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Has it really been almost five years? WipEout 2048, the last proper entry in the series, hit the Vita in January of 2012, and so much has happened since. The developer behind the series from the start, Sony's Studio Liverpool, is sadly no more, and since then the PlayStation 4 has been around long enough to already feel like something of a seasoned beast. Yet in its three years on the market the console has felt like it's had a little chunk missing. It doesn't really feel like a proper PlayStation without a WipEout to play on it. Ever since the original WipEout launched in 1995 and was at the forefront of PlayStation's push for an edgier, more mature audience, the series has been synonymous with Sony's hardware. In Pulse and Pure it bolstered the PSP, with 2048 it proved the technical chops of the Vita, and now it's doing a decent job of making the case for 4K gaming on the PlayStation 4 Pro. WipEout Omega, viewed on the right equipment, looks shockingly good.
Sublime enough to make you forget this has its roots in a brace of PSP games that are over a decade old. WipEout Pure and Pulse laid the groundwork for WipEout HD, of which this an ostensibly a remake with content from 2012's 2048 remastered and bundled in. In total that's some 26 tracks, 46 ships and nine game modes. All of which adds up to a fair amount of WipEout.
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