Though the years have softened the original’s crippling difficulty curve, the game’s length is less artificially bloated with repeated attempts to navigate the harder tracks and bolstered more by a greater number of environments to smash around. That’s not to say that all the things we’ve been lauding the franchise for almost two decades for are not all wholly present and making the new handheld system look fantastic by comparison. But maybe for very different reasons than expected. With this in mind, it should be to the sum shock of none that the pick of the Vita’s first wave of titles is WipeOut 2048. The PSOne launch was more or less built around the futuristic racer with much being made of its electronic soundtrack blowing away the previous generation’s cartridge-based sound chips and fantastic graphics. Look down the years, and you’ll find WipeOut has been the go-to series for Sony when they want to show off the budding capabilities of a new console. What’s the point in reinventing the wheel when you can instead buff it to a gleaming neon shine then have it whirl off at 220mph." "While so much of the game remains the same as it ever was, it’s no bad thing.
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