"Electronic Gaming Monthly" editors awarded "Wipeout 2097" Best Music of 1996 and a runner-up (behind "Super Mario 64") for Best Graphics. In 1997, "" named it the fifth top PlayStation game yet, and "Electronic Gaming Monthly" named the PlayStation version the 96th best game of all time, calling it "the first game of the cyberpunk-esque 'electronic age', before the electronic age was just a hype-filled buzzword". In IGN's top 25 PlayStation games of all-time list it ranked 13th, noted for being often considered the PlayStation's best racing game of its time and was chosen ahead of others in the series because "Wipeout 2097" was "the one they preferred to keep coming back to". In 2003, "Wipeout 2097" was inducted into GameSpot's list of the greatest games of all time. It ranks as the third-best PlayStation game at GameRankings with an average review score of 94.75 per cent from ten different sources.