Superjeepdad1 They remade a new studio under, the new franchise is called Formula Fusion. Check it out on steam. Yes, Wipeout is coming to PC, and it's from people who were actually the heart and soul of the wipeout games we loved. FYI, Release date: Q2 2016
+ScarletFlames1 R8 Games have absolutely nothing to do with Studio Liverpool. Several of them were members of Psygnosis Leeds and worked on Wipeout 3, but there are no SL staff working there.
Those are only the ones they can confirm, the ones that are still under contracts for other companies will be joining them later on. They hinted heavily at their core team being made up of the people who developed it. And even if it's "just" of those from wip3out, it doesn't change anything from what I said.
ScarletFlames1 Though, they "hinted" that they will be joining them later on. We might never know if some of the staff from SL might join R8 and develop the game. Thats why Formula Fusion is a different game from the wipeout series. The gameplay, i looked at some of the prototypes myself, it handles simillarily to the wipeout games, but differently. I feel like its SLOWER than Phantom in HD/Fury. Though im getting off topic. The first part does effect the "hinting" part of ScarletFlame1's part.
Yeah. As awesome as the intros in all the previous Wipeout games and the Gran Turismo games are, all they do are just show off all the awesome cars you're probably gonna drive. The intro in 2048 is all about the evolution of cars themselves, celebrating all the progress we've made with them, and preparing us for the progress we're going to make with cars in the future. The song even reflects it.
@@hotarushinpei4966 it's an emotional intro for sure. DJ Fresh and Sian Evans' Louder just puts the finishing touches on what I consider one of the best intros ever made.
The earlier games had an industrial, almost dystopian, feel to them. But starting with Wipeout Pure in 2005 they began to look much cleaner and more minimalistic. The older games tended to go with a hardcore techno/rave inspired soundtrack, but latterly drum and bass is much more prevalent. I like the soundtrack from the very first video best, but imo the intro from 2048 is pretty much the best opening for any video game ever.
It very nicely fits with the story. After the big boom of AG racing in 2048, big companies wanted to hop on the hypetrain and make a huge profit by upgrading the weapons and plagued the scene with super reckless and dangerous combat racing. Until the man who created the technology stepped in, declared it sacrilege, and threw AG racing back to it's roots. To see some super fast aircraft go super fast. And maybe shoot each other.
"A ball bounces; A pin drops; A man falls. Gravity is the glue which binds us to our planet. We are about to apply the solvent which will free our species forever". Good memories of all three of the PS1 WipEout titles
I have an idea for a "levitation engine", I call it magneto inertial propulsion. If it works and I become famous, I'm probably going to say this quote when it's first demonstrated, and only wipeout fans will get it.
I remember reading that in the Wip3out manual on the car ride home from town after buying it. I remember bursting through the front door, putting the TV and PS1 straight on, and sitting on that game for hours. I still play Wip3out to this day - it never gets old.
I tear up every time I watch the 2048 intro. It's just soo beautiful. The music in sync with the evolution of motorsports in that universe with the diagrams and the vehicles morphing into what became the early competition AG ships. It's soooo good.
None of these intros can compare to Wip3out's intro into the team logo scene 3:42 - 4:14. That has always been beautifully intelligent, yet haunting at the same time. Next in line maybe Pure's intro. The rest are still all great in their own right.
I like how Pure frames the themes as a bright, idealistic resurgence; not just from Fusion but from the series in general up to that point, which was pretty damn gritty all things considered.
WipEout 3 intro is my favorite, its originality and the designs choices within it made this short clip a very memorable one not only for the WipEout series but for video games in general, in my opinion.
Gotta admit I started on Pure and loved the series ever since. It's just such a well rounded game that knows exactly what it is. The racing is fast, complex and skillful. Such a joy to master.
Oh god the WipEout Fusion Intro always gave me nightmares... and the children’s laughing in the background is even worse lol It just seems extremely violent and somewhat eerie. And the gunshots tho
I recall the first Wipeout intro sequence looking so sharp due to the PlayStation ability to do FMV so well that I thought it was in realtime, the Wipeout 3 intro is definitely my favorite it just screams Designers Republic, just awesome.
