#Wipeout omega collection pc update

When Studio Liverpool came to define the PS Vita Wipeout, they took us back to the very start of the anti-grav racing league, designing a world that mixed modern day with Wipeout’s future minimalism. Some of it feels better suited to VR though, with the conceptual differences between 2048 and the HD and Fury levels. There’s a wealth of content in Wipeout Omega Collection, and all of it can be played in VR, from delving into the custom Racebox to the three pronged career and racing online.

There’s a real sense that the track on certain tracks is just taking a hard 90º turn so that you’re suddenly flying up what is effectively a wall. As you race, the verticality and gravity defying twists, turns and ramps are fantastic. There’s a wow factor to sitting in the ship’s cockpit on the start line and looking around to take in the surroundings.

Thankfully, despite having barely touched my VR headset this year, I felt right at home with the game and was able to turn off all of the comfort settings to get as close to anti-grav racing as possible – I’d still suggest starting off with all the assists on and dialling them back one by one. It’s good that they’re concerned about this, but it’s also a little off-putting that if the developers are worried about this, then it could be about to get messy. Even once you think you’ve found some settings that you’re happy with, some tracks and modes come with a notice that they’re more likely than most to induce motion sickness and that they’ve altered your VR settings because of this. The first time you load up in VR, you’re confronted with a notice about the various VR comfort settings, from different degrees of cockpit stabilising to a “peripheral mask” and dynamic field of view.

#Wipeout omega collection pc update

Simply put, the work that’s been done to translate this to VR is remarkable and feels so natural to me, but there’s an obvious wariness about the suitability of this game for some players – thankfully the update is free and Sony are planning to release a new demo soon.