Originally released on PC last year, The Last Clockwinder wrings an impressive amount of mileage from a deceptively simple seeming mechanic that allows you to direct the movements of a virtual robot production line by ‘recording’ a couple of seconds of your real hand movements. The gameplay is as tried and tested as it comes (albeit with a few new moves, such as the time-stopping ‘Zone’ mechanic), but Mizuguchi’s typically seamless integration of dynamic musical scores and psychedelic visuals makes for a truly mesmeric experience.ĭevelopers Monstars, Resonair, Stage Games Publisher Enhance Games Age rating PEGI 3 RRP £32.99 The Last Clockwinder The addition of eye-tracked targeting is the icing on the cake, removing another layer of interactive friction to create one of the most immersive gaming experiences available in any medium.ĭevelopers United Game Artists Publisher Enhance Games Age rating PEGI 7 RRP £24.99Īnother trademark Tetsuya Mizuguchi jam, Tetris Effect Connected transforms the evergreen gaming phenomenon into an hypnotic, son et lumiere spectacle. Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s attempt at achieving synesthesia via the medium of a mind-melting on-rails shooter really pops on the new platform, its trippy visuals and trancy soundtrack elevated by the more powerful technology into something truly transcendental. One of the original PSVR’s best titles is also one of its successor’s. There are obvious gameplay nods to Octodad: The Dadliest Catch and Job Simulator here, but Tentacular boasts an utterly winning charm all of its own.ĭevelopers Firepunchhd Games Publisher Devolver Digital Age rating PEGI 7 RRP £19.99 Rez Infinite Despite offering both racing and free roam modes, there isn’t a huge amount of depth here, but boy is that surface experience impressive.ĭevelopers Better Than Life Publisher Better Than Life Age rating PEGI 3 RRP £18.99 TentacularĮmbracing the unique body transformation potential of VR with both, erm, appendages, this delightfully quirky game invites you to solve a steady stream of ever more inventive physics-based puzzles with the pair of comically imprecise tentacles that pass for your character’s arms. With near-photo realistic scenery, lifelike lighting routines, and immersive physics feedback mechanics, Kayak VR Mirage offers all the joy of padding expeditions to Australia or Costa Rica with none of the sogginess (or, indeed, airfares). Indie outfit Better Than Life’s canoeing sim lives up to their studio name. Incredible.ĭevelopers Polyphony Digital Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment Age rating PEGI 3 RRP £69.99 Kayak VR Mirage Start a race, however, and it’s a completely different story, GT’s gorgeous graphics engine, pixel-perfect car interiors, and authentic 3D sound working in unison to convince your brain it isn’t sat in a front room with an expensive toy on your head, but rather behind the wheel of several hundred horsepower of prime muscle car. After installing you might initially feel underwhelmed, given most of the menus and car shops are viewed in the headset’s theatre mode. Running Call of the Mountain an extremely close second is the free PSVR2 update for last year’s well-received racing sim Gran Turismo. Read our full review to find out more.ĭevelopers Guerrilla Games, Firesprite Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment Age rating PEGI 12 RRP £59.99 Horizon Call of the Mountainīy far the best looking game on the platform, this standalone adventure set within Sony’s ever expanding Horizon universe is the current benchmark for demonstrating the power and potential of PSVR2. So whether you’re after immersive new gaming experiences, or merely looking to show off your fancy new tech to your friends (and justify that not inconsiderate outlay…) here are Telegraph Gaming’s pick of the PSVR2 games released so far. That’s not to say there isn’t gold to be found and fun to be had in the launch line-up, mind. It goes without saying Sony would sell considerably more PSVR2s if they tasked their other top tier studios Naughty Dog and Insomniac Games to create The Last of Us and Spider-Man titles, and then threw the rest of their budget at Valve to port PC VR smash Half-Life: Alyx to the platform. The not-so-good news is that bespoke blockbuster experiences like Horizon Call of the Mountain are the exception rather than the norm, and the bulk of that catalogue comprises ports of titles originally released for much less powerful machines. The good news is that with over 30 titles available to play from day one, PSVR2 certainly doesn’t lack for software support.
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