

In Superhot (stop me if you’ve heard this before), time moves only when you do. The flatscreen original was great but, by bringing your whole body into this groundbreaking shooter, the developer completely flips the game on its head. Superhot is, without a doubt, the most instantly rewarding game to play in VR. It might not have seen some of the more significant quality of life improvements we were hoping for, but Firewall is still one of the best games you can currently get on PSVR. Plus multiple seasons of new content have added more maps and perks to the game even years down the line from release. The unmatched sensation of holding an assault rifle in your hand makes you feel incredibly powerful and draws you back in time and again to recapture the rush. It’s PSVR’s excellent Aim controller that makes Firewall a real standout. simulator you’ve always dreamed of experiencing. It has a few hiccups, but First Contact’s multiplayer shooter is one of the purest expressions of leaving your own body and stepping into the role of someone else entirely that you’ll find in VR. That’s the pitch behind a lot of VR shooters these days, but none of them realize it quite as well as Firewall: Zero Hour. It’s as stupid as it gets but Gorn’s a game you should take seriously. Beyond the stupidity, though, there is actually a great structure in place here that will keep you coming back to unlock new content and make battles surprisingly tense affairs, too.

Not because we have psychotic tendencies but because it’s all so stupidly over the top that you can’t help but laugh. Want to pull a guy’s head off? Bash him in with a rock? Swing a mace into a face and knock some eyeballs out? Gorn lets you do all that and it feels wonderful.

Gorn is all about being the last man standing in a gladiator arena, and the game has little in the way of rules to stop you from doing that. Before we step into the murky ground of ‘realism’, Free Lives has jumped all the way over to the other side of the canyon and spilled a frankly hilarious amount of blood in the process. There’s definitely an argument to be made for keeping VR games from getting too violent but Gorn basically rips any such debate’s jaw off and then beats it to death with its own arms.
