Resident Evil 4 remake hits Oculus Quest 2 this year — everything we know

Resident Evil 4 remake hits Oculus Quest 2 this year — everything nosotros know

(Prototype credit: Oculus)

Resident Evil 4 for VR was appear last calendar week, and is skipping Sony'due south PS VR headset to launch exclusively on Oculus Quest two, bringing a stone-common cold Resi classic into the world of virtual reality this twelvemonth.

You can lookout a very brief overview of the VR makeover for Resident Evil 4 below, but Oculus executive producer Ruth Bram delved into the finer details of the title in the Oculus Gaming Showcase livestream. The core systems of the game accept been reworked for VR, making it arguably more suspenseful and spooky than the original.

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While Resident Evil four is by no ways the scariest installment in the series, playing in VR is going to kick things up a notch to a possible pants-wetting level.

The web log post too fleshes out the mechanics of the game, which is played in first-person from Leon Kennedy's perspective. Players can control movement using the analog stick but Armature has overlaid a full upper-body rig on top of Leon "to combine his movement with the dual-handed interactivity accomplished with Touch controllers." And if you're not a fan of using the analog stick to motility around in VR, there's support for teleportation and room-scale move, then you can explore the world in your preferred way.

Bram adds that the studio is likewise making sure that the game can exist comfortably played sitting down, adding that in that location are a "ton of condolement options" for yous to sit down back and enjoy the experience.

VR is a hugely unlike medium to regular console games, and so the style in which the player interacts with the environment has had to be transformed. Weapons and items are now physical objects in the earth that you tin can option up and interact with. If you want to switch out your weapons, you'll need to grab them off your torso — and you can even dual wield, with a weapon in each hand.

Aside from the gameplay changes, Resident Evil 4 for Oculus Quest 2 features remastered art, while grapheme animations accept been converted to Unreal Engine 4. Oculus noted that they "remain untouched from the original source fabric, and all cutscenes will exist presented in their original format."

Other additions that look set to go far significantly more than terrifying than the original game include spatial audio. Combine the cacophony of creepy voices, cackling crows, and suspicious creaks with the pressure level of physically reloading and wielding weapons, and you'll probably be sweating buckets in no time.

If you've got fourth dimension to lookout the six-infinitesimal segment on the game from the showcase, it'southward worth a wait. Resident Evil iv VR is set to launch in 2021, with more details being released equally we go closer to its release.

Check out our where to buy Oculus Quest 2 guide to get yourself the stellar VR headset. But of you're not interested VR then why not see what nosotros know so far on Resident Evil Village.

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