Ever wanted to be a superhero in virtual reality (VR)? While Oculus Rift owners are patiently waiting for the launch of Marvel Powers United VR to appear this week, PlayStation VR owners have been able to enjoy their own version Megaton Rainfallsince late last year. Today, developer Pentadimensional Games has announced a version for PC headset will be arriving next month.
Via a tweet the studio confirmed that Megaton Rainfall will be coming to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on 9th August, coming to both Oculus Store and Steam. Also on that day the Nintendo Switch will be getting a version while XBox One will see a release on 5th September.
When Megaton Rainfall launched last year for PlayStation VR and a little while later for standard PC desktop monitors the title only supported DualShock 4 or other normal gamepad controllers. The tweet also mentions full gesture control and PlayStation Move support, to give that added feeling of flying around the planet.
A free-roam mode will also be included in an update next month, giving players freedom to explore. Just like the PlayStation VR Move support however, there’s no confirmed date for these being released in August.
Megaton Rainfall isa first-person superhero videogame in which players must fend off a global alien invasion, all by themselves. They’ll be able to unleash lethal energy blasts at foes whilst flying around the world, but care needs to be taken to avoid inflicting too much collateral damage, destroy too many buildings and it’s game over.
There’s no word on how much Megaton Rainfall will cost on Oculus Store but it already retails for £11.99 GBP on Steam. For any further updates from Pentadimensional Games, keep reading VRFocus.
Megaton Rainfall (2017), the superhero game from Pentadimensional Games that lets you become an indestructible, interdimensional superbeing, is finally getting a VR mode for PCVR users next month. To boot, PSVR users are getting a free patch that will include PS Move support.
Pentadimensional today announced the news via a tweet, saying that Megaton Rainfall will be landing on the Oculus Store (Rift), SteamVR (Vive, Rift), Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One with 4K support for Xbox One X in August.
SteamVR and Oculus Store versions will release August 9th. The PS Move patch doesn’t have a specific launch date at the time of this writing.
Megaton Rainfall first launched as a timed exclusive on PS4 and PSVR back in October 2017. Although it later launched on Steam only a short while later, the version was for traditional monitors only, and didn’t include VR support. Not only are owners of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive going to get a chance at the well-received superhero title, but according to Pentadimensional’s tweet, all VR platforms will be getting full motion control support too. At the time of last year’s PSVR launch, the only supported controller was DualShock 4.
Originally set to release on the 26th of September for the PlayStation VR, superhero virtual reality (VR) game Megaton Rainfall will now be released on the 17th of October. Nina Salomons from VRFocus discussed what the game was like after playing it at Gamescom, but in this video interview she asks developer Alfonso del Cerro what the game is all about.
Alfonso del Cero, the developer of Pentadimensional Games tells VRFocushow in Megaton Rainfall, you have to save Earth from aliens that are attempting to destroy the world. The only pitfall is that because you are a superhero, you become a threat to the city you’re saving. This means you have to be careful not to shoot lasers at the city or its citizens as you attempt to kill the Aliens. Del Cero says, “You are indestructible in this game, but this city has a health bar and every time you kill human people, destroy buildings et cetera, the bar will go down and it will be game over.”
The game will be available on the PlayStation VR, but will come to SteamVR next year. Watch the video below to find out more.
Due to launch yesterday for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR was Pentadimensional Games’ superhero themed experience Megaton Rainfall. That arrival never happened with the studio announcing a delay of three weeks yesterday.
On Twitter, the developer stated that the title would now be released on 17th October, saying on its blog that: “We underestimated how long would it take to us to go through the all the bureaucracy in this (crowded) time of the year.” The team did follow up that first tweet saying: “We genuinely apologise to those of you that have been waiting for this game for years.”
As you have already figured out, we are delaying the game 3 additional weeks, till October 17th.
Announced back in 2015, Megaton Rainfall is a first-person superhero videogame in which players must fend off a global alien invasion, all by themselves. They’ll be able to unleash lethal energy blasts at foes whilst flying around the world, but care needs to be taken to avoid inflicting too much collateral damage, destroy too many buildings and it’s game over.
