Synapse is shaping up to be the next must-buy game for PSVR2

Watch Ian Higton take 12 minutes worth of Synapse PSVR2 gameplay for a spin on this week's VR Corner.

[SullysCigar]

This looks awesome! These guys already nailed cover-shooting with their last game, Fracked, and it looks like they've perfected it for Synapse.

As great as it looks though, I'm GOBSMACKED that this guy managed to make a whole preview without once mentioning that you can climb those rocks and cliffs, hang from them and shoot, leap off them, launch yourself over obstacles by grabbing them and pushing off of them - all sorts! How do you miss something like that from a preview?!

You can also reload your gun by slapping the butt on an obstacle or an enemy instead of pushing a new clip in, if you like. This is John Wick: The Videogame.

[Magog]

Jennifer Hale and David Hayter? Talk about your ideal cast. Makes me wonder why David Hayter isn't in more games.

[LiViNgLeGaCY]

This looks so damn good!!

[Abnor_Mal]

I’m going to give my honest opinion of the video I saw on YouTube and say the enemies look flat like partially deflated ballon people.

The guns did not have an impressive sound to them when being fired.

Everything else looked okay, I would wait for a sale if I’m honest, but maybe I just need to see more gameplay.

[SullysCigar]

Beardo Benjo has better footage, in 4K too. Matteo has some as well. Both are on YouTube.

[Abnor_Mal]

I’ve seen Matteo before, but never heard of Beardo Benjo so I’ll definitely check him (them) out.

What I said about the characters looking like partially deflated balloon people is not only for this game but quite a few vr games. If you look at your arms and or legs while playing GT7 it looks like a skeleton in clothes driving. Of course not all vr games are like that, just look at the Resident Evil games and you can see that the characters have true mass to them.

It’s definitely a “me” thing, and very minor but still. Oh you never commented on the gun sounds which was just as big a gripe for me.

[SullysCigar]

^ Lol I have noticed my driving body is particularly slender in GT7! Must be all that sweating - racing is pretty physical stuff.

I'm not worried about the guns from what I've seen. It sounds like the haptics and triggers are being used to great effect - they were great in Fracked, their previous game - so I think they'll feel great to use and hopefully sound nice once we're playing. We've only seen 12 minutes of the pre-release demo, so the crappy starting pistol and a little bit of footage of an SMG. I expect there will be more guns. I know what you mean though - I was a big fan of Black back in the day and that game NAILED awesome gun sounds!

Certainly looks like the pistol is weak unless you get headshots, though. We also only saw one enemy type (and a brief peak at some kamikaze guys in another video I saw), but I've seen screenshots of others, including a huge guy that picks up the other enemies and lobs them around.

I think this vertical slice was just intended as a taster, to show off the native 4K visuals and the gameplay mechanics, but we'll get loads more soon, as it launches on July 4th, So we'll know soon enough how it all comes together.