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by shinymcshine » Thu Oct 20, 2016 11:38 am
Back from PSVR trail in Bristol, and, wow, it was good.
Played the following demos, each around 5-10 mins:
Until Dawn Rush of Blood-
On the rails shooter, decent twin gun control using Move, visuals a bit blurry (resolution rather than focus) and a few jumpy moments. Best part was when people ran up to you, felt like ducking a few times. Rollercoaster motion was fine, but you are still conscious that you arent actually moving. Range of head movement and vision good, but, as someone who doesnt like fairground ghost trains it wasn't really that scary (albeit probably would have screamed if someone touched me during play!)
Battle zone
This was really good, much clearer (probably due to relative simplicity of graphics) and the mech cab was well detailed too.This used the dualshock control, which worked fine. I had a head spinning moment when looking up to target flying things whilst aiming, but overall really enjoyable.
Resident Evil 7
Wandered around a very brown old house as a child being chased by an old woman, no weapons, so just hiding and moving. Used dual shock, albeit this time the right stick jumped in 30° increments rather than moving smoothly (you can also change direction slowly throughhead movement). This took some getting use to. Visuals were detailed,albeit very brown, decent use of candle and lantern lighting. The family meal scene at the end of the demo was the best part of this one.
Weirdly I'm so use to playing games in fixed position (looking ahead) had to remember to look around now & again.
In terms of set up they had the camera mounted on a pole, about 5 ft high to the right of the screen,and you sat in a chair square on to the screen, about 2 ft away (obviously screen is there so the staff can see what's going on). No idea how sensitive the PSVR is to fluctuations in set up (assume what we had was ideal) in terms of how your house is set up, where chair is, effect of ambient light sources etc. A few time I found the VR cable irritating, leaning on it etc,and don't know how long its lead is to connect with PS4.
Asked a few questions about file/install sizes of VR games, no-one really had much of a clue, over them being about the same size as regular games. Asked guy if PSVR would be better with PS4 Pro, he said no .
Overall,much better than I expected, but not sure its worth £450 set up (headset+camera+move controllers+headphones? - Had it been £250 I'd have bought it today) but will be keen if price drops and there's a decent game catalogue too.