While Bethesda has rejigged Doom into a new shape for Doom VFR, the meat and bones of Skyrim VR remain largely unchanged from the six-year-old game. This ultimately means you feel less like a nimble soldier and more like a clunky turret, limply throwing air grenades. Zipping between locations lets you traverse the environment, but you’ll generally be shooting with your feet firmly anchored to the ground.
Its creators have done an impressive job of thinking about how Doom’s space could translate to VR while reducing nausea, but the teleport system sacrifices one of the reboot’s staples: a sense of flow.
It’s fun enough, but I found it hard to imagine playing for more than a handful of minutes. You can even pull off the equivalent of Doom’s Glory Kills by teleporting inside a staggered enemy – exploding them in a shower of entrails. Played with the HTC Vive, this system is helped by allowing the player to spin 360 degrees, aiming with one hand and chucking grenades with the other. Instead of running around the level, the player teleports from point to point, with the action slowed down as they aim for a place to move. Instead of plonking the whole game in VR, a handful of specially chosen environments have been selected and stitched together in a vague narrative about robots. It should, by all accounts, be the absolute worst game to recreate in virtual reality – which tends to work better with slower, room-sized interactions.īethesda gets around this in Doom VFR (the F stands for fucking) by changing the dynamic from the 2016 game. DOOM VFRĭespite its hyperbolically macho, gun-toting appearance, Doom is all about traversing the game’s labyrinthine spaces ricocheting from one brawl to another with all the grace of a dancer. Seeing as the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR all currently lack definitive reasons to invest in a VR headset, there’s been a sizeable amount of interest in whether these meaty titles will make for convincing virtual-reality experiences. At a recent hands-on event, I was able to run through a sample of Skyrim VR and Doom VFR games.
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