The multiplayer sci-fi shooter Gunheart will unleash players on aliens. In co-op with 3 players, “finger guns” come alive. A release for PlayStation VR is planned.
Gunheart: Summer release for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift – later also for PlayStation VR
The US site Venturebeat reports on Gunheart. This is the first VR title from the Seattle studio Drifter Entertainment.
Gunheart is set to be released in summer 2017 for Oculus Rift and the “HTC Vive” headset. A release for PS VR is also planned – but only later in the year.
Gunheart shows that VR titles are slowly becoming real games. Journalists had the opportunity to go on a 3-player co-op alien hunt in Gunheart.
Mixture of summer blockbuster and Halo
The goal of the game is to combine the atmosphere of a sci-fi blockbuster summer movie with polished gameplay like in Gears of War or Halo.
Players become futuristic bounty hunters who in turn connect with robot killing machines. Quite martial.
To avoid the problems that virtual reality creates when players need to move a lot, Gunheart teleports players into the battles. There they fight against opponents with a variety of weapons – in the demo session, the enemies were insectoid aliens. The weapons range from a crossbow to an assault rifle. A kind of “disc” like from Tron is also recognizable.
Interestingly: When you put both hands together, the guns transform into a Gatling gun that can fire quickly.
Through voice chat, the three players call out commands and hints to each other. It seems that it’s not so easy to keep track in Gunheart while teleporting through the action. This “teleporting” seems to give the game its own twist – allowing players to reach places that would have been inaccessible with traditional running and jumping.
The formula: “Chatting with friends while shooting aliens in the face” is not new. This also summarizes the basic idea of the shooter Destiny. Bungie is also based in Seattle.
According to early reports from sites like “The Verge”, Gunjack still feels like a game from the “first VR wave”, but at least like one from the end of the wave. The setting “Blasting insect aliens in a rocky landscape” may be generic, but the gameplay is fun.
US sites draw comparisons to “Borderlands 3 in VR” or “Gears of War”.
In January, we compiled a list of exciting games for PSVR:
PlayStation VR: The best games of 2017 – These are the PSVR games we are looking forward to
