![]() And there are dozens of indies, many of them not more than $20. The new music-rhythm game Beat Saber requires PS Move controllers, but has been a VR standout on other platforms all year. Other games to consider: Sony's VR-enabled Wipeout racing game remaster is excellent, as is Moss (mentioned above, in case your bundle doesn't include the game: it's an adorable puzzle-solving adventure starring a little mouse). ![]() You can play the game with a regular DualShock 4 controller, too, but it's not quite as immersive. The Aim controller is a year old, but feels more purpose-built for Sony's VR hardware than the old but compatible glowing Move wands. It works better than I ever expected it would, and if you're hungry for a home gaming arcade setup that could easily be at home in a Dave & Buster's, this is it. Using just the Aim controller, you can do all the things a PS4 controller can, plus aiming and shooting. Firewall: Zero Hour has the bones of an online Call of Duty-like game. ![]() And yet, I appreciate what Aim and the compatible games it works with can do to create a weirdly real home-arcade feeling. I'm not a shooter-game person, and I probably never will be. Joseph Kaminiski and Dan Ackerman talked me into it, just to play Firewall: Zero Hour. ( Read Gamespot's review.)įirewall: Zero Hour: I never owned a PlayStation Aim controller, a $60 light gun accessory for PSVR. It's a game worth playing in VR, as long as you can dedicate a bit of meditative time to it without interruption. If you've ever played Rez, or Lumines, expect something similar here. It's a PS4 exclusive game right now, but is also designed to make the most of the PSVR via immersive animated environments that, as game-generated beats unfold, throb and transform. It's "just" Tetris, but the addition of new modes, musically and visually interlinked landscapes, and incredible art direction add up to a hypnotically relaxing sensory-bubble experience that feels meditative. The game, directed by game design legend Tetsua Mizuguchi (the mind behind Lumines and Rez), has earned a lot of praise and hype. Does the idea of musically emergent meditative waves of Tetris appeal to you in 2018? Maybe not initially. Tetris Effect: It's Tetris meets a synaesthetic rave.
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