By Jon Porter
Serious Sam has always been a series that happily thumbs its nose at the more serious sensibilities of the first-person shooter genre.
While Half-Life and BioShock were crafting increasingly realistic stories around their shooting mechanics, Serious Sam was more concerned with making its guns bigger, and its enemies increasingly ridiculous.
But no accessory more fully displays the Serious Sam philosophy than its latest abomination, a minigun designed to work with Serious Sam VR on the HTC Vive. And we got to give it a twirl.
A DIY monster
The team were quick to point out that the minigun is meant as a prototype design only, and that they currently don’t know if it will ever see a full release.
But despite this the gun itself looks and feels well-made.
At the centre of what makes the gun work is a single HTC Vive controller that’s working with the software to place the gun in the virtual space.
You don’t actually hold the controller itself though. Instead you have your right hand on a joystick, which has been jerry-rigged to work as the controller’s trigger.
This same trigger is also attached to a drill, which allows …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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