There's a nice little nod there, if you're of an age to feel a rush of nostalgia when listening to Autechre, to the F1 feeder class that used to pound the streets of Birmingham through the late 80s, and the SuperPrix circuit feels like it'd slot nicely into Pacer somewhere. You're running ship to ship at speeds in excess of 1000kph, working up to the near-impossible-to-handle elite class from the starting ranks of the F3000 class.
So yes, Pacer feels familiar, which is no bad thing at all. Pacer leans into the golden age of Sony's series, recruiting The Designers Republic and Warp Records, two names as synonymous with the bleep scene of the 90s as WipEout itself. As it has every right to, seeing as some of the original team behind its development, back when it was still known as Formula Fusion before its 2019 rebranding, worked on WipEout 3.
Fast, slick but with a few too many flaws, Pacer is nevertheless a fine futuristic racer.
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