Wipeout Pure marks a rather impressive recommitment by Sony to revitalize its flagging futuristic racing series. Having peaked fairly early in the original PlayStation life cycle with the seminal Wipeout XL, the series never really found its footing again. Sony couldn't even be bothered to publish the last Wipeout game in the US. It seems, though, that Studio Liverpool has put the three years since Wipeout Fusion was released to good use, and the series is back in top form with Wipeout Pure. The name says it all--Wipeout Pure is a distillation of all the Wipeouts that precede it, highlighting the traits that earned the series its fan base and straining out the impurities that have crept in over the years.