You are, at all times, equipped with a pistol in each hand to break special marked objects, solve shooting gallery puzzles like switching the train tracks and disarming traps, and fighting off enemy monsters that accost you in your cart. Much like Rush of Blood, Switchback VR is an on-rails shooter on a rollercoaster. As a rollercoaster shooter, it’s intense and the creatures are pretty gory and fun to slay, but as a storytelling vehicle, it’s nonsensical even if you know the narrative so far.
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Even boss battles that include major antagonists from the Dark Pictures series feel stripped of their narrative impact to simply play out as gimmicked bullet-filled showdowns. However, you hardly ever have any time to register what you’re seeing or why. You’ll be shooting off disgustingly detailed zombies, abominations, and ravenous rats in the rusted underbellies of naval ships inspired by Man of Medan, and then be gunning your way through the intensely creepy abandoned homes and sinister living dolls of Little Hope. This game features a lot of looks back at familiar characters, settings, and scares, but rapid-fire style. The sheer speed of Switchback VR seems to fly in the face of the nature of The Dark Pictures Anthology. Apparently, the character you play in the game had a father that really liked the ride you're being taken on, though it is hard to tell why he would be into a ride that constantly tries to kill him as it retraces the steps of the series in such fast-paced fashion. The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR moves fast, and spends very little time doing any kind of explaining, contrary to the choice-driven and contemplative nature of most of the Dark Pictures Anthology. While this game contains some original characters and narrative, it’s hard to say any of it really stuck with me. The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR is a gathering of bits and pieces of the previous Dark Pictures games, going back as far as Man of Medan, and setting them in an original story playing out on a rollercoaster ride.
While Switchback VR benefits from the better technology of the PS VR2 and presents a somewhat riveting thrill ride, the breakneck-paced retelling of the Dark Pictures games so far and performance issues make it a less than stellar attraction among both the Dark Pictures and PS VR2 menagerie. This game attempts to gather the whole first season of The Dark Pictures games into another gunslinging carnival ride. Now, with a season of The Dark Pictures Anthology behind it, it’s trying again with The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR for the PS VR2. Previously, that led to Until Dawn: Rush of Blood on the first PSVR. Needless to say, this tech has enormous potential to deliver genuinely terrifying horror game experiences.Every once in a while, Supermassive Games gets a wild hair to take its previous work and roll it up into an on-rails shooter styled as a horror rollercoaster. According to game director Alejandro Arque Galladro, some enemies will get closer to the player every time they blink, while other enemies can only move when the player is not looking directly at them. It's been confirmed that the upcoming horror game will know when players have their eyes closed. One new feature with the PlayStation VR2 is eye tracking, which will be put to good use in The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR. The PlayStation VR2 headset has many new features and upgrades when compared to the original device, in turn giving the developers new tools to work with when crafting their virtual reality experiences. RELATED: The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR Reveals Pre-Order Bonuses Whereas Rush of Blood was set in the Until Dawn universe, Switchback VR is tied to The Dark Pictures, a horror anthology series that plays similarly to Until Dawn while still firmly establishing its own identity. Switchback VR is not a launch title for the PlayStation VR2, but it's expected to release for the PS5's virtual reality headset on March 16. Rush of Blood was a launch title for the original PlayStation VR headset that served as a spin-off to Until Dawn. The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR is following in the footsteps of Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, both of which were on-rails shooters from developer Supermassive Games that served as spin-offs of their choice-driven narrative-based horror games. PlayStation VR2 horror game The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR will make good use of the new headset's eye tracking technology to scare players.
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