We are still waiting on a suitable Amiga AGA emulator with robust recording features before tackling such games.
Wipeout 3
Wipeout 3 (or Wip3out), developed by Psygnosis and published by SCEA (US Version) in 1999.
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Player's Review
"The world's fastest PlayStation racer returns.... This is the ultimate anti-gravity racing experience by which all others are judged....Accept no substitutes. 8 VISUALLY STUNNING NEW CIRCUITS FEATURING THE MEGAMALL SPIRAL LOOP. MULTIPLAYER: CHOOSE BETWEEN VERTICAL + HORIZONTAL SPLIT SCREEN RACING
HI RESOLUTION GRAPHICS THROUGHOUT DELIVER BRIGHTER, SHARPER TRACKS & DETAILED GEO-CITY LANDSCAPES 8 UNIQUE TEAMS AND CRAFT OFFER A WIDE VARIETY OF SPEED, MANEUVERABILITY & AGGRESSION. IMPROVED HANDLING AND DYNAMICS FOR PLAYERS OF ALL SKILL LEVELS. 5 GAME MODES INCLUDING ARCADE, CHALLENGE, TOURNAMENT, ELIMINATOR & TIME TRIAL. 11 DEADLY OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE WEAPONS TO WIPEOUT THE COMPETITION. SOUNDTRACK FEATURING THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, ORBITAL, UNDERWORLD, PROPELLERHEADS, PAUL VAN DYK AND NEW MIXES BY WORLD-RENOWNED DJ SASHA."
After the success of the Previous Wipeout games, a third was bound to appear but for this one they have gone in a slightly different direction. The game has undergone a massive graphical upgrade setting all the tracks inside futuristic cities with much tighter tracks and new teams and craft to compete with. The game is running in a higher res and overall gives the impression that the developers are pushing the Playstation to its limits. The game is packed with content and things to do. As well as the Single races you have the speed class tournaments, elimination mode and challenge mode which contains events lifted from Wipeout 64.
That said, I don't find it a fun game in the series thanks to the way game progression works. Single Race is the main mode. There are 4 speed classes (3 initially) with 64 possible races in each after meeting requirements for unlocking the extra four tracks and four craft. While you don't need to complete every race with a gold rating, doing so will unlock the fours secret prototype tracks. Unlike WO3se, there are no ending movies so going through everything is even less rewarding. None of the other game modes have an ending for completing all stages and ultimately the whole game does not feel very rewarding at all for the amount of content there is to complete even if there is no reason to do so as there is nothing to unlock outside of single race mode.
Recording every single mode seems overkill for me as there would be no new content to see or unlock and the only difference would be the objective. For the sake of video time I have taken the route of completing every Single Race in vector mode with a gold rating to unlock the prototype track, basically to show how it is achieved. I then do the minimal amount of races to get through Venom and Rapier to unlock Phantom and then onto the ending ... Oh wait, there is no ending and no auto credit roll. I enter a cheat to unlock all Proto tracks and then show them.
To finish off I play through all the tournaments which take you you through the four speed tiers but ultimately doesn't reward anything for completing it. I play with the Cockpit Hud enabled throughout this mode which only adds to the challenge. No scores are shown which was fixed in the special edition. I end the video with the games credits which are shown as part of the attract mode.
Overall for me, this is the weakest of the Wipeout games because it feels like grinding away your time for no pay off in the end. You just know there would be a gold every event in every mode trophy to slow your progression to platinum if it were to be released today. Most of the Single Player progression issues were fixed in the Special Edition so there is no complex route to unlock all the tracks and vehicles. Whilst this longplay is nowhere near complete, I have done all I want to show with the game as essentially, it just the same content over , over and over with some rule changes.
00:00:00 Intro and demo.
00:04:05 Single race - Vector Class (All 64 races)
02:28:37 Single Race - Venom Class
03:20:10 Single Race - Rapier Class
04:15:11 Single Race - Phantom Class
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05:15:42 Prototype Tracks (All four in Phantom Class)
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05:30:33 Tournament - Vector Class
05:39:13 Tournament - Venom Class
05:49:37 Tournament - Rapier Class
06:01:21 Tournament - Phantom Class
06:29:05 Credits
Two downloads have been made available. The first is the native emu output with gameplay in doubled 512x240 (480). The Second is an aspect corrected version in full 640x480.
