Final 12 months’s revival of Sega’s late-Dreamcast-era obscurity Cosmic Smash is coming to a a lot wider viewers in 2024. C-Smash VRS, primarily based on the Sega recreation that mixed Rez aesthetics with racquetball and classic arcade recreation Breakout, has been unique to Sony’s PlayStation VR2 headset for the previous 12 months, however it should get a model playable on PlayStation 5 with out that headset someday this summer season.
Developer Wolf & Wooden and writer RapidEyeMovers name the replace to C-Smash VRS the New Dimension model. It can add a third-person gameplay choice to the present first-person perspective of the sport, which means it should quickly play like traditional Cosmic Smash. This summer season’s New Dimension replace can even convey “revolutionary as-of-yet-unannounced options” to C-Smash VRS.
For VR fans with no PlayStation 5, C-Smash VRS can also be now accessible on Meta Quest (2, 3, and Professional) and Pico 4.
The addition of a conventional 2D display screen possibility for C-Smash VRS is a shocking, if welcome, replace. It’s additionally an inversion of how VR assist sometimes works, by which video games like Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 remake and Crystal Dynamics’ Rise of the Tomb Raider had been the recipients of post-launch VR modes.
C-Smash’s incoming replace may very well be seen as one other indicator of the well being of PSVR2 within the market. Final month, Bloomberg reported that Sony was pausing manufacturing of PSVR2 {hardware}, citing slowing gross sales and surplus stock. In February, Sony’s in-house VR growth groups had been hit arduous with layoffs; the PlayStation maker shuttered London Studios, the workforce behind PlayStation VR video games Blood & Reality and PlayStation VR Worlds, which had since moved on to a non-VR PS5 recreation; and laid off builders at Firesprite, the studio behind Horizon: Name of the Mountain.
