Come October, Sony's PlayStation VR will hit the shops for the princely sum of $399/£349/€399. That's far cheaper than the likes of the Oculus and the Vive, even when you take into account the price of PlayStation Camera (£39, $44), and Move Controllers (£24, $28 each) that aren't included. But while the hardware is attractive, what matters most is what games you can play on it—and Sony's got some honest-to-goodness proper games in the launch lineup.
While over 50 games are promised for the two months between launch and December of this year—CCP's Eve Valkyrie is pencilled in for launch day—Sony's tapped its in-house studios to make sure five of them are ready for when players get the PSVR home. While Sony hasn't confirmed it, I suspect that the first—PlayStation VR Worlds—will get bundled in with the headset at some point. PlayStation VR Worlds is a collection of five mini-games developed by Sony's London Studio—the same studio behind the likes of Eyepet, SingStar, and Wonderbook—many of which have been used to demo the PSVR at its various public outings.
PlayStation VR Worlds.
The first of the minigames is The London Heist, a homage to the classic PlayStation 2 game The Getaway, and uses dual PS Move Controllers, or a DualShock 4 controller to simulate a robbery, complete with a suitably explosive car chase escape. Into The Deep sees players take on the role of a deep sea diver who (in what sounds like my own personal nightmare) encounters marine life small and large. VR Luge is, as it sounds, a game about rolling down a hill like a nutter atop a luge. Danger Ball sees players using their heads to strike and spin the ball, while Scavenger's Odyssey is a sci-fi adventure where players take on the role of an alien treasure hunter.
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