Sony announces new Playstation VR 2 games

Image: Sony

In addition to the price and date for Playstation VR 2, Sony has also presented some exciting games for the new VR glasses.

More than 20 VR games should be available at the start of the Playstation 2. Some already confirmed PSVR2 highlights we have already presented in more detail.

In the Announcement of price and date the new VR glasses Sony also revealed some new PSVR2 games. They will all only appear after the launch of the VR headset, exact dates have not yet been set. Some of the newly announced titles should provide excitement with their horror or mystery focus.

New PSVR 2 games

The Dark Pictures: Switchback

The Dark Pictures: Switchback could turn out to be a real fan favorite. Supermassive Games was already involved in the launch of Sony’s first VR glasses Until Dawn: Rush of Blood an amazingly spooky horror game to the lineup. Since then, early PSVR fans have been raving about the unrivaled nasty moments of shock, where the undead, killer clowns and hanging pig halves terrorized the passengers.

The Dark Pictures: Switchback takes the same line and already confronts interested parties with all sorts of things in the trailer eerily beautiful disfigured creatures. You should be on the PlayStation VR 2 of course look a whole lot nicer. As the name suggests, get here naturally Characters and scenarios from the Dark Pictures Anthology games her appearance.

Along the way, players must survive the terrifying ghost ship, face demonic incarnations of haunted 17th-century New England “witches” and battle supernatural desert vampires. Finally, they flee the World’s Fair Hotel on wheels from a sadistic serial killer.

The haptic feedback makes curves and vibrations noticeable, the adaptive triggers snap into a different position for each weapon – to match the barrel. If the evasive maneuver in front of the collapsing beam is not successful, the rumble effect of the headset takes care of it blows to the head.

The use of eye tracking sounds even meaner: some Enemies only move when you blink! The spatial audio capabilities of the PS VR 2 should also make the journey through various junctions more frightening.

The Light Brigade

Funktronic Labs’ roguelike shooter The Light Brigade has it too Potential for lots of sinister atmosphere on the PSVR 2. Even that inspirational VR game Fujii by the same team was a feast for the senses. With its creative ideas, it was not so easy to put it in a genre drawer in the review.

The Light Brigade also seems mysterious, can be with his Roguelike action but classify better. In a world riddled with rubble, you become the last line of defense against darkness. As part of the Light Brigade, you travel to the generated battlefields of the sunken world again and again.

On the strategic path over icy cemeteries in the densely forested mountains, the opponents get to feel your bullets and light magic. As you level up, you unlock new ones spells and weapons free. According to Sony, the latter benefit from physics-based shooting mechanics.

Rescued fellow combatants help to expand the temple headquarters and unlock new shops and classes.

The Light Brigade will be a cross-buy title for PlayStation VR 2 and Playstation VR and will start presale on November 15th.

Crossfire: Sierra Squad

The South Korean shooter series Crossfire is mainly popular in Asia. With Crossfire: Sierra Squad, manufacturer Smilegate brings one Spin-off for PSVR 2, which will be released in 2023. Familiar characters, maps and movements from the series also appear in the new one VR game on.

As the leader of an elite strike team, you take part in a war over a secret biochemical weapon. Over 60 campaign missions revolve around action-packed paramilitary battles between rival factions Black List and Global Risk.

The 17 enemy types with advanced AI can be shot out of the way even more immersively thanks to the haptic features of the new Sense controllers, so the promise. Heavy artillery, helicopters and persistent boss battles are also included.

Among the 39 weapon types, including grenades, there could also be modern specimens that are controlled by eye tracking. The announcement does not explicitly mention the feature, but it does mention “sniper rifles with revolutionary sight mechanics”.

In Co-op rounds with up to four players Hand signals from the motion controllers are said to play an important role in silent communication. Also planned are an arcade mode, a realism mode and a hardcore horde mode. Competitive multiplayer matches as in Firewall Ultra are not planned. But ambitious people can compete in global leaderboards.

Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue

Hello Neighbor: Search and Rescue is the second VR adventure of the devilish stealth game. Once again you have to outwit the neighbor Mr. Peterson and escape his clutches.

Series creator tinyBuild Games is collaborating with Steel Wool Studios (Five Nights at Freddy’s) for the new VR game, which already delivered the early VR strategy game Quar: Battle for Gate 18 in 2016.

you will keep returning to the neighbor’s house to slip into the role of six young neighborhood heroes. Together they face their fears to free their friend, who is being held captive in a bizarre basement prison.

You must learn each of their skillsto solve puzzles, unravel mysteries and escape safely from the neighbor’s house. Pre-orders for the game start on November 15th.

PSVR2 adaptations of popular VR games

Here are a number of others newly announced by Sony PSVR2 gameswhich are conversions of well-known titles.

Cities VR – Enhanced Edition

The building game Cities VR (to test for Quest 2) had been on the MetaQuest 2 great potential, but suffered severely from technical inadequacies.

In the Enhanced Edition on the powerful Playstation VR 2, Fast Travel Games has a chance to do better. Pre-orders for the game start on November 15th.

Cosmonious High

Five years after Job Simulator introduced Owlchemy Labs Cosmonious High proposes, which revolves around silly experiments with the physics engine.

In it you visit the alien high school of the same name and look for the cause of all sorts of amusing disorders. Pre-orders for the game start on November 15th.

Jurassic World Aftermath

In the stealth game Jurassic World Aftermath (to test Quest 2) slips into the role of a hacker named Sam, who is on his way to the notorious dinosaur island Isla Nublar.

Your mission: salvage valuable research from the ruins of the park and try not to be eaten up in the process.

pistol whip

The rhythm action in pistol whip offers a wild mix of Beat Saber, Superhot and Rez, which will quickly make you sweat.

Since the release in 2019, VR veteran Cloudhead Games has regularly provided the game with new musical-psychedelic scenarios. The PlayStation VR2 version will be available as a free upgrade for owners of the original PSVR version.

Zenith: The Last City

The VR MMORPG Zenith: The Last City promised many hours of fun and long-term motivation in a fantasy setting. Nier: Automata, Final Fantasy and Sword Art Online serve as models.

Exploring the open world confronts players with floating islands, futuristic cities and archaic monsters. After the successful start in early 2022, however, the number of users fell sharply. Pre-orders for the game start on November 15th.

After The Fall

The snow zombies in front of you, up to three friends next to them and masses of bullets and meat flying in between: The co-op battle festival based on Left 4 Dead After The Fall (for testing) by Vertigo Games connects gamers across platforms.

PSVR 2 users could therefore meet fellow players from SteamVR, Meta Quest 2 and PlayStation VR if they start cooperatively in the tough, difficult missions.

tentacular

In tentacular from developer Firepunchd and indie publisher Devolver Digital, you rampage through an idyllic island community as a clumsy tentacle monster.

Above all, friends of chaotic, lovingly staged physics puzzles get their money’s worth here, also thanks to the rustic English dubbing. Pre-orders for the game start on November 15th.

These titles complement the previously announced PSVR2 gamesabout which you can find more information here.

Note: Links to online shops in articles can be so-called affiliate links. If you buy via this link, MIXED.de will receive a commission from the seller. The price does not change for you.