Bolvërk Games and PlayStack released word today that a new sequel to their VR shooting gallery Dick Wilde (2017)is slated to launch sometime in February.
The sequel, dubbed Dick Wilde 2, promises to bring cross-platform online co-op, more boss fights, levels, and a wider range of difficulty levels for all supported headsets, which include PSVR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive.
Image courtesy Bolvërk Games, PlayStack
Game publisher PlayStack says that Dick Wilde 2 takes users to “a host of new locales which have been infected by the massive outbreak of toxic spillage, creating a foul sludge that has mutated the local wildlife into the most darn-tootin’ vicious critters ever seen by the river folk.”
New weapons include gravity guns, arrows infused with divine lightning, mortar strikes, AI assassin drones, and hopefully some of the fan favorites too such as the revolvers, the shotgun and shield, and paintball guns.
Image courtesy Bolvërk Games, PlayStack
Unlike the previous Dick Wilde, the sequel is said to feature cross-platform VR online co-op, letting PSVR and PC VR users play together. PSVR users may have a leg-up in the aiming department though, as the sequel is confirmed to support both PlayStation Aim in addition to PlayStation Move.
“Our fans made Dick Wilde a success and we’re doing everything we can to give them all that they want in the sequel,” said Bo Bennekov at Bolvërk Games. “We are so proud that Dick Wilde 2 features online VR co-op – it was our most requested feature and a lot of hard work, but we know players are going to love shooting mutated piranhas with a buddy by their side.”
Dick Wilde 2 is also said to include other fan-requested features including a wider range of difficulty settings, more power-ups and “screen-filling” boss fights.
Tongue-in-cheek wave shooter Dick Wilde has been launched on PlayStation VR so PlayStation users can experience shooting critters like alligators and piranha fish on console and with the newly launched Aim Controller.
Dick Wilde stars the titular hunter and outdoorsman as he hunts down armies of birds, fish, crocodiles and other critters. There is a whole array of weaponry available for players to choose from, ranging from the relatively sensible pistol and shotgun through the things like nailguns and harpoon launchers. Several of the weapons have alternative firing modes which can result in things like buzz saw blades skimming across the water towards your target.
Previously launched on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift back in March, the PC VR version of Dick Wilde has been reviewed by VRFocus, saying: “Technically Dick Wilde is a well put together experience, the action is fast, fluid and fun. There’s never a moment where it feels sloppy or hamfisted.”
The development team revealed that the title was designed with the Aim controller is mind from the start, and mapped the size and shape of the Aim Controller on to the two-handed weapons in Dick Wilde for a more immersive experience. As such, when fighting off swamp creatures using the harpoon rifle, grenade launcher, revolver rifle, shotgun, paintball gun or nailgun, the experience should be an accurate one, with haptic feedback calibrated for each weapon.
Dick Wilde is out now in the PlayStation store, available for £11.99 (GBP). The Aim Controller can be bought as part of a bundle with newly launched PlayStation VR title Farpoint. Further information on other titles compatible with the Aim Controller can be found elsewhere on VRFocus.
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The highly-anticipated Farpoint is launching exclusively for PlayStation VR today, and is compatible with a brand new accessory: the PlayStation Aim controller. A bundle including the PlayStation Aim and Farpoint is available, but there’s more to this new device than just one videogame.
The Brookhaven Experiment
An update to introduce support for the Aim controller is coming on 6th June, 2017 to this horror shooter title from Phosphor Studio. The Brookhaven Experiment was previously a HTC Vive exclusive before being ported to PlayStation VR with some changes, including implementing more realistic graphics and simplifying the inventory and loudout system.
Dick Wilde
First-person wave shooter Dick Wilde features a whole array of strange weaponry, such as nail gun, paintball guns and harpoon rifles, all of which will be made compatible with the Aim controller in a future update along with the other two-handed weapons to make shooting alligators and piranha easier.
Arizona Sunshine
Airzona Sunshine is one of the most popular VR first-person shooters available on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Featuring the zombie apocalypse and a desperate struggle to survive in the harsh desert conditions, this title will also feature support for the Aim controller when it comes to PlayStation VR in June 2017. Using the Aim controller limits players to a single weapon, but by recompense, accuracy is much increased.
Rom: Extraction
Fast-paced action shooter Rom: Extraction has a unique feature where instead us using a standard arsenal of guns, players instead throw orbs that have two potential functions: igniting the orbs to attain kills, or activating an effect that slows down time allowing the players to strategically pick off targets. The Aim controller will effectively act as an orb launcher. Rom: Extraction will be coming to PlayStation VR sometime in summer.
