The cool factor here is that players get to utilize Batman’s gadgets like the Batarang, Multiscanner and even the grapple gun.Īfter donning the cowl and costume of Batman, there’s a key immersion moment in the game where the player gets to look in the mirror at themselves and realise that YOU are Batman. You do get used to this fast, and the use of the PlayStation Move controllers soon become second nature in manipulating objects and picking them up and otherwise using them in this virtual world. The REAL jarring part is that the hands on screen are NOT attached to your virtual arms as they just float around out there. I must admit though that playing VR games and or experiences like this, it is a little jarring at first to watch your virtual hands move around doing to what you are doing with the controllers. While a short romp in itself, this game does whet your appetite for an all new level of Batman experience in the form of Virtual Reality which challenges this new medium…plus you feel like you are actually placing on the Batman uniform and oddly enough, the PlayStation VR headset FEELS as if you are wearing the cowl of The Batman. So keeping with the style of storytelling as the rest of the Batman series by Rock Steady Studios, Batman: Arkham VR is a short story that leads into the game Batman: Arkham Knight. Given that, Batman: Arkham VR has more of a focus on the detective skills of the dark knight rather than his fighting abilities. While there are game elements, it smacks more of an interactive movie with a dose of find the items in the scene. However it does border more on tech demo and while defining this as a game may be walking the line, I view this more as a Batman Experience. In Rock Steady Studios’ Batman: Arkham VR and thanks to PlayStation 4 VR, players are dropped into a full immersion of the world Batman lives in. What makes Virtual Reality (VR) so special, particularly in Batman: Arkham VR? It gives all super fans a chance to don the cowl of the world’s greatest detective and BECOME The Batman.

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