Wipeout (1995) (1995)
Wipeout (1995) is a 1995 racing video game made by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
The year is 2052, the circuit is the F3600 anti-gravity racing league, and the craft handles nothing like a car. Psygnosis's Wipeout arrived as a PlayStation launch title in Europe in 1995 and landed with the force of a statement: sleek ship designs by the Designers Republic, a licensed soundtrack drawing from The Chemical Brothers, Leftfield, and Orbital, and racing that demanded fast, committed memorisation of each track. Weapons complicated the calculus. The whole package felt designed for a different era of games than had existed before, cool in a way that most games were not even trying to be.
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What is Wipeout (1995) about?
The year is 2052, the circuit is the F3600 anti-gravity racing league, and the craft handles nothing like a car. Psygnosis's Wipeout arrived as a PlayStation launch title in Europe in 1995 and landed with the force of a statement: sleek ship designs by the Designers Republic, a licensed soundtrack drawing from The Chemical Brothers, Leftfield, and Orbital, and racing that demanded fast, committed memorisation of each track. Weapons complicated the calculus. The whole package felt designed for a different era of games than had existed before, cool in a way that most games were not even trying to be.
When was Wipeout (1995) released?
Wipeout (1995) was released on 1 January 1995.
Who made Wipeout (1995)?
Wipeout (1995) was made by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
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The pure kinetic pleasure of high-speed track mastery connects to Rocket League, which channels the same arcade precision and short learning loop into a different kind of physical spectacle. Both reward repetition with the feeling of controlling something that should be uncontrollable.