Playing the campaign is vital to unlocking tracks and vehicles as your original selection is rather limited. Luckily, if a particular track in the campaign is too hard, the game will give you the option to skip it after a few fails. Tracks are a little wider than in previous games, giving you a little more room to maneuver, but the game is still not for the fainthearted and requires delicate use of the airbreak. Some of the earlier races are a bit more forgiving, but the difficulty ramps up quickly – perhaps too quickly – from B to A class. Every single turn matters, every boost, every weapon. That for many is the best thing about WipEout, and for others the worst – there are no second chances in a race. Sometimes you’ll have to choose between driving over a boost, a green defensive pad or a yellow offensive pad, with your choice possibly deciding the outcome of the whole race.
You’ll need to hit a good percentage of the boost pads to stay in the race, as well as make use of the multitude of defensive and offensive weapons that will either protect your craft or destroy others. In fact, sometimes the amount of colorful chaos exploding on the screen can detract from the experience simply by obscuring the racer and the race track.Īs expected with a WipEout game, you’ll need to make clever use of the boost and powerup pads littered along the track, which seem to be more prevalent in this game than previous entries.
It runs beautifully and smoothly, no matter how much is going on on the screen. Unlike the 60fps WipEout HD, the game runs at only 30fps, but you won’t notice. A fully fledged Vita WipEout title, 2048 immediately sets itself apart from the system’s other launch titles with its looks – Golden Abyss might be more technically impressive, but nothing else tests the OLED screen’s colors like the dazzlingly vibrant WipEout.
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