First wipeout game I played was the third one. I got it at my local game shop for 9 bucks and the music is what kept me playing it for so long now that I'm older and have a better grasp on games and lore as a whole I appreciate the series that much more.
My personal favourite opening is the one from the original 'WipEout'. There's just something about an AG ship being armed and fueled by robots whilst Cold Storage's music plays in the background that makes me excited.
Wip3out. For 1999 those effects were really outstanding. It's still a niche to see such animated graphic design. These series were beyond there time every release.
spazzdineveryway The series may be dead... But the style live on in Formula Fusion, a game that some of the developers from Liverpool are working on now! :)
Meettheslenderman shame it's PC/MAC and Linux only atm :(, but my god it looks amazing :D and some of the screenshot are in Real Time, man that'll be a day one pick up from me when it goes live on steam in September as an early access
2097 was my first game. literally when i was a child that was the first game i played. Psygnosis was an extremely ambitious studio and i loved the aesthetic they gave 2097. Wish games would take note and be just as ambitious.
I miss the time when video games had intro movies. Awesome ones, like WipEout's, Gran Turismo's, Tekken's or Soul Blade's / Soul Edge's I'd never ever skip.
Personal favourite wipEout intros from worst to best Fusion: Feels far too in your face and "edgy", with the constant cuts between the animations of the drivers turning their necks 90 degrees and cuts to the same cannon firing over again. 3: The first of the good intros, Feels like a racing accident slowed down and reversed cut between footage of racing it's good for building uncertainty. and the animated team intros are really cool at the end 2097: BEEP BZZ BZZ BZZ BZZ BEEP. Grating song and epileptic flashing with cuts of a tense race and setting in-between a countdown to a checkpoint with contender elimination Pure: 3d rendering of a Feisar ship getting built from the inside out with neat track. really really cool. WipEout: The built up to a race with a very 'built from your garage' feel with pounding bass that leads up to decent audio mixing as the countdown to the race starts Pulse: Rapid, smooth editing with how the computer readout rapidly shifts through babble and graphics straight into footage of ships racing with unobstructive visuals that enhance the feeling of high-speed racing with sci-fi technology. with probably the best song of the intros. 2048: Second best track, great mixing, fantastic transition between racing vehicles up to a long scene with F1 cars, finally building up to a Feisar ship suddenly whooshing in the sky
i am not the kind of guy favoring racings but back in my times i would play WO like there is no tomorrow.For sure a very underrated racer.RIP and thanks Studio Liverpool.
When I was younger, my father loved Wip3out, and each time he started the game I came to watch the intro. 10 years later, it's still one of my favourite game opening of all time, along with the game itself :)
Played all except Wipeout Fusion (because I never owned a PS2). Currently own Pulse/Pure/2048 on my PSP thru Vita, and HD/Fury on PS3 (and Vita expansion). I remember playing many of these when they first came out and being blown away. Anyone remember unlocking the Mars track in the first Wipeout? Lol that brings back memories. I really wish they did bring back a lot more tracks from the Pure/Pulse to HD/Fury.
Still makes me sad/mad that the PS4 was the first PlayStation console to launch without a Wipeout title. Sure, we finally got Omega, but that was just a compilation of HD/Fury/2048. R.I.P. Psygnosis
I like the eerie tone of WO3 but nothing beats the intensity and rawness of the 2097 intro, it's perfect for the game. Fusion tried to do it again and went way overboard.
2048 intro looks sick, but makes a lot of holes in lore. We have a ~1930 Feisar racecar prototype... but Feisar was formed due to issues with an AG team in Europe. Next we can see a ~1964 F1 car (looks a lot like Ferrari 1512) in Feisar colors. After all of that we get to see another F1 car from ~2011 in Feisar colors, but this time surrounded by other racecars in Auricom and Qirex liveries... but these teams were not formed until 2030’s!
Amazing, thank you, this game deserves a movie. I hope compact nuclear fusion will bring to this kind of races, if we don't discover antigravity or 5th force one day
The ONLY racing game that gave me real adrenaline rush, even in the PSX era. Racing games before that was more, dunno dull?, some had complex tracks with lots of turns, so you had to have some reflexes, but thats it. Wipeout was the very first racing game i've played that really gave me adrenaline rushes and a sens of extreme speed, its a sensation that i never had before and never will have outside a Wipeout game. Plus at the time the Techno/trance tracks where on point, and it was relevant with the times, since it was then that the Thunderdome albums and Hardcore/trance genres was the most populars. I would play all day on Wipeout 2097 with only Firestarter as the soundtrack...
