The combat felt a little weak, to be honest. It was a quick, scripted experience, with a small group of raiders arriving in time to meet some of your bullets. It's also not clear how the hopping style of moving around will gel with a game world as massive as the Commonwealth, even with the existing fast travel system via Pip-Boy. It meant while you could teleport yourself around the Red Rocket, you weren't able to grab any of the stuff lying around, which is really almost the main point of Fallout 4 these days.
Both of those were floating in mid-air, with no arms or hands rendered in. You're either looking at your Pip-Boy or firing your gun, which - rather conveniently - comes with unlimited ammo. As a VR experience, it was a little light on interactivity. You've even got the game's second best companion along with you: Dogmeat. In fact, you're actually transported to the familiar Red Rocket Truck Stop, located just a short walk from the town of Sanctuary. Strapping into Fallout 4 in VR for the first time was like taking a new look at a very familiar world, and the basic look and feel of the game's ruined landscapes gave us a well-known baseline to judge against. At least in this demo, the game's pause-and-attack tactical VATS system was not available. The left Vive controller represents the game's Pip-Boy wearable computer (essentially a menu system) and the right Vive controller acts as a gun. Wandering the wasteland in VRįor Fallout 4, the solution chosen by the game's developers is the same as used by most VR games - a teleport system that can instantly blink you anywhere within a few yards. How do you make a game like Fallout 4 (or Doom) work in VR? Would the open-world experience be too jarring to enjoy for more than a few minutes? These are important questions as bigger brand-name games take the first tentative steps towards virtual reality. That means just about any VR game you play today involves standing in one spot (or physically moving within the HTC Vive's roomspace boundaries), and teleporting around a virtual environment with a point-and-click system, rather than using a gamepad or directional controller to move in real-time. That kind of locomotion is standard for PC and console games, but less common in VR, where the past several years of hardware and software development have been built around divining the types of VR games that won't cause feelings of motion sickness in players. That's because both of these games are first-person experiences involving a lot of walking and running.
(Sony has a large catalog coming to PlayStation VR later in 2016.) But the choice of Fallout 4 and Doom is a potential litmus test for traditional gaming experiences in VR. This makes Bethesda's VR games some of the first "big-name" games to come to PC-based virtual reality.
PlayStation VR arrives October 13 with 50 games.
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