Synapse Preview – Feel like John Wick’s Jedi in PSVR 2

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The leap in quality from PSVR to PSVR 2 has to be experienced to be believed. After you’ve finished swooning over the incredible Horizon Call of the Mountain, it feels as though the natural next step is nDreams’ Synapse, an incredible VR action game that mixes the mind-tapping secret agent antics of Inception with the telekinetic chaos of Control. How’s that feel? Like you’re a gun-toting Jedi. Which is to say, incredible.

Synapse places you in the monochromatic mindscape of big-bad Colonel Peter Conrad – played by gaming icon David Hayter – your task dropping you deep inside his memories in search of information that might help to stop the biological attack he’s orchestrating. He knows you’re in there, he can feel you moving around, and at various points during our hands-on he promised to root us out, seemingly by sending wave after wave of armed personnel that his mind has manifested in defence.

Thankfully you are not alone in your endeavour. Mass Effect’s Jennifer Hale plays your handler, guiding you with her enigmatic presence through this otherworldly setting.

This greyscale world you find yourself in is immediately arresting, with platforms and walls shifting and moving as you progress through each area. At the edges of each, the ocean of Conrad’s mind washes against the shore, and while Christopher Nolan may have provided plenty the inspiration here, it’s quite another thing to experience it in person. The world is punctuated by colour, the glowing red of the enemies and the collectible Malice proving a dangerous counterpoint to the level’s end portal and its shifting kaleidoscopic shades.

You have to use the skills at hand in order to survive and progress, starting with the tried and tested method of sending them