[PS3] Wipeout HD; Oh my God, look at the size of my erection, micropenis notwithstanding

Originally Posted by Colonel Skills

One of us needs to get off our lazy asses and make a thread for this game.

I'm just bored enough to be the man for the job.

Wipeout HD is basically a "best of" remix of the PSP games Wipeout Pure and Wipeout Pulse. It's got the 8 best tracks (with forward and backward variants), and all of the music from those two PSP games. It has of course been prettied up to make use of the PS3's power, and it shows. It'll run in 1080p HDTV at a constant 60 frames per second, all with extremely high-res textures and fantastic effects.

Pics courtesy of OmagnusPrime:

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

Some screenshots taken real quick with WipEout's in-game photo mode, in case you were doubting how sexy this thing is (click for full 1080p size):

Still shots don't do the game justice. Seeing is believing when it's blazing along at 60 fps.

The game has a single player campaign mode, a quick race mode, two-player split screen multiplayer, and online 8-player multiplayer. The types of races include standard beat-the-rivals modes in single race and tournament varieties, as well as a hot lap and time trial solo modes. Perhaps the coolest is the Zone mode, where you are given a virtual reality ship that continuously accelerates, and your job is to try to stay out of the walls and stay alive as long as possible. Oh yes, it also has trophies, so rejoice all you achievement whores.

All in all, this game is a huge amount of content for the $20 price. Download it off of the PSN store and come get raped in multiplayer by Colonel Skills today!

Edit: Official Website: http://www.wipeouthd.com/

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Been racing online, and then decided to mess with photo mode.

Mirage team 2nd livery. Mirage team 3rd livery.

And, found this angle completely by accident, but liked it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Since I didn't follow the other Wipeout games, I had no idea that each team represents a country or group of countries until I found this site. Kinda weird they left that info out of HD. It's not critical, by any means, but I like a bit of fluff.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

The Icaras is good, but only if you get the holeshot, manage to avoid getting shot up, and can stay out of the walls. It's fast enough that if you get out front you can leave everyone behind and have a peaceful race by yourself, but it's fragile, so getting stuck in the pack is bad.

I got sick of exploding and started using the Triakis for a while. It's amusing, but still hard to win with.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Yeah, I use the airbrakes too much. Slows me down, and because of the slide effect I tend to get T-boned by the kamikaze pilots that figure steering is optional.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Oh, that released. I gots me some purchasing to do.

I bet I still won't be much of a challenge for Skills though.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?