WIPEOUT OMEGA COLLECTION SOUNDTRACK MOVIE

It was mainstream in the best way possible, with games like WipEout being titanic system-sellers at the time.Īlmost 22 years later, how does WipEout perform with a new coat of 4K paint? Beautifully. The PlayStation One didn’t just revolutionise the gaming industry, it made it more acceptable than ever before. Here was a console that wasn’t just a huge step up in video game technology, but also a device that had more eyeballs on it. With a selection of tracks mostly handled by Tim “CoLD SToRAGE” Wright, WipEout was the game to have when the PlayStation first launched. If a decade can be defined by its music, then WipEout is the poster child for that era’s soundtrack. So what’s this got to do with a video game about futuristic racing that gave the Newtonian laws of gravity a high-speed middle finger? Everything.

WIPEOUT OMEGA COLLECTION SOUNDTRACK MOVIE

Hell, if you bought the CD soundtrack for the 1998 Blade movie starring Wesley Snipes as a vampire who really didn’t have time for arrogant bloodsuckers ice-skating uphill then I’d bet easy money that you owned that disc solely for New Order’s Confusion track that was played during the blood0-rave scene.

I’m talking the Chemical Brothers, Leftfield and New Order. That’s a decade that gave us the titans of the club scene.

Thanks to computers taking a tremendous leap forward in that decade, just about anybody with a demo copy of Fruity Loops could be a DJ. If the 1980s were the age of power ballads and the wider explosion of rap culture’s street knowledge, then the 1990s were ruled by sounds of an electronic variety. I like to imagine that every decade is defined by its music, audio trends which highlighted a culture of the time.

Wipeout omega collection soundtrack