"*sends out Zargz and Medusa armed with pitchforks and flaming torches* "

I gotta say that if I'd already went out and bought a PS3 you can bet I would be out there like an angry demon in a moment. That much money to play tracks I've already spent money to play...yeah, they look gorgeous in HD. Looking pretty doesn't make the game any better though.

"The fact is there are plenty more games on the shelves - so many that if there's a game mechanic that's pissing me off then there are lots of other games I can play instead. That applies to WipEout as much as it applied to Madden when they made it too arcadey and I quit playing that after six years solid."

All I play for video games anymore is wipeout. Everything else feels sort of...wrong. But I've still got all the real wipeouts sitting on my shelf at home, some of them I've yet to get the most out of. Even WipEout (1) I can easily go back to although I've pretty much played it to death already.

I see where foxy is coming from and am near the same opinion myself, although I am still enjoying Pulse, mostly for the easy across-the-world multiplayer it allows.

And yes, slapping Wipeout on the cover does NOT make it great (*cough* Fusion...). I think Pulse is a great game only because of the multiplayer. And even then it manages to screw that up sometimes with the crashes...etc...