Every stat imaginable is recorded and saved to your profile, which can then be uploaded to the official WipEout website, giving anyone a comprehensive breakdown of everything from your racing style to your favourite weapons and ships. Impressively, Pulse has gone all-out to create a thriving community, with online and Wi-Fi play, the option to save and exchange races set up in the Racing Box mode, downloadable ship skins that you design yourself at the website, and new downloadable tracks and ships both at launch and post-launch. Whether gamers who own a PS3 as well as a PSP will ignore this in favour of downloading WipEout HD from the PS Store is debatable. If you’re still PS3-less, then Pulse is everything you’d expect from an awesome WipEout game - we can’t recommend it highly enough.

Dec 4, 2007