The introduction video about progress in racing vehicles in history ends displaying the unforethought abilities of new antigravity floating cars, or rather ships, which move not touching the ground, thus freely from friction and able to perform and reach otherwise-impossible moves and speeds. It is the year 2048. WipeOut 2048 , a futuristic racing game, part of the launch software for the PS Vita, places its temporal setting at the beginning of the WipeOut chronology. Success is achieved by both eliminating rival drivers and preceding them to the goal. The gameplay essentially consists in ultra-speed racing displayed at 30 frames per second, as well as using weapons against other racers. Tracks are wider, having been planned to simplify a gaming behaviour focusing on attacking opponents. As racers float, the lack of friction with the ground makes their physical behaviour different from that of ground-touching racing vehicles, particularly increasing sensitivity to steering, which lays stress on gameplay's trickiness. The single-player campaign consists of a succession of events of four varieties: Race, Time trial, Combat and Zone event. For each of them, there are 2 requirements (a standard and an elite pass one) which, if fulfilled, disclose one or more than one new events. Each event belongs to a speed class, that expresses its degree of difficulty; each Zone event, however, can be played in all speed classes. Events are visualized in a honeycomb-like grid: success in one mission opens the way to one or several new ones; besides, the choice to go past an event is given to those who fail it for a certain number of times. Race events principally revolve around driving fast: requirements are usually to rank in the first three or first. Courses for race events are designed to ease sheer speed. In combat events, success exacts an elite pass; players must use their ships' strongest bodies and most powerful weapons. Finally, Prototype ships are peculiar, experimental vehicles obtained through success in prototype events. Music is composed of electronic, techno dance, dubstep music licensed from groups such as The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Kraftwerk, many of whom have provided sound tracks to other games of the series. Game controls are designed to make it possible to play traditionally and implement PS Vita characteristic capabilities: front and rear touch controls, motion controls, vocal commands controls used to respectively accelerate, activate weapons and shields, fire weapons, and motion sensors allow tilt controls. Multiplayer gaming is available both via local ad-hoc local and online play, up to 8 players. Online multiplayer is a straight succession of events over which players are left no power of decision except opting for one of two options after a race.
30 trophies, bracketed into bronze, silver, gold, and platinum ones, are obtained by achieving assorted objectives and reward the player in different ways. Ships are assorted in 4 categories: Speed ships are the expedient choice for time trial racing and fastest driving generically. Agility ships suit the Zone mode. Fighters have the strongest bodies together with the most powerful weapons, being the choice for combat events and combat play generically.
As it is habitual for the series, musical tracks are licensed pieces of electronic music composed or performed by groups such as The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Kraftwerk, many of whom have provided sound tracks to other games of the series. Game controls are designed to on the one hand make it possible to play in the traditional manner and on the other one implement PS Vita characteristic capabilities: front and rear touch controls, motion controls, vocal commands controls used to respectively accelerate, activate weapons and shields, fire weapons, motion sensors allow tilt controls.
Multiplayer gaming is available both via local ad-hoc local and online play, up to 8 players. Online multiplayer, which exacts an online pass, is parted into a multiplayer campaign, whose design faithfully iterates that of the single-player one, and Cross-Platform Play, enabling challenges involving players on the PS Vita and on the PS3 on four courses from the PS3 game WipeOut HD . 
