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Rubix wrote:My VR yearns for this game

SugarDave wrote:I think people excited for the VR content should probably temper their expectations as it appears to just be a handful of bonus missions rather than integrated into the main story mode. It'll still be cool to experience though, I'm sure.

Peter Crisp wrote:Ah, the good old days of game companies using massive, mostly empty boxes to dominate shop shelves :wub: .

Screw the planet I want a game box I barely fit in a carrier bag and an instruction manual about an F-16 so complicated I have to finish degree in engineering to have a hope of understanding it as that's real value :D .

Rubix wrote:Any more clips showing VR?

HSH28 wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:Ah, the good old days of game companies using massive, mostly empty boxes to dominate shop shelves .

Screw the planet I want a game box I barely fit in a carrier bag and an instruction manual about an F-16 so complicated I have to finish degree in engineering to have a hope of understanding it as that's real value .

I had a couple of those on Amiga.

The PS4 version has an ace up its sleeve – yes, I went there – and that’s the PSVR mode with a bespoke storyline and set of missions. If you’re lucky enough to have Sony’s VR headset you’re able to jump into the cockpit of an F-16 and physically become a top gun pilot. That is, if you’re not prone to motion sickness. Ace Combat 7 in VR looks incredible, sticking you in a realistic cockpit and allowing you to read the situation by being able to look in every direction (every single time I did this I heard Tom Cruise shouting “I can’t see him, I can’t see him”), but its utterly lacking in comfort options and that really hampered the experience for me.

Project Aces obviously feel like they’ve made the best possible Ace Combat VR experience, but it feels as though if you can’t handle the speed of the turns then they’ve not been willing to sacrifice any of the series’ trademark action. They’ve done their best to give you distinct items to lock onto, with directional markers helping you find the enemy, and the cockpit doing a good job of enveloping you in a solid location, but, in my case at least, it simply wasn’t enough.

The motion feels especially strong in Ace Combat 7, stomach-lurchingly so, and after one mission my head was swimming and my body was doing a decent job of providing the pool. It’s a massive shame, as PSVR support is likely to be a big selling point for a lot of people, but they’re going to have to be prepared that they may not be able to handle it. At five missions it’s much bigger than something like Battlefront 2’s X-Wing VR experience, and fans will lap up the return of Ace Combat legend Mobius, but that might only be making things worse if your stronger-stomached friends are having fun with it.