wipeout 3 is busted with weapons in multiplayer. The first year in the tourney, it was not about racing at all, just finding the ****ing shield to stop the quake(that you could not outrun, and went almost the entire lap incredibly fast). A couple shots destroys the icarus, and maybe one more destroys the other ships. HOrrible, and after that first track, we went without weapons, which was very fun, since wipeout 3 has hyperthrust, there was no sacrificing speed. both tourneys after that one have been without weapons for wipeout 3. There is no skill whatsoever involved in this quake like the earlier games, just find and fire immediately . If you could turn this one weapon off (I bet this is possible through gameshark), then Icarus would outrun all other ships easily, if the person can fly it well.

A side note here: Fusion amazingly had the best multiplayer weapons damage/slowdown from weapon hits. The quake could catch you, but not if you had a good lead, and slowdown from weapons did not mean you lost the race if you got hit once.