WipEout Fury Dated
By Peter C [ColossalBlue], Site Editor

We’re pretty excited about the upcoming WipEout HD DLC. You might have noticed, we talk about it whenever we get a chance. Well, thanks to the wonders of Twitter and a bloke called JamboGT (not even sure if he’s on TSA) We’ve got another excuse to talk about it. Excitingly we’re getting to tell you that it has an official Sony release date. OK so for the time being it’s only on the official Hong Kong site but we really can’t imagine Hong kong getting the content and the rest of the world being denied it.

The date to mark on your calenders is July 24th 2009. Which is soon, hurrah!

are there any news about release from wipeout hd fury?

cheers, novide

p.s. love wipeout since 2097

Hope it helps a bit.

Thank you for sharing all your thoughts and ideas about design and gameplay. This is so rare nowadays, I have read all of it, and bought WipeOut HD one week ago. I love it !

One question: could you, one day, add Motion Control ? This would be awesome with a game like Wipeout …
Iam thinking about a future update, as this would need tweaking/testing I guess.

Cheers.

We love cutting edge, futuristic architecture

Natural environments are cool too but we there`s more scope to legitamising crazy shapes with man made structures.
If we tried the same thing with landscapes the tracks would start looking like they were set on an alien world.

cheers
marcus

You`re right, the Fury’s architecture and ship designs have evolved from the original HD game which gives Fury a distinctive cutting edge aesthetic.
However, as a result of developing the designs of the original game the Fury pack we have achieved continuity with the look of HD.

Thanks
Marcus

My main concern with the stat increases is that it might skew online time trials towards Fury’s craft if it means laptimes are permanently reduced using them, but knowing the Wipeout crowd, I’m sure that’ll just encourage some players to try and eke out as much performance from the original craft as they can to match them. Aesthetically speaking, I prefer the look of the Fury craft.

WipEout Fury trophies have been uploaded, so the DLC is coming…but when ?

Top secret, huh ?

Thanks guys.

You know you made one of the best games ever with WipEout HD, so I’ll get right to my question. It’s regarding WipEout environments : why so many artificial settings compared to natural ones ? In HD, 6 tracks out of 8 are in an urban environment. A lot of players have fond memories of the endless plains, forests or deserts in the previous titles. Will nature make a come-back in the future ?

That is a good idea but, no I’m afraid not. You can either choose the WipEout music or a created playlist. Sorry.

Thanks,

Paul.

I’ll tackle your questions.

1. The HUD thing I don’t think will be an issue. The three new modes have their own distinct HUDs which work well and shoe-horning them into the WO3 or 2097 style would have taken a long time to develop and test and might not have even worked. You’ll see when you see them just how specific to the modes they are. Also, it’s not like they’re in the same style per se as the HD HUD either. They are pretty much their own thing(s).

2. It’s certainly an interesting idea to explore the WipEout Universe in other genres but nothing is planned at the moment.

3. I understand the concerns about the stat increases but they’re so minor that they don’t make that much of a difference in race. The old ships can still hold their own. When you’ve played it, let us know if you agree.

Thanks,

Paul.

1) While I realise that time issues prevented the alternative HUDs from being modified for Fury, is there a chance that you might consider releasing an update to include them later down the line? While the visual design in HD is gorgeous, I can’t help but feel the subtlty of Wipeout 3′s HUD feels makes it feel less in your face about the information it presents.

2) Considering how much attention has been lavished on HD’s environments, and the fact that it still posesses a unique style compared to most videogames, have you ever thought about branching its world out into another genre? There’s so much variety to the landscape that I hardly doubt I’m the only player who’d love to explore more within an action adventure setting (particularly after playing Mirror’s Edge).

3) Aren’t you concerned that the stat increases to Fury’s new ships might unbalance the game with regards to the original craft? I believe the improvements are supposed to be small it runs a risk of alienating vanilla HD when it comes to time trials.

(Apologies for the double post, mods. Some of this appeared on the ship design blog yesterday by mistake post-login)