Zombie titles and video games are a long love affair, and in virtual reality, it’s downright fun. However, there is everything, good and bad, and co-op titles don’t hit the streets. The latest, After The Fall, only moderately convinced us because of its too arcade aspect and its gameplay really simplistic (read our test). However, our eyes are now on a new game, RequisitionVR.
The title published by the London studio Spheroom and developed by Arcadia, to whom we owe Hinge (a horror game that plunges us into environments with an oppressive atmosphere, where the laws of physics and space-time are upset), offers a serious alternative to the competitors of the zombie scene. If the context remains more or less the same as for other games of the genre, since it will be a question of surviving in an apocalyptic world struck by a virus (and blah blah …) in solo as in cooperation, it is at the level of gameplay than RequisitionVR intends to do well.
He suggests going to rub shoulders with the stiffs in the sauce Dead Rising 4 (read our test), that is to say thatit has a system of crafting quite thorough, allowing to indulge in the creation of blunt, protruding, explosive objects and even more, in order to exercise our style with class. Doesn’t the poker by the fireplace and daddy’s grinder get rid of the bad guys? Do not panic, RequisitionVR offer us more than 500 possible item combinations to make the butchery even bloodier. As the video shows, it is possible to combine everything and anything, and thus create a fork launcher thanks to a toaster stuffed with cutlery, to tape this famous toaster to a toilet suction cup to make a mace, or create a grenade with a Nokia 3310.
Anyway, you see the thing coming, the massacre may take a really playful turn. The Freddies have better watch out! What’s more the physical system of the game will allow us to interact with the various objects and scenery elements, and to combine pleasure and creativity by imagining leverage effects and creating domino-style sequences. The collision system is not left out and will offer quality melee combat with animated zombies like rag dolls that you can pierce by leaving your tools there.
The inventory also promises to be provided and should look like what we know in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners.
A zombie party would be very sad solo, so even if RequisitionVR will propose a single player campaign with story mode, it will be possible to start the festivities with three other players. the cooperation mode will therefore transport the four friends in the following game modes, to undo more than ten different enemies as well as four bosses :
- Home Alone : in this mode, at the Mom I missed the plane, one player defends the house and sets up traps, while the other players storm it, trying to recognize and bypass all obstacles;
- Short Session : players appear on a random map and have 20-25 minutes to defend a house against a horde of zombies;
- Raid : players travel between different locations that they must loot and defend against hordes of zombies.
Scheduled for early access from February 24, 2022 on the platform SteamVR, RequisitionVR will then offer only the solo part as well as the cooperative modes Home Alone and Short Session. The mode Raid will follow after the early access phase, just like a Battle royale in which eight to sixteen players will be able to compete!
The title is already worn on Meta Quest, but pending approval by Oculus for 2022, and the version PSVR is scheduled for summer / end of year 2022. But that’s not all, the studio announces not to exclude theidea to bring the game to a flat screen. However, no mention is made of the aspect cross-platform.
We will know more soon and with those promises we are now really looking forward! We leave you with these some fun examples of crafting.
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