HI RESOLUTION GRAPHICS THROUGHOUT DELIVER BRIGHTER, SHARPER TRACKS & DETAILED GEO-CITY LANDSCAPES 8 UNIQUE TEAMS AND CRAFT OFFER A WIDE VARIETY OF SPEED, MANEUVERABILITY & AGGRESSION. IMPROVED HANDLING AND DYNAMICS FOR PLAYERS OF ALL SKILL LEVELS. 5 GAME MODES INCLUDING ARCADE, CHALLENGE, TOURNAMENT, ELIMINATOR & TIME TRIAL. 11 DEADLY OFFENSIVE AND DEFENSIVE WEAPONS TO WIPEOUT THE COMPETITION. SOUNDTRACK FEATURING THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, ORBITAL, UNDERWORLD, PROPELLERHEADS, PAUL VAN DYK AND NEW MIXES BY WORLD-RENOWNED DJ SASHA."
After the success of the Previous Wipeout games, a third was bound to appear but for this one they have gone in a slightly different direction. The game has undergone a massive graphical upgrade setting all the tracks inside futuristic cities with much tighter tracks and new teams and craft to compete with. The game is running in a higher res and overall gives the impression that the developers are pushing the Playstation to its limits. The game is packed with content and things to do. As well as the Single races you have the speed class tournaments, elimination mode and challenge mode which contains events lifted from Wipeout 64.
That said, I don't find it a fun game in the series thanks to the way game progression works. Single Race is the main mode. There are 4 speed classes (3 initially) with 64 possible races in each after meeting requirements for unlocking the extra four tracks and four craft. While you don't need to complete every race with a gold rating, doing so will unlock the fours secret prototype tracks. Unlike WO3se, there are no ending movies so going through everything is even less rewarding. None of the other game modes have an ending for completing all stages and ultimately the whole game does not feel very rewarding at all for the amount of content there is to complete even if there is no reason to do so as there is nothing to unlock outside of single race mode.
Recording every single mode seems overkill for me as there would be no new content to see or unlock and the only difference would be the objective. For the sake of video time I have taken the route of completing every Single Race in vector mode with a gold rating to unlock the prototype track, basically to show how it is achieved. I then do the minimal amount of races to get through Venom and Rapier to unlock Phantom and then onto the ending ... Oh wait, there is no ending and no auto credit roll. I enter a cheat to unlock all Proto tracks and then show them.
To finish off I play through all the tournaments which take you you through the four speed tiers but ultimately doesn't reward anything for completing it. I play with the Cockpit Hud enabled throughout this mode which only adds to the challenge. No scores are shown which was fixed in the special edition. I end the video with the games credits which are shown as part of the attract mode.
Overall for me, this is the weakest of the Wipeout games because it feels like grinding away your time for no pay off in the end. You just know there would be a gold every event in every mode trophy to slow your progression to platinum if it were to be released today. Most of the Single Player progression issues were fixed in the Special Edition so there is no complex route to unlock all the tracks and vehicles. Whilst this longplay is nowhere near complete, I have done all I want to show with the game as essentially, it just the same content over , over and over with some rule changes.
00:00:00 Intro and demo.
00:04:05 Single race - Vector Class (All 64 races)
02:28:37 Single Race - Venom Class
03:20:10 Single Race - Rapier Class
04:15:11 Single Race - Phantom Class
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05:15:42 Prototype Tracks (All four in Phantom Class)
------------------------------------------------------------------
05:30:33 Tournament - Vector Class
05:39:13 Tournament - Venom Class
05:49:37 Tournament - Rapier Class
06:01:21 Tournament - Phantom Class
06:29:05 Credits
Two downloads have been made available. The first is the native emu output with gameplay in doubled 512x240 (480). The Second is an aspect corrected version in full 640x480.
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