WipEout Pure downloads

By Tom Bramwell Published 3 June, 2005

Free track, craft and skin.

Sony has made some free downloadable content available to owners of the American version of PSP racer WipEout Pure, which people who can access the Internet wirelessly may now get hold of through the in-game Download menu.

"Gamma Pack 1" features a new track, a new racecraft thingum, and a new skin to make the game menus look prettier. Well, actually, to make them look redder, as it's a Piranha Team skin, and they're big fans of our old pal rouge.

The track, Staten Park, is described as an "evening blast through the green belt of Makana Island", correctly identifying that it is both set at night and features the colour green, and based on our initial foray it's quite an enjoyable little loop.

The new craft, meanwhile, is a Tigron Craft, which looks a bit like a cruise missile crossed with a paper aeroplane - a fight that perhaps sounds a bit one-sided, but we only mean it in a good way.

If you have a US PSP (Gasp! Naughty!) you can download the 3.5MB pack by going to the Download menu, inputting your wireless networking details and then connecting to a site where you an initiate the 3.5MB download.

Sony plans much more DLC over the coming months, including additional skins, tracks, craft and even music, absent from this release. Which ought to bloat the file sizes up a little - hopefully not too much though, as this 3.5MB download was more Alpha than Rapier in its roaring out of the blocks and into our Memory Sticks.

Still, you can't argue with the price. Or the game itself, for that matter, which we like very much, as you can see from this import review.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • Tomo #1 7 years ago

    Argh! Haven't got wireless connection :s

    /me wants.
    Edited by Tomo at 03/06/05 @ 11:47

  • sleepless #2 7 years ago

    Gamma pack 1 is available since 18. May and while I don’t care about Piranha Team skin, Staten Pack track and Tigon Craft are very good additions. May only complain is about Tigon Craft being too "well-rounded" in comparison to other crafts. It’s too easy to win with Tigon Craft on majority of tracks.

  • Tricky #3 7 years ago

    Yes, but the enemy AI still cheats outrageously - it still pisses me off the way everyone's way faster than you one the first lap and then they get slower as the race goes on.

  • Kon #4 7 years ago

    Any chance one could download this via a standard USB link-up?

  • tonynibbles #5 7 years ago

    This came out about 3 weeks ago, how come its only just being talked about on here...?

    The new craft and track are both very good. Looking forward to Gamma Pack 2...

    // EAZY F0R T3H TEGR0N WINNARZ!
    Edited by tonynibbles at 03/06/05 @ 12:05

  • terminalterror #6 7 years ago

    "This came out about 3 weeks ago, how come its only just being talked about on here...?"

    Could be its only just become available to download through the game?

  • bdaggers #7 7 years ago

    You dont need a wireless link or anyof that techno gubbins. Download it via pc, then copy to correct folder on PSP via USB.

    Check the forum for full info.

    3g peasy

  • sleepless #8 7 years ago

    "You dont need a wireless link or anyof that techno gubbins.
    Download it via pc, then copy to correct folder on PSP via
    USB."

    I don't think so. You have to connect PSP to PC to be able to download Gamma Pack 1, which is then automatically installed. At least that's how it worked for me.
    Edited by sleepless at 03/06/05 @ 12:28

  • ishigo #9 7 years ago

    I just unlocked the "Medievil" ship, also very good fun. And looks awesome too.

    Having the gamma pack installed I started getting quite frequent crashes in the game when playing Phantom tourneys... removing the pack stopped them from happening. I noticed that with Gamma 1 installed you get the Tigon appearing in regular races as an AI craft, perhaps that is not 100% stable...

  • BradlayLaw #10 7 years ago

    Could be its only just
    become available to download through the game?

    I downloaded it via the game about two weeks ago or so.

  • Valver #11 7 years ago

    This article could do with some clarification too. Its not whether you have a US PSP or a Jap PSP thats important, its the region you got the game from. The update is related to that... so US game = US patch, no matter what origin the PSP is.

    If you've got a Jap copy of the game then Gamma 2s been out for it for ages...

  • Feanor #12 7 years ago

    That's what I did, so there's a very good chance. :) I couldn't manage to download it from the official site, so I downloaded the compresed file from someone at the www.wipeoutzone.com forums.

  • onyxbox #13 7 years ago

    I downloaded this using my PSP and a wirless connection about 2 weeks ago.

  • msephton #14 7 years ago

    Get with it, this news is so old.

  • dextress #15 7 years ago

    Very old news.