It was fun to quickly turn each time I heard eerie screams or enemies creeping up on me in the background or occasionally having to physically duck to avoid falling beams and leaning pillars. While the on-rails nature of its action naturally limits where you can go, you are able to move your head to look around in any direction in VR.
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Read the full Until Dawn: Rush of Blood Review.īut what it lacks in story, Switchback VR mostly makes up for in gameplay. Coupled with its smooth, motion-based controls, and barring some of its weaker stages, Rush of Blood actually makes for a decently fun ride. Responsive, arcade-style shooting, the frequency of collectibles, optional side passages that add some sense of exploration to the linear rollercoaster, and an end-of-level letter grade system offer plenty of casual replayability. It’s a fantastic use of the technology and deliciously menacing, but it’s over in under a minute and never comes back, which feels like a waste.Even as a mere horror-flavored rail shooter lacking in any serious scares, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood isn’t terrible. One room has you fighting mannequins that attack like Dr Who’s Weeping Angels: every time the headset detects an eye blink, they instantaneously teleport a few steps closer.
They’re often slightly hidden and tend to come in rapid succession, making them fun and lightly taxing to try and hit, unlike the zombies themselves who tend to be inveterate bullet sponges.Īnd while there are interesting ideas, they’re often left bafflingly on the shelf. Some of the more interesting targets are marked in orange and act as score multipliers. The best bits are when you’re clipping along on the coaster with plenty to shoot at – and not necessarily just monsters. Plenty of times your guns also disappear, letting you know that something’s about to leap out, but also that it can’t possibly harm you because you’re unarmed, making those by far the least interesting parts of the game. You’ll come across sections where nothing attacks and you’re just noodling along with nothing to do, when suddenly the lights go out. Unfortunately, that also means there are times when the game’s desire to set up jump scares makes it feel a bit flat. Things jumps out at you and zombies pop up on both sides of your car simultaneously, but they can only ever startle you the first time you play, and even then possibly not as much as intended.
That’s because although Switchback is a decent lightgun style shooter, it isn’t particularly scary. They’re also used to set up the game’s spookier moments, which is where you’ll start noticing Supermassive’s reach slightly exceeding its grasp. Those moments mix up the pace, and let assailants come to you. Not that you always will be, though, since the game drops in plenty of moments where you come to a halt, the familiar hydraulic chuff of rollercoaster brakes recreated perfectly in Sony’s 3D audio. The experience is heightened by the Sense controllers’ haptics, which do a good job of conveying the sensation of grinding along metal tracks when you’re rolling along. We don’t tend to suffer motion sickness in VR, so it’s hard to say whether this would be problematic for you, but if you’re okay with driving games like Gran Turismo 7 you should be fine with this. Switchback creates an impressive sense of motion, but never goes crazy with big drops and rarely goes all that quickly.
Switchback is clearly intended as the next gen equivalent, as once again you’ll be donning your headset to partake in a demonic roller coaster ride in which you dual wield guns to blast away zombies, monsters, vampire bats, and numerous bonus targets.
The original has gone on to spawn not just the recent The Quarry, but the whole of the The Dark Pictures Anthology series, which already includes four games and has at least four more on the way.īefore the split from Sony, Supermassive produced a couple of VR spin-offs for Until Dawn, most notably launch title Rush Of Blood, which was much more of a straight action game than the other titles.
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Until Dawn was an unexpected hit for Sony, back in 2015, but while there was eventually a falling out with developer Supermassive Games the spirit of the game, and its modern take on the interactive movie concept, lives on. The creators of Until Dawn and The Quarry release their first PSVR2 game, with another homage to classic 90s lightgun games. The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR – not as scary as it thinks (pic: Supermassive Games)
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