VRFocus will bring you further information on when Aim Controller support is introduced and what other titles will support the Aim controller as that information becomes available.
If you like your virtual reality (VR) shooter fast and furious then Bolverk Games’ Dick Wilde might be just what you want. Released in March for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive the first-person shooter (FPS) takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to killing waves of enemies and VRFocus writer Peter showcases what the videogame is all about.
Themed on the American deep south, you play as the titular character Dick Wilde, who’s been hired to rid some swamps of some nasty creatures. Whether they’re alligators, piranha, electric eels, insects or birds, they all want to bite, sting, and generally hurt you anyway they can.
VRFocusreviewed Dick Wilde for launch, saying: “Technically Dick Wilde is a well put together experience, the action is fast, fluid and fun. There’s never a moment where it feels sloppy or hamfisted.”
Checkout the gameplay video below, and for further updates on Dick Wilde, keep reading VRFocus.
Bolverk Games needs to learn some lessons about the internet. Sure, it can be a harsh place, but if there’s one thing that social feeds love, it’s animals. How the studio arrived at the conclusion that blowing up adorable kittens would be a laugh remains a mystery to me, but last year’s Kittypocalypse was still a mechanically enjoyable if unremarkable VR game. The same is true of its latest effort, Dick Wilde.
In this polished VR wave shooter you tear into crocodiles, fish, seagulls, sharks, and dragonflies with fast-firing nail guns, razor sharp saw blades, and grenade launchers. The game takes great pride in this premise, thinking it’s as ridiculous as a Goat Simulator or as hilariously violent as a Surgeon Simulator, but it lacks the outlandish setups of either. It feels as if the game is aimed at an audience that takes joy in drowning puppies or stepping on hamsters.
“I don’t always kill animals, sometimes I just sedate them and take them home to experiment on them,” Dick often quips between the game’s rounds. If that’s Bolverk’s idea of a joke then I wish it would stop trying to be so funny.
I don’t think the tone’s malicious, though, I think it’s just misjudged. And even though I struggle to picture anyone howling with laughter, Dick Wilde is still one of the more polished and enjoyable wave shooters I’ve played in VR, with a welcome touch of challenge and a smart focus on pass-the-headset multiplayer.
There are 9 levels in total, taking you from swamps and oceans to lakes, with the difficulty ratcheting up each time. You’ll pick from a long list of weapons, some boasting secondary fire modes and other special abilities, and face off against 10 waves of critters per level, with a tough boss fight rubbing salt in the wounds you’ll have accumulated by the time you reach them.
At first you might find Dick Wilde a little too tough. In my first few tries I could only make it to the third or fourth wave before succumbing to crocodile bites and bird poo, but once you’ve found the weapon that suits you best (mine was the nail guns set to burst fire) and learned to dodge incoming attacks you’ll tip the scales a little. It’s still by no means a push over, and it was perhaps a mistake to lock out two of the three levels in each area until you’ve beaten their first challenges, but it’s refreshing to play a VR game that actually pushes you for a change.
Bolverk also includes a party mode that encourages players to alternate goes and try to get high scores. Sure, it’s just the same as playing in single-player, but this social aspect is an appreciated extra, as VR has really come into its own as an experience that people take turns with.
What I welcomed most about Dicke Wilde, though, was the unexpected workout it gave me. While not quite as intense as Paulo’s Wing, here you’ll need to dodge regular incoming projectiles, and weaving out of their way will work up a sweat quite quickly. In fact the day after my first two-hour play session I could barely move the lower half of my back or my legs, and I’ll keep playing after this review goes like both to try and better better scores and as an additional tool in my VR fitness regime.
Final Score:6/10 – Decent
Dick Wilde is lucky that it’s a polished and enjoyable wave shooter, because it’s subject matter confuses animal cruelty with comedy resulting in a flat, bizarrely morbid tone. On a strictly mechanical level it’s an enjoyable but unspectacular shooter that I appreciated more for the workout it gave me than anything else. Bolverk Games continues to prove that it can make rock-solid VR experiences from a gameplay perspective, I just wish the team could wrap it in a more agreeable context.
Dick Wilde is available now for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive with a PlayStation VR (PSVR) release scheduled soon, along with support for the PS Aim controller. Read our Game Review Guidelines for more information on how we arrived at this score.
