My wife just surprised me with a new PSP battery after listening to me moan about not having one ever since reading PerfectDark’s most recent PSP article. After messing around with broken USB cables and jumping through hoops to un-spoof my old prome-2 firmware version for too long last night, I finally got ARK4 running and had a blast playing Wipeout Pure.
My favourite PSP game back in the day was probably Monster Hunter Freedom Unite… so many late nights spent playing that with friends in my freezing flat. There was something special about LAN parties with handheld games. I remember putting serious hours into Peace Walker and Dissidia too.
Now I want some game recommendations… tell me which games you loved on the PSP! I might even have a look around for some UMDs!
I think most online say Pure is better. I liked Pulse more and played a lot more of this. They’re very similar and if you like the Wipeout formula then you won’t be disappointed either way. They do feel a bit different and I forget the specifics. I think Pure had a “drift” type feel to the driving that Pulse didn’t.
Pure is my first Wipeout (I grew up in an F-Zero X household). I was surprised to find how much like Mario Kart it feels rather than F-Zero though with the weapons and drifting.