Megaton Rainfall will support both virtual reality (VR) and non-VR modes, and it’ll retail for £12.99 GBP/ $15.99 USD / €15.99 EUR. Additionally, EU PSPlus subscribers will get an additional 20 percent discount if they pre-order.
VRFocus will continue its coverage of Megaton Rainfall, reporting back with any further updates.
VRFocus recently wrote an article about the top Superhero videogames coming to virtual reality (VR) and Megaton Rainfall popped up. VRFocus has covered Megaton Rainfall for a while, and went off the radar. However Nina got hands with Megaton Rainfall at Gamescom and can give you insight on what the game is like.
The best way of describing Megaton Rainfall is like clicking a major city on Google Earth in VR, and flying towards that city to find aliens destroying it. Your job then is to protect the city from the spaceships and aliens without harming the city with your body or other powers, specifically your lasers. You can see the damage you or the aliens do to the city in a small bar on the left.
As you travel, blinkers will appear in order to prevent motion sickness. This means that your 360° visibility will suddenly turn to a 180 degree-like black sphere. Although the video says that a date has yet to come, wenow know that Megaton Rainfall will be released on the 26th of September for the PlayStation 4 and PlaySation VR with more VR platforms in the works.
Described as the ‘ultimate superhero experience’, Megaton Rainfall tasks the player with preventing a global alien invasion, with a full-scale Earth as the destructible backdrop. The game, which was supposed to launch today, is unfortunately delayed for 3 more weeks for PSVR and PS4, now slated to launch October 17th.
Update (09/26/17): Megaton Rainfall was supposed to launch today, but according to the developers, it’s now delayed until October 17 for PS4 and PSVR. As for the PC version, the build on Steam is still set to launch October 26th, but doesn’t advertise either HTC Vive or Oculus Rift support. There’s no telling at this point if the game will remain a PSVR exclusive or if it will eventually head to other headsets.
Original Article (08/23/17): In an unfortunate turn of events, it appears the Earth is scheduled for demolition. In Megaton Rainfall’s action-packed gameplay trailer, scenes reminiscent of various The War of the Worlds-inspired works show environmental destruction on an enormous scale, as the player flies around at supersonic speeds, battling a global attack using superpowers apparently as dangerous to humanity as the alien presence itself.
Del Cerro describes the main character as “an indestructible superbeing” in a recent entry on the PlayStation Blog, who gains abilities as the game progresses. The player can only roam the entire Earth at the beginning of the game, but your powers will increase, letting you “fly to the Moon or walk across the surface of the Sun.” As a result, you can cause just as much accidental damage as the aliens.
“Your basic shot destroys entire buildings every time you miss your target,” writes Del Cerro. “Your telekinesis can prevent enemy grenades from damaging the humans, but it can also send vehicles careening down the street. The gigaton blast can destroy an enemy mothership… or the entire city.”
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Image courtesy Pentadimensional Games
Image courtesy Pentadimensional Games
Image courtesy Pentadimensional Games
This remarkable planet scale and destructibility is achieved with a custom engine designed to handle ‘seamless rendering’, with ‘semi-procedurally generated’ cities. While the game claims to feature a ‘real-scale Earth’, Del Carro has explained that players shouldn’t expect accurate landmarks. “Keep in mind it’s not like Google Earth,” he answers in the PlayStation Blog comments. “You won’t find your home or lots of recognizable places.”
Megaton Rainfall has been in development since 2012, taking a huge jump in presentation quality since its early footage. As noted on the game’s own blog, considerable effort has gone into optimising the game for VR, both in terms of holding a solid 60fps on PS4, and the development of six different control interfaces. Flying around at supersonic speeds in first person without a cockpit to ‘ground’ the player in VR—not to mention all the ‘strafing’ seen in the trailer—sounds like a strong recipe for nausea, but the variety of control options hopefully means that players will be able to find one that’s comfortable. According to another of Del Carro’s answers on the PlayStation Blog, the default controls will be “right stick to do quick turns”, which should be comfortable for those most prone to VR sickness.
