WipEout 2048 Ships

[Xpand]

Honestly the most reasonable explanation for the "gear shifting" sound would be if some component of the ship that used the jet engine needed a constant rotation speed so you'd have to gear down the engine's RPMs to keep that rotation speed. Even so it doesn't explain the engine itself reducing the power ouput as you can tell by the noise. There's no way around the fact that if you use any kind of engine that uses air flow to move the ship you never ever want to have gear shifting, you want the engine working at max RPM for full thrust.

It makes even less sense if the engines being used have no moving parts like pulse-jet engines or Ramjet.

Not trying to be a buzzkill or anything, just saying that compared to all of the other WO games, Wo2048's ship sound design makes no technical sense, only artistic sense.