Resident Evil Village PSVR 2 mode is stunning but flawed

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When you’re watching a horror film or playing a scary game, there’s always the safety blanket of knowing that it’s just on that big TV screen in front of you. No matter how horrid the imagery, how deviant the killer, they can’t jump out of the screen and attack you. It’s a comfort, but what happens when you take that security blanket away? Well in short, it’s bloody terrifying.

The free Resident Evil Village PSVR 2 upgrade takes the whole game and lets you play it in virtual reality. There’s no safety blankets here!

First impressions are amazing. Resident Evil Village looks superb when playing in PSVR 2, second only to Horizon Call of the Mountain in terms of new generation wow factor. You can almost feel the cold as you trudge through the snow, or the dampness of the dark log cabins, and being completely surrounded by this setting adds so much tension to the game.

While the VR is great, having it paired with 3D audio through the attached earbuds really brings the game alive. With these plugged in you are completely cut off from the real world and every roar from behind a tree gets your heart racing. The opening section of the game as your trudge through an almost pitch black forest with things screaming in the dark is incredibly intense, so much so that I had to have an hour’s break afterwards just to calm down.

With the eerie music gradually building in the background, things going bump in the night. and jump scares, it feels like being strapped on the down section of a roller-coaster for a good ten minutes. Thankfully things become a little less intense the further you play but, as the warning suggests at the start of the game, you are really going to need to take sensible breaks while playing.

There’s a short tutorial