All this barrel roll hating just baffles me; I find them great fun and adds an extra layer of handling and technical skill.

Claiming that barrel rolls are killing the game and compromising its realism is absurd; it is afterall an arcade racing game based on floaty ships in the future. All the tracks are from pure and pulse and where designed with barrel roll opportunities in mind and they are an integral part of modern wipeout gameplay.

Above all it makes excellent trophies such as beat zico possible, which not only requires the player to devise a strategy but also requires skill to follow it through and beat the challenge making it one of the better trophies/achievements out there!