‘Deadpool VR’ Review – Hilarious, High-Energy, Sometimes Repetitive: But Always Deadpool

Marvel’s Deadpool VR serves up a ship load of quippy banter and on-brand humor from everybody’s favourite ‘merc with a mouth’, actually bringing the soul and wit of the character to digital actuality. Whereas fight can really feel repetitive at instances, and the narrative slightly on the skinny facet, wonderful gameplay selection mixed with the sport’s fourth wall-breaking protagonist makes for a refreshingly enjoyable total expertise.

Marvel’s Deadpool VR Particulars:

Developer: Twisted Pixel
Writer: Oculus Studios
Accessible On: Quest 3 & 3S
Reviewed On: Quest 3
Launch Date: November 18th, 2025
Worth: $50

Gameplay

Deadpool VR is all about expectations. At its core, we’re getting an enormous funds, extremely polished, multi-hour VR expertise that contains a identify model superhero that really isn’t some bizarre knockoff (cough, Marvel: Energy United VR). When you’re in search of Deadpool, you’re undoubtedly getting it right here: weapons, katanas, and dick jokes aplenty.

For dyed within the wool Deadpool followers, you may in all probability cease studying right here. You’ll love the sport no matter this VR nerd’s opinions on fight, enemy selection, stock, and the overall disposability of the sport’s narrative.

However for everybody else, right here’s the fast and soiled. You’ve been kidnapped by Mojo, an intergalactic TV producer who livestreams preventing tournaments. He wants expertise, and it’s your job to search out it, which suggests you’ll be portaling right into a bunch of various worlds, preventing by means of waves of baddies, and nabbing a handful of minor Marvel villains to star as combatants on Mojo’s channel.

You aren’t simply executing waves of ninjas, robots and demons although: the sport needs you to do it with fashion, as a result of each epic kill will get you extra viewers, which in flip means extra factors, extra upgrades, and even a particular capability to maintain issues spicy.

That stated, as a combat-focused expertise, preventing feels slightly too repetitive throughout common encounters—however I’m going to inform you why that’s largely okay. You have got your twin katanas, pistols, a grenade, and a grappling gun that may connect to pre-defined attachment factors, which additionally doubles as a method of tossing across the best baddies—all of which appears to supply a variety of latitude on how you can fluidly take down enemies.

The sport tries to reward you for going ham on every dangerous man with the promise of weapon unlocks and cosmetics, however the sheer variety of baddies, mixed with the overall uselessness of the unlocks, basically threaded me down the trail of optimizing my killing patterns reasonably than going for what the sport hopes I’ll do: combo slicing a man to dying once I might have simply shot him within the head a number of instances.

And I feel you’ll in all probability find yourself doing what I did: essentially the most environment friendly technique is spamming the jump-kick button combo to robotically fly to the baddies face in slow-mo, which helps you to unlock a bunch of bullets into them. Not very cinematic after the hundredth time, nevertheless it will get the job executed. That’s why it type of sucks, however right here’s why it’s type of okay.

There may be really a ton of novelty on show to maintain issues suitably recent, which I feel smooths over lackluster fight.

For all the drabness of ganking your millionth anonymous henchman, Deadpool really enables you to do a bunch of cool and fascinating issues—and I’m not speaking in regards to the finisher strikes, the place you jump-kick a man’s head clear off his stump neck… that will get outdated fast. The sport’s boss fights at all times include enjoyable and distinctive fast time occasions the place you must use your entire package at your disposal—in fact with Deadpool sarcastically lambasting everybody during.

And there’s much more. In the meantime, you’re not simply preventing towards bosses and hoping to Shanghai them again to Mojo World—that’s in any case all the story line. You’re additionally collaborating within the spectacle, as you have interaction in (principally) faux multiplayer matches with quite a lot of recreation modes and maps. All of it means you’re continuously doing one thing totally different, someplace totally different, which actually helps to maintain each second recent regardless of common fight being a little bit of a sore spot.