Tongue-in-cheek shooter Dick Wilde has launched onto the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive platforms today, with publisher PlayStack saying the PlayStion VR version is coming in May.
The title stars hunter and outdoorsman Dick Wilde, whom the player can take control of, and use a vast arsenal of weaponry from ordinary rifles through to saw blades, nail guns and an electrified bow and arrow. The object of the game is simple, kill the army of alligators, piranha, electric eels and birds before they kill you.
Dick Wilde features both a single player and a local party multiplayer mode. In single player, you explore the different environments like the swamp, lagoon and the North to face different critters, aiming to maximise the high score and reach the higher levels of the global leaderboard.
Bo Bennekov, CEO at developer Bolverk Games said: “Each of our titles focuses on certain genres that really work for VR. We want our games to be immersive, replayable and just plain weird. Dick Wilde delivers exactly that. After six months in development who’d have thought we’d have a game where the aim is to make sure you’re not fish-bait and we’re able to get this to market!”
The developer will be bringing Dick Wilde to EGX Rezzed in London, where attendees will be offered the chance to win a PlayStation VR headset by taking a selfie with Dick Wilde when they play the game. Bolverk and Dick Wilde will be at EGX Rezzed Booth VR4 from 30th March – 1st April.
The title is available for purchase on Steam for a price of £17.99 (GBP). A discount of 15% is being applied to bring the game to £15.29 for the first week only. On the Oculus Store Dick Wilde retails for £14.99.
VRFocus will bring you further updates on Dick Wilde and other VR titles as they become available.
Launching this Thursday, Bolverk Games’ Dick Wilde is first and foremost a wave-based VR shooter. Yes, I know we’ve seen plenty of those, but what separates this one from the rest is the imaginative assortment of weapons players will wield. Today, we’re going to show you them.
Dick Wild is a pest control veteran, that is brought in to deal with dangerous beasts in swamps and oceans. To help him finish the job, he’s got a huge arsenal filled with things that shoot, stab and explode.
Electric Bow
Any VR owner should be used to the trusty bow and arrow by now, but Dicke Wilde’s take on the weapon lets you shock enemies with electricity.
Grenade & Missle Launcher
A grenade launcher for clearing out swamps might seem like overkill, but it certainly gets the job done. One hand fires while the other detonates.
Harpoon & Sawblade Rifles
Harpoon guns might be a more traditional way to taking out fish, but sawblades aren’t. These make us feel a little sorry for anyone that’s on the wrong end.
Nail Guns
A good ol’ fashioned nail gun more than does the trick when it comes to gunning enemies down. Especially if there’s two.
Paintball Guns
These are effectively Dick Wilde’s machine guns, spurting out paintballs at a fast rate to take care of sharks and crocodiles asap.
Revolvers
If you’re looking for something that packs a little more punch then these two revolvers should do the trick.
Shotgun & Shield
If you’re getting overwhelmed by the enemy then the shield that accompanies the shotgun should give you a helping hand while you blast away.
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Dick Wilde launches on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on March 30th for $19.99. A PSVR version is expected later down the line.
Today virtual reality (VR) developer Bolverk Games has announced its second title set to launch later this month. Going for an American deep south feel, Dick Wilde, is a rooting tooting first-person shooter (FPS) for Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR.
A comedic shooter, players take the role of the titular character who’s been hired to rid Mississippi swamps of ravenous animals that are turning the hunters into the hunted. With a range of home built weapons at their disposal, from normal guns to nail guns, saw blades, grenades and more. players will have to eradicate gators, electrics eels, giant turtles and more before the swamp can be deemed safe. The videogame will feature 9 levels across three different habitats, with three difficulty levels to master.
Bolverk Games will be taking Dick Wilde to PAX East this weekend for visitors to get a feel for the title before launch. Dick Wilde will hit Steam and the Oculus Store for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift respectively on 30th March 2017. It’ll be priced at $19.99 USD/£17.99 GBP, but for the first week there will be a 20 percent discount available for early adopters. PlayStation VR owners will have to wait until later this year to get their hands on the title.
The developers first VR experience was Kittypocalypse, a tower defence title set across 20 missions with players having to stop a race of wide eyed evil alien kittens from reining destruction down upon your base. Arriving on Oculus Rift just after it launched, with support then expanded to HTC Vive a few months later, checkout the VRFocusreview for further details.
Checkout the reveal trailer below, and for any further updates on Dick Wilde, keep reading VRFocus.
