Reviewers who gave "Wipeout 3" lower marks noted a sense of disappointment that the series broke little new ground. Stuart Miles of "The Times" admitted "Wipeout 3" was a good game, but felt that he had been expecting much more from the sequel: "It's as if the programmers have concerned themselves more with the overall look and feel, rather than further developing the existing gameplay". Alistair Wallace of Gamasutra, in a retrospective on "Wipeout 2097", remembered that "I enjoyed ["Wipeout 3"] because it was more of the same and I loved it, but I think the series ran out of its innovation. Doing loop the loops isn't a big deal really". GameSpot summed up its review of the game by judging "Wipeout 3" an excellent racer, but not able to beat "Wipeout 2097" as the best futuristic racing game of all time.