Despite HTC’s partnership with gaming giant Valve, the Vive VR headset has felt a little short on playable games lately, compared to its competitor Oculus. But HTC has promised that we’ll see more of its catalog this month, and we’ve already gotten a trailer for one of the coolest-looking Vive projects so far. It’s called Budget Cuts, a stealth spy game about evading enemies and searching levels using a teleportation gun.
Spy thriller Budget Cuts is one of the coolest-looking Vive games yet
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The teleportation mechanic is an increasingly accepted way to move around in VR, seen in projects like Bullet Train. It gets around the motion sickness that comes with artificial walking — although it can be slightly disorienting, something that definitely comes through in this early gameplay trailer.
Budget Cuts is a motion control game, so there’s apparently no Oculus Rift support planned before its Touch motion controllers launch. There is, however, a promising postscript to the trailer: “No Oculus Touch support yet, because for some reason the dev kit is hard to get by [sic]. If you happen to work at Oculus, is there any way we can get a hold of it?” Otherwise, it’s “coming ‘soon’” to Steam and the Vive.
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