Before last week, I’d never been to New York but, as I wandered its streets and stared at its sights, it certainly felt like I had. New York is a city I’ve visited countless times in video games past. It’s a place I associate with characters like Max Payne, the Ninja Turtles and the Ghostbusters. Years of dreaming and watching and then suddenly, after a relatively short flight, I was there, in glorious, real-world 3D, recognising locations I’d only ever experienced before on the flat screen of a monitor.
In hindsight this transition from video game setting to a place I could actually inhabit made New York the perfect metaphor for the thing that brought me there in the first place. And so, after a quickly swinging by the Ghostbusters building to do a spot of tourism, I popped in to Sony’s PlayStation VR Spring Showcase to try out some of the biggest games that are bound for the system this year.
Blood and Truth
I’ve had my eye on Blood and Truth for a while now, so I’m not sure why I didn’t realise the control scheme was teleport to move only. Not only that, but as it turns out, your character is only able to move to set locations around each level. So, as I hopped forward to the first of many mandatory teleport points during my hands-on demo, my mind flashed back to Bravo Team and I started to feel a little sad.