WipEout Pure

Make room for the corner

The ship needs to be positioned for a bend before the wall fills the screen. Airbrakes help rotate it through the turn, but a hurried correction can leave the next corner worse. Weapon absorption adds a useful choice: an attack you surrender now may preserve the energy needed to finish. Time trials make the line easier to study, while a crowded race forces you to defend it under pressure.

Learn one course at a slower speed before moving up a class. Use time trials to separate steering mistakes from combat, and practise absorbing a pickup before low energy becomes an emergency.

Beyond the UMD

Studio Liverpool’s 2005 PSP racer also offered downloadable tracks, ships and other additions. In their contemporary GDC presentation, Dave Burrows and Martin Linklater described building a download system around the PSP’s saved-data format. Those additions are part of its history; the base UMD remains the scope of this selection.