Wipeout XL (1996) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Wipeout XL

WipEout XL is set in the year 2097, around four decades after its predecessor. Instead of the F3600 anti-gravity racing competition, the game features an even faster and more dangerous tournament: the F5000 AG…

90 30 September 1996

What Wipeout XL is

Wipeout XL is a racing game developed by Psygnosis and released in 1996. It is available on PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Amiga, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Whereas the original game introduced the F3600 anti-gravity racing league in the year 2052, Wipeout 2097 is set over four decades later and introduces the player to the much faster, more competitive, and more dangerous F5000 AG racing league. The game is set exactly 101 years after the actual release year of the game (100 in the Saturn port's case). The Sega Saturn version supported analog control by using the optional 3D Control Pad, whereas the PlayStation version supported analog control by using the optional Negcon twist controller (as on debut release of the series).

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Wipeout XL holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 94% of the 1,168 rated racing games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Wipeout XL launched on 30 September 1996, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot, Circle of Blood, Mortal Kombat Trilogy and Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot, Circle of Blood, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey.

Cheats and codes

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