Even Wipeout 2048 had zombies

We just can't seem to outrun zombies. The undead have run amok in movies, television shows, and games. But who would've imagined they would end up infecting the futuristic Wipeout series?

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We just can't seem to outrun zombies. The undead have run amok in movies, television shows, and games. But who would've imagined they would end up infecting the futuristic Wipeout series?

No, Wipeout 2048 won't come with a Carmageddon-inspired zombie mode where you run over zombies. Instead, game director Stuart Tilley describes an axed game mode where people haven't been zombified--the cars have. "These are 1000mph steel and carbon fibre machines of menacing evil, and they want you dead," he described.

ZOMBIE was a new survival mode crafted for the upcoming Vita game, where players must race against an ongoing onslaught of enhanced zombie ships. "You can pick up Cannons and the occasional (but very rare) Quake to defend yourself, but it’s only going to delay the inevitable – you will die," Tilley described on the PlayStation.Blog.

But don't expect this mode to come with 2048. "Almost every game has at least one cool feature that sadly finds its way to the cutting room floor, and WipEout 2048 is no exception," Tilley admitted. So, if it's not coming with the game, why bother telling fans about it? Because it's pretty obvious that it's coming as DLC. "Like a real-life Zombie, ZOMBIE mode is dead, but it’s not completely dead," he teased with a smiley-face.

Wipeout 2048 will be available during the Vita launch in the US.

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    December 30, 2011 9:00 AM

    Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Even Wipeout 2048 had zombies.

    We just can't seem to outrun zombies. The undead have run amok in movies, television shows, and games. But who would've imagined they would end up infecting the futuristic Wipeout series?

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      December 30, 2011 9:13 AM

      Terrible

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      December 30, 2011 9:21 AM

      That sounds great based on the description in the article!

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      December 30, 2011 9:29 AM

      "Like a real-life Zombie, ZOMBIE mode is dead, but it’s not completely dead, its only mostly dead" he teased with a smiley-face

      Fixed their obviously blatant lack at a perfectly good meme reference

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      December 30, 2011 10:24 AM

      Wipeout needs to come to the PC. I'm getting tired of seeing such amazing designs look like poop on consoles.

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        December 30, 2011 2:50 PM

        You haven't seen Wipeout HD, have you?

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          December 30, 2011 2:53 PM

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          December 31, 2011 12:14 PM

          Yeah, I own it. The PC could have anti-aliasing, higher texture resolution, and way more eye-candy like high-quality blur, reflections, physics and explosions - in theory it would look incredible :)

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        December 30, 2011 2:53 PM

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      December 30, 2011 3:06 PM

      "No, Wipeout 2048 won't come with a Carmageddon-inspired zombie mode where you run over zombies." BOOOOOOOOOO - wheres my new Carmagaddeon goddamnit!

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