Whereas cosmetics are enjoyable, functionally talking upgrades really feel slightly tame. No less than for now, there aren’t any various recreation modes outdoors of the marketing campaign, though there’s a digital smorgasbord of the way to earn spendable factors, which allow you to unlock totally different weapons, skins and participant cosmetics. The principle emphasis is undoubtedly on skins right here, as every pistol solely has a half dozen variants that principally simply combine and match three fundamental stats: reload time, journal measurement and hearth energy.

That stated, when you’re into chasing down collectables, Deadpool VR has you coated. When you’re like me although, you’ll be wonderful after beating the ultimate boss (across the eight hour mark on ‘regular’ issue for me) and probably not diving again in for extra.

Immersion

Sure, the katana-wielding antihero is voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, and never celebrated Canadian movie actor Ryan Reynolds. Nonetheless, NPH has mastered the Deadpool everyone knows and love—foul mouth jabs and popular culture references galore. As well, there’s additionally John Leguizamo as Mojo and the ever-brilliant Jeffrey Combs as Mojo’s chief henchman, Main Domo, making for a number of the finest voice performing and script writing I’ve ever skilled in my decade of VR gaming.

And fortunately, this isn’t some type of Skibidi Deadpool reimagined for folks born on this century—that is classic Deadpool. Meaning you’ll be handled to a great deal of ’70s, ’80s and early ’90s TV references, which in 2025 feels more and more odd for a recreation that’s undoubtedly hoping to enchantment to Quest’s goal demographic (aka not the 40+ crowd). No matter although. When you love Deadpool in any capability, you’re undoubtedly getting the true deal on this VR recreation.

On the entire, visuals are wonderful, though a little bit of a combined bag. Typically I get a definite cell shaded, Borderlands vibe to every part, which is completely on-brand for Marvel’s comedian ebook heritage. Then, at instances, the sport takes on a smoother, extra reasonable design that doesn’t precisely conflict, nevertheless it does depart me feeling like I’m in a distinct recreation.

Nonetheless, it’s all performing underneath Quest 3’s modest compute funds, which notably doesn’t use fastened foveated rendering—spectacular contemplating the quantity of characters on display screen at any given second.

Object interplay is without doubt one of the weakest spots in all of this. The one factor I actually need to do is clank my pistols or katanas collectively, however they clip proper by means of. The customers stock is at all times trigger for frustration: grabbing a grappling gun from behind your again oftentimes leads to grabbing a pistol out of your facet holster (or vice versa), which might completely spoil fast time occasions. Regardless of with the ability to considerably readjust the stock slots, I’d recommend not attempting to play seated since biking by means of pistols and the grappling gun appears extra inconsistent given the restricted vary of movement.

In the long run, I hoped for a extra cinematic narrative that was much less game-y total. As it’s, you’re principally in a pocket universe that provides basically a meaningless final result. However hey, Deadpool is correct alongside there with you, making enjoyable of developer budgets, the sport’s identify, hell, even Disney will get a number of alternative phrases from the merc with a mouth.

Consolation

Deadpool VR provides up some very intense motion, which suggests you’ll in all probability must dial in your personal distinctive consolation settings to mitigate the sport’s frenetic motion. I

You are able to do this along with your customary vary of settings, seen under, though one of many largest offenders to consolation is digital camera shake, which is at a virtually fixed when toggled on. There are a number of moments once you’re pressured onto some type of shifting platforms, however these moments are few and much between, and generally permit the consumer to elect a third-person cinematic view if the first-person expertise is just too intense.

Perhaps much less of a bodily consolation situation, however extra of a ethical consolation (?): Deadpool VR serves up its fair proportion of innuendo and cursing (as you’d anticipate), though you may toggle on ‘kiddie pleasant’ dialogue within the settings along with biking by means of 4 issue modes.