

If you’re in first place, you can focus on picking up items that are useful to you. In 2048, the item pads are split up between offensive and defensive, so you can be a bit more strategic. MP: In previous Wipeout games, there was one item pickup pad that offered both offensive and defensive items.

PSB: Have there been any tweaks to item pickups or weapon functionality? If you suck at taking tight, twisty turns, you’ll learn to take alternate routes that tend to be less direct but offer speed pads or item pickups. So it adds a bigger strategy because you can choose your approach. If you go to the right, you pick up items and weapons that might let you take out the racers who took the left path. At one junction, you can either break to the left or the right if you go left, you’ll get six speed pads before you reconnect with the main path. In one of tracks, Sol, you’re racing down a skyscraper - it’s extremely fun. MP: Not only do we have multiple vertical levels on some tracks, we have multiple track paths. How many paths are there on the tracks in Wipeout 2048? PSB: Tell me about the tiered racetracks. So even though it’s a little bit easier in terms of its difficulty curve, this is very much Wipeout to its core. By making the tracks a bit wider, you’re able to concentrate more on the race and fighting off the other players.īut because Studio Liverpool has been making Wipeout for years and years, they understand its core gameplay extremely well. It was a barrier to entry, and the team recognized this. It was so hardcore that it actually turned some people off. Wipeout has always been known for its intense, hardcore racing in the past games, you were not only fighting the other players but you’re also fighting the track. Michael Pulst, Assistant Producer: We’ve made the tracks a little bit wider. PlayStation.Blog: What are longtime fans likely to notice first about Wipeout 2048 on PS Vita? Read on for highlights from our interview. We recently interviewed producer Michael Pulst, who gave us a tour of the new control options (front and rear touchscreen as well as motion controls), gameplay refinements, and multiplayer support between PS Vita and PS3. This fast-paced combat racer has appeared on every single PlayStation console, and now it’s preparing to make the jump to PS Vita with Wipeout 2048.
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If there’s any game series that’s synonymous with PlayStation, it’s Wipeout.
