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You Can Now Play ‘Hellblade 2’ in VR Thanks to This Indispensable Mod

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (2017) was one of the most visually amazing games to get official VR support, however developers Ninja Theory decided not to go that route with the game’s recently released sequel, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II (2024). If you have a beefy enough computer though, you can already play it in VR thanks to the ever-handy UEVR mod.

Praydog’s UEVR mod allows you to retroactively inject a host of games built in Unreal Engine with VR support, putting you head-first into non-VR titles like Palworld and many others.

The same goes for Hellblade II, which was built in Unreal Engine 5, letting users play the game in full 6DOF VR, in either first or third person. Check it out in action below:

In the video’s description, Flat2VR warns you’ll need a “beefy PC (think 4090)” to run the game, which the modding group calls is “one of the best-looking VR experiences you can possibly see in VR today.”

You’ll of course need a PC copy of Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II in addition to downloading Praydog’s UEVR mod from GitHub, or joining the Flat2VR Discord channel (invite link) to grab all required software.

As suggested by Wccftech, you can also go one step further by removing postprocessing effects, such as motion blur, chromatic aberration, lens distortion, film grain, and forced letterboxing too, which can be done by installing another mod from Nexus Mods—handy for giving you a few more options for either flatscreen or VR play.

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Resident Evil 2 & 3 Can Now be Played In VR

Resident Evil 2

The virtual reality (VR) modding community has done some truly exceptional work over the years with titles like Alien Isolation and more recently MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. The latest comes from creator praydog, who released a VR mod on New Years Day for Resident Evil 2 and 3.

Resident Evil 2 VR mod

In development for several months, praydog uploaded the mods to GitHub allowing anyone who owns a PC copy of the survival horror to jump back in, this time ramping up the scares thanks to VR’s immersive capabilities. The modder achieved this thanks to another one of their projects, REFramework, which is capable of adding 6 degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) VR support to most RE Engine titles.

Bringing a Resident Evil videogame into VR is no easy task simply because most are in third-person, VR tends to work best in first-person; especially where atmospheric horror is concerned. So not only are Resident Evil 2 and 3 now in first-person, but the mod also offers essential features like full gun control and weapon collision. You can point and shoot just like you normally would in a VR shooter, you can throw grenades and physically use the knife to dish out damage.

Resi fans know that the games tend to feature a lot of cutscenes so you will find sequences where you’ll jump between a first-person viewpoint and the various cameras each title employs. These are 3D cutscenes, however, rather than in a virtual window, ensuring the immersion isn’t broken too much. Even so, Resident Evil 2 and 3 in VR both look like worthy additions to the franchises ever-growing VR roster.

Resident Evil 2 VR mod

This originally began back in 2017 with Resident Evil 7 Biohazard supporting PlayStation VR. Then last year you had the excellent remake of Resident Evil 4 specifically for the Meta Quest 2.

Can’t wait to play either Resident Evil 2 or 3 in VR? Well, take a look below at a couple of gameplay videos to see both versions in action thanks to leadergamer1 and Gamertag VR.

Plus there’s more on the horizon from the VR modding community. As VRFocus reported in December, experienced VR modder Luke Ross is working on a version of Cyberpunk 2077 that’s expected to arrive at some point this month. For further VR mod updates, keep reading VRFocus.