One particularly nasty crime scene requires you to rewind the action using your forensic scanner. The fact that you can just look down, see the gadgets and take one from your (height adjustable!) belt is incredible. The implementation of Move controls is also quietly, understatedly brilliant.
I did this by firing my grapnel, it doesn’t matter that I’m not whizzing through the air. It’s just like the Move teleporting but the added sense of bringing a gun from your belt and firing it layers in an extra sense of depth. Cleverly adding a sense of movement without any actual flight, you use the grapnel gun to fire yourself from scene to scene and from each area in the Batcave. It’s completely understandable that there’s no brawling or Batmobile action, but hearing the roar of your favourite vehicle between scenes is a tantalising tease of what a full Batman VR game could be. If you thought those crime scenes were gruesome in Arkham Knight, examining cadavers up close in VR has a certain je ne sais qui-aaaah. In one especially clever - and somewhat unnerving - sequence, you explore a morgue, checking bodies for bomb fragments.
Satisfyingly, this plays to the World’s Greatest Detective aspects of the Bat nicely, making the most of his forensic scanner to examine the world. A vertical Move controller symbol highlights where you can travel and with one press of a button you’re there with no nausea-inducing lurch. This doesn’t mean you’re constantly static, and there’s a surprising amount of head tracking if you’re looking over parapets or into drawers, but a teleport-style system is in place for exploring Gotham’s grim environments. Rather than any kind of recreation of the main games, this is a new story with a fresh viewpoint, and one that understands the limitations of a VR control set-up. If home is a dark, probably-quite-dank cave full of billionaire playboy gadgets, that is.Īrkham VR immediately plays to VRs strengths. This is how it feels to be inside the Batsuit - easy, tiger - and whether it’s when Alfred approaches to greet you or when you look up and watch winged rodents circling the pillar of light entering the cave, you’ll feel like you’re finally home. No longer are we trapped, hovering over the Dark Knight’s shoulder watching his cape swish, enticingly close but never quite there. After donning gauntlets and clipping each individual Bat-tool to your very own utility belt - yep, look down, there it is - with a satisfying buzz of the Move wand, you’re lowered into the ultimate in heroic wish fulfillment. Descending into the Batcave in virtual reality has to be seen to be believed.
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