10 Best VR Shooters To Play Right Now
If there is any game genre that’s a perfect fit for VR, it’s shooters.
Virtual reality is still considered to be in its infancy. The Oculus Rift development kit was released way back in March 2013 and since then there have been a number of VR headsets on the market including the Vive, Valve Index, Windows Mixed Reality, and PSVR. All are aiming to immerse us fully into imaginative and absorbing worlds.
There are many games that have come along over the years and made us realise how perfect a fit VR and shooters truly are. Getting absorbed into a virtual universe is a visceral and exhilarating experience that is made all the more exciting by that big screen sitting inches from your face.
There are some interesting gaming mechanics that truly shine in virtual reality, things that just don’t have the same impact on a monitor or a TV. Horror games are even more horrifying, and explosions are more explosive, and the guns feel much better when you are holding one in your virtual hand.
VR can make you realise how bad of an aim you actually are as your bullets fly past every target you aim for, hitting everything but the threat in front of you. So get that gun in your hand and grenade at the ready as we dive into the best shooters that the world of virtual reality has to offer.
10. Pistol Whip
If Beat Saber and Superhot had an offspring, it would be called Pistol Whip, a rhythm game with a pumping electro soundtrack and plenty of immersive gunplay.
VR has so far provided us with a good platform for exercise and workouts, all whilst having fun. Whereas Beat Saber gives us a set of lightsabers to slice and dice virtual blocks, Pistol Whip gives us guns to murder digital enemies, all whilst a thumping soundtrack drives the mayhem.
It’s like being in a Tron movie but with an arsenal of guns and plenty of threats to shoot your way through. Being an on-rails shooter means you are restricted to a single direction, but the guns, the music, and the rhythmic gameplay certainly make up for its linear approach and simplified gaming mechanics.
Once Pistol Whip clicks into place and you start to move to its gunplay and rhythmic elements, it makes you feel like a true badass!