The intro to Wip3out made me instinctively reach out for a gamepad... I had my DualShock 3 laying within an arm's reach, so I said "fuck it" and grabbed it.
From 9:14 onward; even though it wouldn't quite be WipEout, that might actually be an interesting setting to explore. Familiar teams, familiar atmosphere, just with a different type of racing.
WipEout has predicted some pretty dystopian things happening in the real world, such as: The current state of F1 2015 FIFA corruption scandal Brexit Blackpink Orwellian surveillance happening in China and Bahrain Covid pandemic and how it affects spectator sports (especially motorsport)
Honestly I think Wipeout 2048 had the best opening, it's the only opening to Wipeout I've seen that draws more attention towards the origins of the sport. the other openings to me felt a bit like they were just doing their job and then leaving, they were like the filler episodes of intro movies (though I have to admit the intro to Wipeout Pure is pleasing to watch). I know some people will probably think I'm just choosing the newer one on account of my age and all but in all honesty I'm not bias towards new stuff, there's a bunch of new things I don't like, I just felt the old Wipeout intros were either too artsy or just kind of bland. Though I suppose they were probably more focused on the game itself.
im still hung up on the Wipeout Pure intro, i kinda think they had the best one in the entire series, but idk maybe i think it had the best intro because it was the first Wipeout game that i played
Wipeout Original, humble start of futiristic races Wipeout 2097, Industrial Feeling Wip3out, Assembling the Teams of futuristic AG-Racing Wipeout Fusion, Dystopian AG-Racing Era Wipeout Pure & Pulse, The Revival pf AG-Racing Wipeout 2048, It's Prequel of AG-Racing, but such a beautiful letter for future of racing...
OK, so here's what I think of the openings WipEout-It's pretty good. Not much more I can say it's just a good set up for the series. WipEout 2097-It's dramatic, intense, and fits the tone 2097 set (although I could do without the flashing lights at the start) Wip3out-God DAMN is the intro good! I'd almost say that the level of story telling and the pretty dark implications of it are TOO good for Wip3out. Not that it's a bad game but it would've fit WipEout Fusion better with it being the game where everything went wrong in the story WipEout Fusion-Ugh...I really don't like this opening. It's trying way too hard to be dramatic and cool imo and it comes off as obnoxious, like Fusion's soundtrack. WipEout Pure-This opening is a JOY to watch with both the visuals and music WipEout Pulse-I don't have many words to describe it other than X-Project is a bop WipEout HD-It exists as much as my self esteem WipEout 2048-Oh this might be the best opening in the series! I don't even think I need to explain why, the symbolism is just great!
True story: back when we all (except for the Master Racers) needed to decide which console to get, I decided to get the ole 'Bone just because I was so, SO disappointed and sad that Sony disbanded Studio Liverpool. Yeah, it's childish, I know, but wipE'out'' has been a part of my silly little life since it first came out and it combined everything I loved as a child. It still does and I still love the series. I thought it was one of the most creative game series out there, it had its own vision, style, it was fresh and daring. Of course this kind of fades a little in a time frame of 20 years, but HD and Fury still felt absolutely great. I still don't get why Sony cut SL loose. It was obviously a very capable team and had a long tradition with Sony. They could have let them do other games, if they thought WO wasn't profitable enough (which I still find difficult to believe), but yeah. Fuck it. Curly says GO!
Wip3out is my fave game of all time, and Wipeout Pure is by far the best intro although love the Wip3out one and 2048 one too.....i hope to god they make more! and I hope they stay true to the formula....great physics, hard tracks and belting soundtracks!
I miss this franchise so much. I'm not into racing games, but this was the only racing game series I would ever play. Could you imagine if someone brought it back and made it into a 4k VR game?!
Same here, buddy. Studio Liverpool planted a seed in my head about what the future looks like. Their artwork has a significant influence over my 3D models for that reason.
