Marvel’s Deadpool VR is a Quest 3 & Quest 3S unique action-adventure recreation launching later this yr.
Developed by the Meta-owned studio Twisted Pixel Video games in collaboration with Marvel Video games, Deadpool VR guarantees to place you within the go well with of the super-antihero in “an over-the-top mixture of parkour and chaotic fight the place something goes—from grenade-assisted takedowns to actually dropping your head in a Helicarrier heist”.
The sport has a cell-shaded graphics model, and can function “a bunch” of places from throughout the Marvel universe the place you may encounter and battle “iconic” villains.
In contrast to within the movies although, Deadpool in VR is voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, not Ryan Reynolds.
Twisted Pixel Video games was based in 2006, and largely made Xbox video games printed by Microsoft for the primary decade of its existence. The truth is, Microsoft owned the studio from 2011 till 2015, when it grew to become an impartial firm once more.
On contract from Fb, between 2017 and 2019 Twisted Pixel launched 4 VR video games:
- Wilson’s Coronary heart (Rift): a 2017 black & white psychological horror recreation with voice appearing from Peter Weller, Alfred Molina, Rosario Dawson, and Michael B Jordan.
- B-Workforce (Go/Quest): a 2018 assortment of minigames, together with a working recreation the place you keep away from obstacles and a wave shooter, ported to Quest in 2022.
- Defector (Rift): a 2019 action-packed spy thriller paying homage to Mission: Unattainable.
- Path of the Warrior (Rift/Quest): a 2019 brawler, basically a first-person VR tackle video games like Streets of Rage, Last Combat, or Double Dragon.
In 2022, Twisted Pixel Video games was acquired by Meta.
Deadpool VR is ready to be the third blockbuster VR recreation in three years launched by Meta’s Oculus Studios for its Quest headsets. It follows final yr’s Batman: Arkham Shadow from Camouflaj, which adopted Asgard’s Wrath 2 from Sanzaru Video games the yr earlier than that.
It can even be the second official Marvel recreation obtainable on Quest headsets. Two years earlier than Arkham Shadow, Camouflaj ported Iron Man VR from PlayStation VR to Quest 2.
Deadpool himself was a playable character within the 2018 multiplayer Oculus Rift PC VR recreation Marvel Powers United VR, launched by Sanzaru earlier than the unique Asgard’s Wrath. Meta shut down Marvel Powers United VR in 2020, and whereas a fan challenge introduced again singleplayer final yr, Meta put an finish to its official distribution only a month later.
Thus, for gamers of Marvel Powers United VR who personal a Quest 3 or Quest 3S, the brand new Marvel’s Deadpool VR might be a return to embodying the super-antihero.
Marvel’s Deadpool VR “in-engine” screenshots.
Marvel’s Deadpool VR is unique to Quest 3 and Quest 3S, and can arrive “later this yr”. We lately went hands-on with a demo construct of the sport, and you’ll learn our impressions right here:
Arms-On: Deadpool VR Shoves Meta Head-First Into The Future Of Gaming
Donning a superhero’s bloody physique is an ideal match for Quest headsets in Twisted Pixels’ Deadpool VR.
