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Each encounter though is designed to be bested with whatever is at hand, and hammers, bottles, throwing stars and pool balls are put to as much us as the firepower.

Superhot vr review full#

Through one fluke shot I actually managed to lob a shotgun from a catwalk on a ship, teleport to the next encounter with someone trying to fill me full of holes at close range, to see the shotgun fly into the frame and take him down. By knowing where you’re going to teleport to for your next encounter it is entirely possible to give yourself an advantage by slinging a weapon in the direction you will be. Die at any point – and it’s a one hit kill – then you start the whole thing again. Tackling the lack of controller movement and the chance for motion sickness, each stage is broken up into discrete sections so that you deal with the danger at hand then get a reprieve as you jump to a new location in the environment. Contortionists are going to be the masters of this game. Regardless of the state of you in your living room, it feels exhilarating to have streams of rounds whizz past your ears or just over your head… and when you manage to dodge a full shotgun blast at close range you know you’ve got the reflexes down. With the headset on you end up feeling like you’re picking your way through a devious laser maze as you duck, bend and sidestep incoming bullets, whilst in reality I’m pretty sure I looked like I was drunk in slow motion. Hand-to-hand combat is crucial and smartly comes with the ability to take weapons out of the hands of close proximity enemies, but it’s the bullet dodging that really comes in to its own here.

Superhot vr review how to#

Time still only moves when you do, so keeping still is the first thing you learn, closely followed by how to slowly guide your self around the immediate area whilst scanning for the best way to take down the red dudes. Using the premise from SUPERHOT, SUPERHOT VR is set in the same world as the first – accessing the simulation via an in-game early 90’s computer, only this time you are controlling everything with your body and the move controllers. Get ready to step into a whole new FPS world. Within minutes it’ll have you thinking you’re Neo from The Matrix, and probably working up a sweat whilst you’re at it. This feels so right from the point you enter the first scenario and keeps surprising and innovating all the way to the end. You’d think then that this would simply be the same levels with a slight makeover to compensate for not having a gamepad or keyboard/mouse combo to hand, and you’d be wrong.

SUPERHOT VR is the logical and totally obvious companion given that the story is all about using a VR simulation to train you to fight the system. It’s VR within VR… that’s all you need to know if you’re at all familiar with the original game.