Sony's very own London Studio has been a huge supporter of PlayStation VR since it was announced, so it's hardly a surprise that it's got an exclusive game in the works. In truth, you'll have seen portions of PlayStation VR Worlds before: an ambitious compilation fusing five different and unique virtual reality experiences into a single game.
Packaged titles include The London Heist, which sees you embroiled in a seedy gangster story, and Into the Deep, an underwater rollercoaster whereby you'll be surrounded by all kinds of marine life. The package will also comprise VR Luge, an arcade game where you'll slide down a busy highway, and Danger Ball, a virtual reality spin on Pong, it seems.
Finally, you'll get Scavenger's Oddysee, a sci-fi adventure which will see you travelling through space, pummelling extra-terrestrials from the cockpit of a spacecraft. It sounds like a bit of a mishmash, in truth – but we suppose that this will be a perfect pick up for those who just want to get a feel for what the futuristic headset can do.
[source blog.us.playstation.com]
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Ideal for roadshows, which I still hope will happen.
@finalstan
They'd be foolish not to! I remember vividly my first time being in Europe and going to some sort of county fair where a Nintendo roadshow was present showing of games like Megaman and Castlevania. Every 5-18 y.o. there couldn't give 2 ducks about the food, the other stands or the bigher attractions; we all waited in line to play 10 minutes on a Nintendo, just to get back in line right after. When we got home we couldn't stop talking about it and we didn't stop bugging our parents about it till they finally gave us one for "Sinterklaas" (the OG Santa Clause).
Roadshows aren't cheap and seem really outdated, which is somewhat true, but to show off the capabilities of your VR headset there's no better alternative. I've had the privilege to try PS VR more than once and I honestly believe that seeing is believing. And it's not just the VR experience alone which will stun people; the headset itself seems like this awesome mix of a Tron and Star Trek contraption and is ergonomically far superior to the rest. I am sure that if you let 10 "maybes" try it on, 7 will go out and buy one immediately afterwards.
I was lucky enough to try one at an electronics show myself. The consumer ready quality of it at the time was something only Sony could pull off. It just looked and felt good, like most Sony hardware does. It is nearly impossible to explain to people how different and awesome the experience is, it has to be tried. Hopefully local game stores will let ha email them set up for demo.
Cylons will kill us all...
This is a good idea, ideal for showing friends what VR is capable of and potentially generating sales that way. I was hoping we'd get some form of that underwater demo we'd seen, so that and the heist sell this package for me
Looks great. Would be a perfect launch title. All of the 'VR Worlds' seems like great fun.
I hoped London Hesit would have been a full game and the successor to The Getaway. Seems like a missed opportunity.
This remind me of Wii Sports: "Hey guys, look at this! Innovation!" And one month later everyone were complaining about those f*****g motion controls...
Looks interesting enough. I suspect this will be apart of the confirmed PS Camera/Move bundle, which will probably be $499.99 USD.
@andreoni79 lol, I really hope this doesn't turn out like motion controls and Sony aren't too heavily invested if it does.
If so I can see myself going back to wherever "traditional" games are like NX (maybe), X1, PC...
@Dodoo Being PS Move optional and the entire bundle quite expensive I'm sure it will be a niche thing that won't hurt the PS4 library in any way, as what happened with the Kinect games series on 360.
The day I'll see VR running Alien Isolation 2, Fallout 5 or Dying Light 2 than I'll change my mind.
@andreoni79 I hope you're right but the last few years of the 360 were bare for first party games as MS were focusing on Kinect. Hope that doesn't happen with this!
What I still have to understand is this: can PS VR run any future game with a dedicated option or must a game be developed specifically for it?
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