Originally it never ran at 60fps, and so despite being the newer game it benefits the most from the remaster and being released from the confines of the PS Vita. All three career modes, for each of the thee releases, are also available separately.Ģ048 was set in the early days of the sports’ fictional history, so is the least sci-fi of them all, which adds a bit more variety to the backdrops. Rather than being treated as a separate game it’s integrated in with all the rest of the tracks, just with an option to play them in HD or 2048 mode.
Apart from the soundtrack there’s very little that’s actually new, but then Sony shut down the original Liverpudlian developer and it’s not clear who’d take their reigns for a new game.Īs it stands the last new game in the series is 2012’s PS Vita launch title WipEout 2048. With 26 tracks (plus reversed versions of each), 46 different ships, and nine game modes, the Omega Collection certainly can’t be faulted for the volume of content. WipEout Omega Collection (PS4) – fast and furious WipEout has always been a punishingly hard game, but to aid new players there’s now a driving assist which helps to nudge you away from corners and get used to the frictionless handling (well, they are anti-gravity cars). The basics are exactly the same as always, as you race your futuristic hovercraft around a series of neon-coloured race tracks while listening to painfully hip dance music.
Critics unanimously praised the games 1080p visuals, smooth frame rate, and techno soundtrack a feature many critics recognised as a hallmark of the Wipeout series.
The Fury expansion pack was released a year later and further transformed the game with new modes and tracks.Ībsolved of the need for gimmicky new features WipEout HD is basically the sequel you always imagined way back in 1995. Wipeout HD and its expansion pack received positive reviews upon release. Although that itself was an enhanced remaster of PSP games WipEout Pure and WipEout Pulse, incorporating all their tracks and adding in new content around them. It’s not that though, and instead the ultimate evolution of what started out in 2008 as a PlayStation 3 game called WipEout HD. Although we consider WipEout HD Fury to be the best of the franchise, we can imagine some fans were probably hoping that this would be a remaster of the original PS1 games.