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. Antigravity racing run by pilots driving racers that hover over the ground is at its outset, in New York City. WipeOut 2048 is a futuristic racing game, part of the launch software for the Playstation Vita, whose temporal setting places it in the beginning of the WipeOut chronology. Success is achieved by both eliminating the rival drivers and preceding them to the goal, the gameplay essentially consisting in both ultra-speed racing (displayed at 30 frames per second) and using weapons against the other racers. Tracks are wider, having been planned to simplify a gaming behaviour focusing on attacking the opponents. 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 they 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, succeeding requires a bellicose play. The player has 30 trophies, bracketed into bronze silver gold and platinum ones, are obtained by achieving assorted objectives and reward the player in different ways.
Racetracks are 10 in total, some of which ported from WipeOut HD . Racing vehicles a total of 20. Some of them are prototypes, experimental racers obtained by success in prototype events. Musical tracks are licensed pieces of electronic, techno dance, dubstep music composed or performed by groups such as The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Kraftwerk, many of whom have all 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 are used to respectively accelerate, activate weapons and shields, fire weapons, motion sensors allow tilt controls, meaning that steering is possible by rotating the device on an axis perpendicular to the plan of the screen and passing on the centre of it. 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 . Another Cross-Play feature is that who already owns PS3 WipeOut HD and WipEout HD: Fury will be gifted with free download of the games on their availability as DLC for the PS Vita. 
