{"id":9556,"date":"2011-10-03T13:42:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T20:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=9556"},"modified":"2011-10-03T05:15:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T12:15:11","slug":"help-wanted-wipeout-hd-fury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/10\/03\/help-wanted-wipeout-hd-fury\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Wanted: Wipeout HD Fury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"9556\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Help_Wanted_Wipeout.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Help_Wanted_Wipeout.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Help_Wanted_Wipeout\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9557\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to our continuing grant from the National Foundation for the Preservation of Old Videogames, our &#8220;Help Wanted&#8221; program is now in its second week.  This week, we&#8217;re revisiting a Playstation 3 exclusive that was made available free as part of Sony&#8217;s apology for the Playstation Network being closed for so long.  You did get your copy of Wipeout HD and the Fury add-on, didn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Wipeout in general, and HD&#8217;s Fury add-on in specific, is some of the most thrilling sexysleek sci-fi combat racing you will ever do.  In multiplayer, it basically comes down to who knows the track best.  But there are Mario Kart style power-ups that help level the playing field.  We&#8217;ll play some regular races on the more forgiving speed classes, but we&#8217;ll also try Fury&#8217;s Eliminator and Zone Battle modes.  Eliminator is scored based on damage and kills against other ships and Zone Battle is a trippy cyberrific risk\/reward calculation about who can build up the most speed while dropping barricades on the field to mess up the other races.  I&#8217;ll briefly explain the modes from the lobby, but the guide you can access from the main screen features a description in the &#8220;Race Types&#8221; section.  While you&#8217;re there, look over the icons for the different pick-ups.  There are only ten, and you&#8217;ll want to get a sense for what each one does before jumping into a race.<\/p>\n<p>The controls might feel weirdly floaty depending on which ship you take.  Wipeout is a game about maglev hovercraft thingies, after all.  Consider enabling the pilot assist mode to help you from hitting walls, which is the exact thing you don&#8217;t want to do in this game.<\/p>\n<p>The races will begin on Wednesday, October 5th at 6pm Pacific\/9pm Eastern and will last for at least two hours.  Just add tomchick to your friends list on the Playstation Network before the starting time on Wednesday.  Then I&#8217;ll host races limited to friends only.  Go to &#8220;Online&#8221;, then &#8220;Join Game&#8221;, then check the races on the list to find the one hosted by &#8220;tomchick&#8221;.  If a race is in progress, you&#8217;ll have to spectate until the next race, but the races are short and few games make for spectating as sexy as Wipeout HD.  And if you have a Bluetooth headset, it&#8217;s pretty painless to get it to work on the PSN if you want to chat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Help Wanted: Wipeout HD Fury - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/10\/03\/help-wanted-wipeout-hd-fury\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Help Wanted: Wipeout HD Fury - 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