Behemoth vr

Skydance’s Behemoth PSVR2 Hands-Off Preview – The promise of virtual reality gaming has been and continues to be a total sense of immersion that makes you feel like you’re stepping into a whole new world with your headset.VR games fulfill that promise to varying degrees, though it looks like a VR game set to arrive on PSVR2 sometime in Fall 2024 is about to achieve new heights of fulfilling that promise in a very literal sense.Skydance’s Behemoth from Skydance Games sets you in the warrior boots of Wren, and as the studio’s vice president of creative Shawn Kittelsen described to me, puts you on a “roller coaster” of a VR experience.I got to speak to Kittelsen and watch a gameplay demo of Skydance’s Behemoth for PSU, and based on what I saw and heard from Shawn, if Skydance’s Behemoth is a roller coaster, then it looks like one ride I won’t want to get off.Skydance’s Behemoth PSVR2 Hands-Off Preview – VR David vs. GoliathKill Things First, Ask Questions LaterIn Skydance’s Behemoth (which I’ll call ‘Behemoth’ for brevity moving forward) you play as Wren, a character that can really be whoever you want them to be. You’ll choose how Wren looks and sounds through various skin tone options for your arms and voice options for any spoken dialogue. But you won’t have any dialogue choices, it’s more about letting you inhabit the world of Behemoth in the way that you want.They’re also canonically not gendered, so you can decide in your head who Wren is. They do have a backstory, and have traveled across a sea to get to the game’s setting, the Forsaken Lands, but I didn’t get to hear much about that in this preview.Story details like that and why these lands are forsaken are being held close to Skydance’s chest for the final game, but Kittelsen did confirm to me that it’s something to do with this curse that Wren is also afflicted by.There’s even a symptom of this curse that manifests as a kind of rot you can find (and climb) throughout the lands. To make these lands no longer forsaken and to save your own people and everyone you love, you’ll need to break the curse, which requires you to kill each Behemoth.While the story will definitely be an important part of your adventure in Behemoth, it’s clear to me even now that it is not meant to be your main focus. Your focus instead will be to chop off some heads, get into intense fights and chiefly to take down absolutely gigantic creatures known as Behemoths. In fact if that’s all you come to Behemoth for, you can ignore the story in the included arena mode, where you’ll simply take down waves and waves of enemies.It would however technically be wrong to wholly disqualify the story from being important before we’ve all seen what it has to offer. But if Behemoth does turn out to have a rich narrative then that’ll simply be a nice

Your influences, that the player could just look at the new game and say “Well, I’m actually just going to play the game this game reminds me of.”Behemoth might fall victim to that a bit, but perhaps the grandiose of VR will be able to stave off those feelings. But again, that’s all my own analysis based on what I saw and heard.My bigger apprehension however comes from a game traversal mechanic I thought I would always love. You get a grapple hook in Behemoth, and can use it to ascend and descend from different levels, zip across two platforms laterally, and you can swing.You can use it to swing yourself to where you’re trying to go, and I don’t know how I’d begin to handle that in VR. I feel like I have my VR sea-legs and I doubt I could do that in game and feel fine.I usually love grapple hooks – they’re the best, and should be in everything – or so I once thought. I’m admittedly not looking forward to trying out that for the first time, but maybe I’ll find away to complete whatever traversal challenge has swinging potential without swinging.You’re Going To Need A Bigger SwordThe core combat with which you’ll mostly spend defeating human enemies, the potential for the story to fall flat, and for the traversal to potentially make me feeling sick aside, Behemoth has to deliver on one major aspect. The Behemoth’s themselves.I only got to see the footage from a boss fight with an early Behemoth, who Kittelsen assures me is on the smaller scale, which even in a hands-off demo I could see would look terrifyingly when in headset.What was spoiled for me but won’t be for you is how this first Behemoth is meant to be taken down, I’d hardly call the facts of taking down a boss a spoiler.Especially because I was watching a form of boss fight that is just easily recognizable to anyone that’s played nearly any video game with a boss-like encounter.Which I felt a tinge of concern about, in the sense that the worst case scenario for a game like this would be that all the Behemoth fights are repetitive. I hope that’s not the case.I really hope each of the Behemoth fights are unique and really interesting. Kittelsen also confirmed to me that there’s a whole lot more human bosses than actual Behemoths, so hopefully they’re just that little bit more special than the rest of the game. If not, it’ll really stand out.For now at least they all promise to be spectacles, and that could likely end up being enough.The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall (Optimistic)“Go big or go home” is an adage I generally agree with, and in the case of Behemoth VR, it certainly seems like Skydance have made the choice to “go big.”At a targeted 90 FPS, and with the experience on PlayStation VR2 described to me as playing the game on the “Ultra” settings preset

Goes wrong along the way… 🚀!Before long, mishaps and mayhem send the team hurtling into deep space on an epic new adventure.Will this be a holiday to remember? Or one they’d rather forget…Step into their world and play your part to find out!What Didn’t Make it in 2023While that’s a solid lineup before the end of the year, two big Quest games that we hoped to see this year won’t be out before the New Year.Image courtesy Skydance InteractiveFirst is the highly anticipated Behemoth from Skydance Interactive, the developer behind the Walking Dead VR games. Original slated for a 2023 release date, the studio recently announced a major delay for the game until 2024. Also coming to PSVR 2 and PC VR.There’s also Bulletstorm VR which was supposed to launch on December 14th, but got a last minute delay until January 18th. It’s also coming to PSVR 2 and PC VR.Image courtesy Rockstar GamesAnd last but not least is GTA: San Andreas VR. Announced way back in 2021, we figured the game would be set for release not later than the launch of Quest 3… but with no release date set, it’s almost certainly not going to land in 2023. And with no recent updates on the game, we might not ever see it.

Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.The Quest version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which was first announced nearly three years ago, is “on hold indefinitely,” Meta confirmed to IGN and in a comment on a YouTube video. “GTA: San Andreas is on hold indefinitely while we both focus on other projects,” the Meta Quest VR account said in response to a comment on a video for Skydance’s Behemoth. “We look forward to working with our friends at Rockstar in the future.”Meta announced the game in October 2021 as part of its Connect conference, saying that it was in development for the Meta Quest 2. “Get a new perspective on Los Santos, San Fierro, and Las Venturas as you experience (again or for the first time) one of gaming’s most iconic open worlds,” Meta wrote in a blog post. “This is a project many years in the making, and we can’t wait to show you more of it.”At the time, Meta and Rockstar Games didn’t share any footage or screenshots of this VR version of San Andreas. Now, it seems like we may never see it at all. Meta and Rockstar didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.