Is Battlezone the Wii Sports breakthrough VR so desperately needs?

Is Battlezone the Wii Sports breakthrough VR so desperately needs?

By Jon Porter

Is Battlezone the Wii Sports breakthrough VR so desperately needs?

Battlezone

It’s no secret that despite both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive now being freely available, there’s still a relative scarcity of decent, lengthy games to play in virtual reality.

Make no mistake, there are an increasing number of good VR games (in fact we’ve got a list of the best VR games available now), but for the most part these are short bite-size games.

What virtual reality needs is its Wii Sports breakthrough hit. It needs a number of small games that perfectly show off what virtual reality is all about, while being infinitely replayable in the process.

In Battlezone (currently a timed launch exclusive for the PS VR, with an Oculus version in the works), virtual reality might have finally found its Wii Sports. The tank-battling game is at its core a series of arcade missions, but they’re wrapped in a mission structure and upgrade path that should mean that it has more replayability than your average arcade shooter.

We sat down with the Battlezone team to play through the game’s campaign mode, where we also got to experience the game’s cooperative mode for the first time.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it

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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

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