Battlezone: Gold Edition rolls onto PC, goggles optionally available

You wait perpetually for a Battlezone recreation, and immediately two roll up without delay. Mere weeks from the discharge of Battlezone: Combat Commander, Rebellion have the confusingly named Battlezone: Gold Edition lined up for launch on PC in the beginning of subsequent month. Completely unrelated to the recently-remastered RTS/shooter hybrid collection, it is a port of the PlayStation VR arcade tank shooter from final yr, though our model will make the flowery space-age headgear optionally available.

As the title suggests, the upcoming PC launch of the sport comes with all of the DLC from the unique PS4 model of the sport absolutely built-in, though that’s not precisely a lot to write down dwelling about on this case. Battlezone’s DLC was purely beauty, together with paint-jobs on your tank plus a set of Bobbleheads to brighten your cockpit with, many based mostly on 2000advert properties that Rebellion now personal, comparable to Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper.

Rebellion’s tackle Battlezone is a way more arcade-styled expertise. After choosing from three variants of future hover-tank (therefore its capacity to strafe and enhance round), you’re despatched out right into a procedurally generated map (both solo or with pals on-line) to shoot baddies, seize powerups and maintain on so long as doable. There are some small strategy-lite elements to it together with allied bases needing defending, and enemy bases needing assaulting, however they’re largely autonomous constructions, churning out further expendable goodies and baddies.

It’s a pleasant sufficient wanting recreation, in a pointedly retro, texture-lite Tron fashion. Given that the PS4 is hardly a VR muscle-machine, they needed to shoot for one thing clear and easy to be able to hit a pleasant slick framerate, and as such it ought to make for a pleasant lower-end VR title on PC, assuming the porting course of seems okay.

Battlezone: Gold Edition shall be rumbling onto PC on May 1st, and whilst you can play it with an everyday mouse and keyboard (or gamepad, for that matter), it is going to supply full suppport for each Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets, and guarantees on-line cross-play between VR and common monitor-bound gamers.