Nick Burcombe, co-creator of WipEout, has teased something to do with the franchise but has made it clear it’s not a game.
Soon, maybe just 4-5 weeks (Covid dependent)…I'll be able to share something very special with you….it's not Gamedev related before you get over-excited, but it IS Wipeout related. Can't wait to share it with you all. You've seen nothing like this….wow factor 11/10
— Nick Burcombe (@nburcombe) September 4, 2020
He’s also confirmed it’s not the WipEout book that was mentioned a while back, adding that is “way cooler” than that. So, not a game, not a book, the complete selection of WipEout music tracks is already out on Spotify so it probably is not tune related, which leaves us wondering what it could be. Perhaps a documentary on the series, those sort of things pop up now and then so that’s a possibility, or if we are really thinking big, what about an animated show on Netflix?
Although there’s no plot as such to the game it does have plenty of elements that lend itself to storytelling, the WipEout competition would make a great hero journey. Set in the year 2052, the hero would compete in the F3600 anti-gravity racing league, signing up for the Feisar team and battling against Auricon, Qirex, and AG Systems. Sounds a great idea but sadly, no it’s not that either, boo! In a later Tweet, responding to the idea of a Netflix show Nick tweeted “That’s so wildly ambitious that I’m worried you’ll be disappointed.”
My money is on a documentary of some sort, of maybe an art print from the game. Nick does say the announcement is “Covid dependent” and will be revealed in 4-5 weeks.
The last time we saw WipEout on PlayStation was with the release of the Wipeout Omega Collection which remastered the old games for PS4 and PSVR. It scored 9/10 in our review.
Wipeout Omega Collection pulls together some of the series’ most recent highlights and uses the power of the PlayStation 4 Pro to keep the franchise on the technological bleeding edge – and it does so in spectacular fashion. This feels like far more than a tentative step towards a fully-fledged new entry, proving that as long as there’s PlayStation, there should be Wipeout.
Source: Twitter
