Pulse on PS2 now official!

[Lance]

The PS2 is stiLL selling in large numbers. The port could be a good cheaply acquired and much needed income source for Sony, which is in substantial financial trouble.

[Chill]

Oh really??? Perhaps I should start checkin' up on facts a bit more...

Still, all the PS2s I had boughten seem to definately lack in their ability to read disks more these days then it had back before the PS3 was existent... mabye that's the reason it sells so much, so many people have to buy another one...

[Xavier]

hmmm... I don't use the down button trickery...

Wait, I meant "up"! Up as in forward. Sorry!

I doubt they'll actually release this, but it would (as several people have said) be easy money, and many games are still being released for the PS2, so it's hardly an obsolete console. Add in all the DLC and call it Wipeout Pulse SE!

[Sausehuhn]

Okay folks, it's official: Pulse comes to the PS2. Definitely. The German USK just rated the game.

Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment
Alterseinstufung: Freigegeben ab 12 Jahren gemäß § 14 JuSchG
Prüfdatum: 29.01.2009
USK Nr.: 23861/09
Sprache: deutsch
System: Sony-Playstation 2
Genre: Arcade
Untergenre: Racer

So it's time for me to find a cheap PS2 somewhere


EDIT:
Release date: 18.02.2009
Price: 43,99€
Additional features:
- all DLC included
- Splitscreen Multiplayer
- 7 Single- and Multiplayer game modes.

(referring to Amazon Germany)

[Chill]

Oh well... if it comes out, I'm gettin' it anyway... lol...

[Xavier]

Official ordering page from Amazon.de!

€43,99 for the PS2 edition

(Is that a very high price compared past Wipeout games in the EU, or have they always been that much?)

[JABBERJAW]

A few reasons to get it

1) It will look better on the television than the component to television for psp

2) It will run at a higher framerate ( could only guess this is true)

3) split screen for friends to come over

4) the controller is far better on ps2

5) no more hand cramps


A few things I would have liked though:

1) negcon support

2) all pure tracks

3) all fusion tracks (seriously, those are nice tracks, and their designs are wasted at this point

4) I doubt link mode will be in it

Question Marks:

1) What will the physics stlye be? (pure, pulse, HD)

2) What are the game options (one on ones for faster framerate would be nice that was left out of HD)

3)

[Sausehuhn]

Having all DLC and a Mulitplayer gamemode included is more than I expected. I'm pretty sure that if Sony alone had to make the decision how to release the game, the PS2 Pulse would not even have the DLC included. Fortunately SL had a finger in the pie.
Pure tracks could have been included as they need no recoding. Though, there's still the work you've to put into an reworked career mode etc.
Fusions tracks are wasted potential, true. But I didn't expect them to see them on the PS2 again (maybe on a future PS3 WipEout - Fusion HD anyone?) as they probably require a lot of recoding to get rid of the frame drops. Not to mention that the 3-tracks-per-environment doesn't fit to either Pure or Pulse. And then there is still much work left with Magstrips and re-arranging the weaponpads to fit the game physics/weapons. And of course: testing.

[Tomahawk]

A few things I would have liked though:

1) negcon support

Is it confirmed anywhere that it does not have negcon support? All PS1 / PS2 wipEouts supported the negcon controller somehow, so my hope that this PS2 Pulse supports it too will only die if some official site confirms it or if I tried it out for myself after buying the game...

[Hillo]

This is too good to be true.

[DawnFireDragoon]

as much as i want it...and beleive me i want it, i have been going on and on about this forever...i don't count this info as official.

it has appeared on websites for pre-order with supposed info before...earlier in this thread we found some sites.

a word from sony, studio liverpool or seeing it in a shop and i will believe it! and seen as the first two won't/are unlikely to be happening, i think we'll have to check the stores on the 18th/19th/20th, the wedneday, thursday and friday of february to see for ourselves.

that may sound negative, but i'm going on past experience with getting solid info on this game.

with regards to rumoured features, i would have picked it up anyway, but with split screen and all dlc, that would be a no questions asked purchase...and i can see a lot of ps2 owners wanting and buying this. especially with big games like persona 4 still coming out on the console...keeping it popular and its sales up

sony need to put a trailer out, even if it's a short one, probably just online to get awareness of it up.

or at the very least get a statement out to the popular gaming websites and that one big fansite to get people hyped.

[GreenPhazon]

I personally always preferred Pure (if only I could find my copy). I'm happy with HD for the time being, so woulod rather they tried to come up with some new tracks/ships/online eliminator mode.

[DawnFireDragoon]

a ps2 version of pure would be nice, but just any new wipeout for ps2 is a good thing.

i imagine they're hard at work on tracks for hd, it's not been out that long, making new high def tracks can't be easy...give 'em time.

[Xavier]

Sausehuhn, you say that the Pure tracks need no recoding? So the same "engine" was used to create the tracks for both games?

There are so many Pure tracks -- all the original ones, plus the "regular" extra content, plus those freaky Euro-only ones (which I could take or leave, though if they had more normal-looking background designs, I'd like them more). A few touch-ups so that you can drive them in both directions (Pulse's white/black system), and you might have over 100 possible courses!

I've always been a fan of racing games with a smaller number of interesting courses (F-Zero GX) than a huge number of courses that all seem alike (F-Zero Climax). But it sure would be fun to have so much material, all on one high-quality PS2 disc. And of course you can never have too many music tracks.

But to tell the truth, I just want this game to come out in some form or another. All the rest is just a bonus.

[Sausehuhn]

Actually, no: Pure's tracks do not have the same count of polygons compared to Pulse and I'm sure they may not works as good with Pulse's physics as they do with Pure's. Then of course you have to re-program parts of the tracks so they have both directions (as you said).
But I'm pretty sure Pure's tracks are esier to port than Fusion's - that's what I wanted to say.
And even though Pure's tracks are relatively easy to convert for PS2, it's probably still enough work you would have to put into it.

[JABBERJAW]

they don't have to go in reverse, just put them in as is. Pure's tracks would all be fine with Pulse's physics, since pulse is a much easier game to control the ship.

[Chill]

haha... I was about to say... they took some of the tracks from Pure and put them on HD with Pulse like physics, so I don't see why not the rest..

Yeah I can't really say I like the weird tracks from the euro version of Pure... I mean, yeah I beat pure twice just to have them with the euro version cause they're hilarious, and it's the first time Wipeout ever used a track as a certain unique style of artform in history, so I got them... They will probably be collectables down the road...

I'm kinda hoping for a re-vamped version of the Original Wipeout... or if not, XL or 3... or just all PS1 Wipeouts in general... I mean, they did it with pure and pulse... so it's not something that couldn't happen further down the road right?!!

[lunar]

I really hope some form of PS2 wipeout happens. Pure tracks are probably a beautiful pipe-dream, and it sounds 50/50 at best to get anything. I would add that if "nose down to go faster" is still in the game my interest in it will be somewhere between cool and indifferent

[Asayyeah]

My interest will be at its highest possible if Xlink Kai may connect us online to fight together on a big screen plus Neggie ...

Playing on a big screen , no doubt, Negcon suported : i am at 50/50 on that dream ( BR by twisting ? ) , playing through Xlink kai i am pretty sure it's possible : if games got a multiplayer option that could be enough to let us play through Kai.

I am also glad SL finally decided to release a port of Pulse on ps2 BUT ps2 owners need to be aware there's a new Wipeout on PS2 : please advertises it : big ads requested

[rdmx]

Talking about Kai, does anyone know when AdHocParty for PS3 will get released? I want to have a chance to play Wipeout Pure against someone