CVG noticed that when you start up your WipEoutHD game, that there are some serious health warnings. It warns that if you have epilepsy you shouldn't be playing it, and also to take breaks every 15 minutes. Here is the warning:
"Always play in a well lit environment. Take regular breaks, 15 minutes every hour. Discontinue playing if you experience dizziness, nausea, fatigue or have a headache.
"Some individuals are sensitive to flashing or flickering lights or geometric shapes and patterns, may have an undetected epileptic condition man may experience epileptic seizures when watching television or playing videogames.
"Consult your doctor before playing videogames if you have an epileptic condition and immediately should you experience any of the following symptoms whilst playing; altered vision, muscle twitching, other involuntary movement, loss of awareness, confusion and / or convulsions."
After we revealed the reason behind the WipEout HD delay was that it failed "the epilepsy tests so much that it has to be re-engineered" and Sony's eventual response that it takes "consumer safety very seriously", the game is finally upon us.
We've played the review code to death that Sony passed along a while ago but we've now got WipEout HD installed on our PS3s at home via PSN.
- via qj.net





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And when I say 5 hours on weekends, I mean spread out over the two days. Besides, my daily hours during the work/school-week have decresed to about an hour and a half since I got my electric guitar.
Its just usually in tiny text that shows up for 2 seconds or in the user's manual.
It is a usual industry standard warning actually, they're all phrase pretty much like that.
But yeah, I remember hearing about them having to rebuild the game (like, from scratch), because it failed epilepsy testings pretty bad or something....
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