For those of you wondering, a 78 is currently the lowest that a Wipeout game has scored on Metacritic based on credible gaming journalists.

Every other game in the series has averaged in the 80s.

That includes Wipeout 64, which was very well received by critics as a solid port of one of the Playstation’s top games to their main rival in the 5th-generation console wars. Being the first Wipeout with split-screen multiplayer was also a huge boost at the time, but in my opinion, the game has aged poorly.

And that also includes Wipeout Fusion, which was greeted with fairly large critical acclaim when it came out, but ask any ten diehard Wipeout fans what they think the worst ever Wipeout game was and I can guarantee that 7 out of 10 will say it’s Wipeout Fusion. It was a game that strayed far away from the core principles of what made the PS1 games so great, it was an ambitious title, but too ambitious for its own good.

In my opinion, the fact that a 7/10 review score from some magazine or blog is considered a failure to some gamers is a downright joke and. And the only reason it’s like this is because review scores tend to be compared to school grades - a 7/10 would scale up to be a 70/100 or a C here in America, considered mediocre by educational standards. It makes sense considering that gamers are a younger audience, but it still skews the scale.

Ultimately, a gamer doesn’t have to look far to find the one critical assessment of a game that matters the most - it’s their own.