I’m looking into corners, I’m spotting the apex, I’m understanding more of what the car is actually doing and how to control it. I might not be much, if any faster, but I subconsciously do all the things that you should do while driving a car. For games like The Heist in VR Worlds, you want to have a pair of Move controllers so you feel like you’ve got guns in your hands, for Elite: Dangerous, a HOTAS joystick is practically a must to be able to truly immerse yourself in the role of piloting a ship, and for racing games such as Dirt Rally in VR, having a racing wheel should almost be compulsory.Īs I’m sure I’ve written a good dozen times, playing a racing game in VR just adds a huge amount to the immersion you feel, especially when playing with a racing wheel. As with any virtual reality experience, you can only really get the best out of it if you have the appropriate peripherals to play it with.
There’s really just one proviso to that statement.
We’re pretty late to say this, traipsing over the stage finish line an entire month after Dirt Rally VR’s release on PlayStation VR – you can blame a February stuffed full of major games and consoles to review – but here’s my now positively tepid take on the VR mode: it’s practically essential for anyone with a PSVR.
