Vertigo Games announced during Sony's State of Play livestream it's developing a PSVR2 game that tells the origin story of the Metro franchise, named Metro Awakening. It's slated to release for the headset later this year, and you can get a first look in the trailer above.
Metro Awakening takes place before the events of Metro 2033, in 2028. "You play as Serdar, a doctor searching for his wife amongst the claustrophobic, irradiated metro tunnels of post-apocalyptic Moscow. As Serdar ventures deeper into the Metro his courage and sanity will be tested by the supernatural forces he encounters, and will set in motion the events that lead to his spiritual awakening as something else entirely..."
The game will make full use of the PSVR2 Sense controllers, utilising the adaptive triggers and headset haptics for increased immersion. "It’s nuances like these that push the level of immersion in VR even further on a visceral level." More details will be shared later in the year.
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The whole Spiritual Awakening thing Sounds like what had happened to Khan but he didn't have a wife.
I love the Metro games and am glad to see PSVR2 getting some love. At the same time, I can’t help but wonder why so many of the most lavish VR games spend their budgets on transporting us to some of the last places I would ever want to be.
@Hoodie718
Me too. I want to be in a colourful world with beautiful scenery and characters.
I love the look of this. Great to see another premium looking PSVR2 game coming.
Man I love Metro...but I really don't want to get VR for one game. Looks really great though. If I had PSVR this would absolutely be a must play.
I'm glad this is coming to PC VR as well, I'm not sure if I want to buy a whole new headset for this game, as good as it looks.
Sony really needs to step up exclusives on PSVR2, since the majority of titles on the platform are also on Quest and PC.
Anyways, this game looks sexy.
I'm genuinely excited for this. The Metro series has fantastic immersion as is. If they can translate that into VR...AND give us Ranger mode...hells ya.
@HotGoomba I really wish that Sony would allow official PC support for PSVR2 so that i could play this with it connected to my PC.
Love my Quest 3 and Index (soon to have a Bigscreen Beyond) but feature set of the PSVR2 is truly next gen
Personally wish I didn't get the psvr 2....it's just to much effort to play the games...I just can never be bothered to stick it on lol ...even though this looks good.....only game I've actually finished in Arizona sunshine 2
@SgtTruth I play VR mostly sitting down, so the cable doesn't bother me much. On top of that, you basically need to play the Quest 3 plugged to get any decent play time cause batteries only last for so long... Plus, the Quest 3 is my first wireless VR after owning 5 ( 2 Rifts, Samsung Odessey, Vive, and an Index) about to have a 6th Wired VR HMD. I've only ever really played VR with a cable. lol
While I get the blurry, light-bleeding fresnel mess. I'm not going to act superior and pretend like I haven't already gotten use to that after 7 years going on 8 years. My eyes have no issue adjusting to it.
I love the metro games so it's a shame I won't be able to play this one 🙄.
Don't have a psvr2 and even if I did want one I'd only be able to play metro for mabey 20 minutes before I'd have to lay down for awhile and probably never play it again 😅
Awesome, great news, day one for me!
@Korgon You don't don't get it for 1 game. You get it for RE4 (worth the price of entry alone), RE8, GT7, Pavlov, etc etc
@SgtTruth “when you stream from PC the battery lasts ages as the internal CPU is barely doing anything.”
That is incorrect. As the SoC still has to handle decompression of the wireless stream, handle tracking, and you now have the WiFi running on full blast to handle the wireless stream.
The average battery life of the Quest 3 is sub 2 hours on native games and wireless PC. External batteries is a tricky subject as people has had too many issues with the Quest 3 and battery since Meta decided to gimp the charge rate of the Quest 3. There are plenty of in depth posts about it.
My play sessions generally last longer than 6 hours since I’m running around worlds and chilling with friends in VRChat.
@SgtTruth There's trade offs. The PSVR2 has proper blacks being oled which will be great for dark areas in Metro, unlike the washed out Quest and LCD pc panels. Plus oled gives you much brighter colours too. Plus you have eye tracking, the best controllers in the business and head haptics. I think you are being a bit disingenuous.
I hope it's not coming to Quest, especially Quest 2 as unless they upgrade it for PSVR2/PCVR it could be severely held back back by mobile headsets.
@SgtTruth I don’t know what you’re talking about man. The true blacks combined with HDR make games like RE Village really shine and heighten the immersion. As much as I would prefer more games without such dreary settings, it can be really effective in PSVR2. It may not be something you appreciate or value, but it’s not just a marketing myth. In Village, when that grinder at the beginning cuts through your handcuffs and sparks start flying everywhere, it was unlike anything I’d ever seen in almost 40 years of gaming.
Vertigo games produce some of the most polished VR games so you know its going to be a solid title.
Presumably they are going to use Arizona Sunshine/Hubris as the basis
Arizona Sunshine had the dog, Hubris had the swimming and extensive climbing.
It will be interesting what the new focus will be with Meteo.......(just let it be more than changing air filters)
@Terry12
Yeah none of those really speak to me personally. I've played RE4 enough. RE8 I didn't really care for. I'm not a racing simulator fan so GT7 is a no go. Then I prefer 3rd person shooters for multiplayer so Pavlov doesn't really speak to me either. Just not enough on PSVR2 that speaks to myself personally unfortunately.
Well, this looks fantastic. I love Metro and the chance to crap myself in VR is too good to pass up.
I've had a blast in VR recently since I managed to desensitise myself to the effects of simulation sickness, and now I'm ready for more. Resi 4 is a revelation and GT7, obvs, but my faves so far are No Mans Sky and Pistol Whip.
PS, I'm getting pretty bored of this weird "unless the headset is the absolute best thing ever, it's awful" arguments I see whenever VR is mentioned. Similar things have been cropping up since the spectrum/commodore rivalry of the 80s.
Gamers have been using their imaginations to fill in the gaps in graphics since the days of the zx81. I don't need a simulation to be utterly perfect in every way for me to enjoy it. I've loved some janky games.
All I need from a game is for it to blank out my awareness of these types of human beings for a while. 😉 PSVR2 is really good at that as it stands.
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