posted.

[Balfree]

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wipeout is silleh! D:

ships on a road?... ...

[Tickmeoff]

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F-Zero looks pretty sweet in HD.

[Raydeus]

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Techno + ultra high speed ftw.

Now if only the stupid PSN started accepting my cards. -1

[TheGrandMom]

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Raydeus the cards are out by you? Can't even find them here for pete's sake. It was funny, my son and I went to a few stores looking one day. One stop was at Target. We just happened to be there when the Sony rep was there. We asked her directly about them and she said none were out in our area. So we asked why and got the "well ahhhhh" bs and then she tried to distract us by giving us some shinies and sending us on our way.

[Raydeus]

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Nah, those are only available in Japan or something (or at least that's what I thought). I'm talking about regular credit/debit cards. Can't purchase anything on the PSN store unless the card is from Canada/USA.

[TheGrandMom]

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Ah ok. Thought I was getting the shaft......well I am still but at least you are too.

[Pai Pai Master]

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Meijer and 7-Eleven stores do carry PSN cards now. Not sure why Sony chose those two stores to distribute to first. By the end of the year they'll (finally) be widely available. It's funny, the latest NPD shows that Xbox Live and Points cards are high on the top 10 accessories list. It's surprising Sony's taken this long to basically print free money.

[Raydeus]

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I wonder if buying a card from Amazon (when available) would work. <_<; But they would probably be unable to ship them here.

Going to buy the Matrix next month when they release it for Blu-ray along with some soundtrack CDs and other movies, so was thinking maybe I could give it a try.

I've heard virtual cards work too, but I have no idea what those are or how to get them.