Pacer (formely known as Formula Fusion) is an anti-gravity racing game which pits your racing pedigree up against the rest of the world. Tackle the single player campaign and become the best pilot against the AI over leagues and championships, or play against the world in multiplayer and compete in a sports league where you can take either yourself or your team to the top step.
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PACER is a game about unfulfilled potential. When it comes to AG Racers, it's really about as big as it comes - beautiful visuals, over a dozen tracks with night / day variations, ship customization, a lot of gamemodes including a career, and a massive OST of more than 80 songs featuring new songs from the original WipEout's composer CoLD SToRAGE.
The unfortunate reality though, is that it just doesn't come together nicely. The controls and physics are far too twitchy, the track design is inconsistent, the weird item pickup system does more harm than good, and just an overall lack of polish make it difficult to appreciate at times.
It's hard to ignore the elephant in the room, which is that PACER is in reality "just" a huge patch of Formula Fusion (which was not the strongest of bases to start with) with a new direction, and that's where its issues with consistency arise from.
Still, if you like WipEout it's a game that's still worth a playthrough of. It's the closest an AG Racer has come to the production values of WipEout HD, and even if it can't get close to it, it's nice to play a game in this genre that feels like it had a bit of budget put into it.
The unfortunate reality though, is that it just doesn't come together nicely. The controls and physics are far too twitchy, the track design is inconsistent, the weird item pickup system does more harm than good, and just an overall lack of polish make it difficult to appreciate at times.
It's hard to ignore the elephant in the room, which is that PACER is in reality "just" a huge patch of Formula Fusion (which was not the strongest of bases to start with) with a new direction, and that's where its issues with consistency arise from.
Still, if you like WipEout it's a game that's still worth a playthrough of. It's the closest an AG Racer has come to the production values of WipEout HD, and even if it can't get close to it, it's nice to play a game in this genre that feels like it had a bit of budget put into it.
More fast paced than the Wipeout games, but it's incredibly easy to handle even on highest speeds. The newer wipeout games are much more difficult even when slower.