
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)
