Yautja_Warrior
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So I've been in Birmingham at the NEC all day for Eurogamers EGX and while playing and checking out some great upcoming games (Horizon on PS4 Pro looks fantastic) I also finally got some hands on with PSVR and came away very happy with the experience.
I've already played Vive, which was really good and I have to say the PSVR was of very similar quality. The screen door effect is minimal, the graphics look good with no performance problems and while it is a lower resolution than Vive or Rift, its still all very good tbh. I played BattleZone, Tethered and Windlands.
BattleZone was great, easy to control and fun to play. The demo was around 10 minutes and had one level where you have to fight off Tanks, Turrets and Drone type enemies, which keeps you looking all around to see where they are coming from.
Tethered was a God Sim / Strategy game, where you had to look after little animal like followers, making them gather resources by looking at a follower, holding X, looking at an objective and releaseing X to make them carry out an action, like cutting trees for wood or farming. You can control elements like rain and sun too, which can help your followers. Some of the people from Evolution (DriveClub) are involved with this and it was a neat little game.
Windlands was a surprise, seen a demo on the internet quite a while ago on PC but I didn't realise it was coming to PSVR too. Basically a first person platforming game where you have 2 grapple hooks, one for each hand (L2, R2) and you can swing around in the trees to navigate the world and over big gaps where you can't make a normal jump. It was a fun game, the controls are very floaty but swinging around and falling from high up made a few people feel a bit sick, I felt a little weird myself after playing for a while but it wasn't too bad so not a major issue for me anyway.
While I didn't get to play anything else, I did see Rigs, VR Worlds, DriveClub VR, Robinson and FarPoint in action and they all looked great too.
The headset is light, easy to put on and adjust and very comfortable to wear, quite a few people made comments that it was better than Rift and Vive in that department and I would definitely agree, especially as someone who wears glasses.
PSVR is shaping up to be an excellent VR solution for console gamers and the games are looking very solid. I'm looking forward to getting my PSVR on launch, great stuff.
I've already played Vive, which was really good and I have to say the PSVR was of very similar quality. The screen door effect is minimal, the graphics look good with no performance problems and while it is a lower resolution than Vive or Rift, its still all very good tbh. I played BattleZone, Tethered and Windlands.
BattleZone was great, easy to control and fun to play. The demo was around 10 minutes and had one level where you have to fight off Tanks, Turrets and Drone type enemies, which keeps you looking all around to see where they are coming from.
Tethered was a God Sim / Strategy game, where you had to look after little animal like followers, making them gather resources by looking at a follower, holding X, looking at an objective and releaseing X to make them carry out an action, like cutting trees for wood or farming. You can control elements like rain and sun too, which can help your followers. Some of the people from Evolution (DriveClub) are involved with this and it was a neat little game.
Windlands was a surprise, seen a demo on the internet quite a while ago on PC but I didn't realise it was coming to PSVR too. Basically a first person platforming game where you have 2 grapple hooks, one for each hand (L2, R2) and you can swing around in the trees to navigate the world and over big gaps where you can't make a normal jump. It was a fun game, the controls are very floaty but swinging around and falling from high up made a few people feel a bit sick, I felt a little weird myself after playing for a while but it wasn't too bad so not a major issue for me anyway.
While I didn't get to play anything else, I did see Rigs, VR Worlds, DriveClub VR, Robinson and FarPoint in action and they all looked great too.
The headset is light, easy to put on and adjust and very comfortable to wear, quite a few people made comments that it was better than Rift and Vive in that department and I would definitely agree, especially as someone who wears glasses.
PSVR is shaping up to be an excellent VR solution for console gamers and the games are looking very solid. I'm looking forward to getting my PSVR on launch, great stuff.