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Wipeout 2097 (1996)

Wipeout 2097 (1996)

Wipeout 2097 (1996)

Wipeout 2097 is a 1996 racing video game made by SCE Studio Liverpool.

Wipeout 2097 turns the anti-gravity racing circuit into a weapon. Craft from eight teams, each with distinct handling and top-end speed, tear through courses like Gare d'Europa and Valparaiso at speeds where the track barely stays visible. The sequel to the original WipEout sharpens everything: tighter weapon balance, steeper difficulty curves, and a Chemical Brothers and Prodigy soundtrack that feels inseparable from the blur on screen. This is where the series found its identity, cold and precise, designed to punish the uncommitted.

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A few thoughts on Wipeout 2097

If the machine-tooled brutality here appeals, Burnout Paradise delivers the same high-velocity recklessness from a different angle, trading the clinical future-sport feel for open-world chaos. Both games treat the crash as part of the spectacle.

Pure speed racing

Anti-gravity craft pushed to the limit, weapons as part of the race strategy, tracks that punish any loss of focus. These games share that same no-mercy velocity.

Street-level adrenaline

When the setting shifts from space to asphalt, the same obsession with speed and illegal competition carries over. Neon-soaked, bass-heavy, built for the night.