Arizona Sunshine developer Vertigo Games has announced today that its virtual reality (VR) videogame, Skyworld, will be released this Fall for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality (MR) headsets.
Created in conjunction with Wolfdog Interactive, Skyworld is a one to two player title, that mixes turn-based strategy with real-time battles in which you play a king looking over their battle map. From here armies and buildings can be created to storm enemy strongholds, whether that’s in the single-player campaign, skirmish mode or the online cross-platform multiplayer.
So that means when the Windows MR headset does finally launch as a consumer version later this year – there’s a developer kit already available – owners will be able to fight against Oculus Rift and HTC Vive players as well – possibly the first VR title to confirm this functionality.
Vertigo Games first announced Skyworld at the 2015 Game Developers Conference (GDC). It followed that with a showcase of Oculus Touch support that same year, then stating the title would be among the first for the motion controllers. That didn’t happen, instead the studio has continued development, adding another compatible headset that should hopefully help when finding online matches.
VRFocus will continue its coverage of Skyworld, reporting back with any further updates.
The videogame, for all intents and purposes, is the same as it appeared on the PC VR formats. A single-player campaign offers a story-led experience which comes complete with ham-fisted b-movie style dialogue and its fair share of exciting set-pieces and bottlenecks. The campaign is far from perfect, but remains hugely enjoyable. Far more so than the original HTC Vive release – a lukewarm wave shooter – would let you believe. In the months that have passed since its debut, Arizona Sunshine has transitioned into a fully free-movement FPS, and this is the version that has launched on PlayStation VR.
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Arizona Sunshine is by no means a masterpiece, however it is a significant step closer to the VR experiences that early adopters know the technology is capable of. Hesitating to innovate too much, Arizona Sunshine cleverly picks-and-chooses from the key mechanics that have proven to work in four years of PC VR development and brings them to PlayStation 4 feeling almost new. Vertigo Games has created a hugely enjoyable FPS videogame for the early days of VR, but one which will undoubtedly look dated in just a few months.
Featuring a single-player campaign, co-operative gameplay and a horde mode for up to four players,