Sony’s PrE3 shows have now shown offTetris Effect, Days Gone release date and a new trailer, Twin Mirror, and the adorable Ghost Giant and they aren’t done yet. Today is the last of the PrE3 announcements from Sony who promised earlier this week that we’d be hearing about “an eagerly anticipated game coming to PSVR.” That title was none other than Beat Saber that originally released for PC VR into Early Access on May 1st. After recapping all that we’ve already learned the panel showed a trailer for the popular Beat Saber. In this rhythm game, you need to use lightsabers in each hand to slash at various blocks coming towards you in time with the beat. Difficult is added when you become required to slash at blocks in a certain way to earn points, combos, and reach for the leaderboards. This is a game that has already exploded in popularity over the internet when it released for early access on Steam back in May with fans creating all … [Read more...] about Sony PrE3 Day 5 – Popular Rhythm Game Beat Saber Reconfirmed For PSVR
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Beat Saber Review – A Rhythmic Challenge
Outside of Japan, the rhythm game genre is one that heavily waxes and wanes. When it launched, Dance Dance Revolution was a hit in the west. Guitar Hero and Rock Band were huge hits from around 2008-2011. Since then, it’s mostly died down in the mainstream. Games like DJ Hero were flops and Rock Band VR fizzled without much fanfare. But now, a new game has appeared from a small studio. Enter Beat Saber VR. Using the handheld controllers, players must swing colored sabers to cut blocks, timed to various songs. It’s simple, but that’s one of the things that makes it so appealing. Players are immediately thrown into an abstract world, standing on a platform. In your left hand, a red saber. In your right, a blue one (sorry, fans of Luke Skywalker, there’s no green saber for now). Red and blue blocks come hurling at you and must be cut in a specific direction indicated by an arrow. Starting out, there’s a clear separation of these blocks on either side. … [Read more...] about Beat Saber Review – A Rhythmic Challenge
This perfect run of a custom Beat Saber VR track will blow your mind
Star Wars meets Guitar Hero is the elevator pitch for Beat Saber, an Early Access VR rhythm game that's making waves on Steam. The game comes with a limited number of tracks but users can build their own, and an active community has grown at beatsaver.com, where people upload their creations set to songs of their choice. You can watch one such custom track played in the video above, and it's mind-bogglingly cool. It's the kind of thing that makes you want to go out and buy a VR headset on the spot.The video, uploaded by Ruirize, starts of calmly enough, as he slashes his dual lightsabers at the coloured blocks in time to the beat. And then the music picks up and blocks start pelting him, coming in pairs in quick succession. In Beat Saber, you have to hit each block from a particular direction, so he almost looks like proper Jedi, twirling his laser swords to get the right angles. It's beautifully hectic.It's a modded version of the game: from what I can tell some of the visuals, … [Read more...] about This perfect run of a custom Beat Saber VR track will blow your mind
VR rhythm game Beat Saber, now the highest rated game on Steam, releasing level editor next week
If you haven't heard of Beat Saber before, then you're not alone—I only caught wind of it earlier today. But this Early Access VR rhythm game, which is basically a lightsaber version of Guitar Hero, is now the highest rated game on Steam. It's clocked nearly 2,000 reviews with a 99% positive rating, which is enough to put it above everything except the Witcher 3's DLC expansion pass. It's going to change a lot before it leaves Early Access later this year, starting with a major update next week that will let players create custom levels set to their own audio files.The current version is essentially an arcade mode with a limited number of songs, but it's still got players hooked. The premise is simple: you slash at coloured cubes as they come towards you to the beat, and each one will only be smashed if you hit it from a particular angle. If you want more on the game itself, then Jack interviewed the creator here. The level editor will be the same one that the development … [Read more...] about VR rhythm game Beat Saber, now the highest rated game on Steam, releasing level editor next week
Beat Saber is a VR rhythm game that’s basically Lightsaber Hero
I first saw Hyperbolic Magnetism's Beat Saber on Twitter. Someone retweeted the 30-second video of the VR rhythm game above and I was hooked immediately. The idea is that you wield two lightsabers and slash at colored cubes as they zoom toward you. You can't just flail wildly at them, though. Each cube is tied to a particular beat and has an arrow indicating the direction you should strike it from. It's Stars Wars meets Guitar Hero. Ján Ilavský, the lead developer on Beat Saber, initially came up with the idea after he bought an HTC Vive and was dissatisfied with the rhythm games on offer. He felt many of them failed to satisfyingly tie the action to the beat, and started to think about how he would go about making one instead. "I bought the HTC Vive more than a year ago, and I was really looking forward to play some rhythm games, particularly Audioshield," Ilavský elaborates. "I started to play it […] and I didn’t feel the rhythm as much as I was … [Read more...] about Beat Saber is a VR rhythm game that’s basically Lightsaber Hero