Wipeout XL requires an Ati Rage 3D accelerator to work on the PC. However, that music didn’t make the translation, replaced by good, but ultimately repetitive techno (or electronica, as it’s been re-dubbed for US consumption). This brings up the music, which in the PlayStation version of the game was good enough to warrant its own best-selling music CD. It may well be one of the best ever seen in a videogame (good enough to be used in the music video for “Atom Bomb†by Fluke, which is in regular rotation on MTV).
In keeping with its emphasis on style-over-substance, a fantastic intro movie sets the tone. The controls are as simplified as the ones from the console version, the game’s 3D graphics are blazingly fast and, for a while, it was one of the better-looking racing games around. Wipeout XL is a simple arcade racing game.
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