Deadpool VR makes YOU Marvel’s most risque anti-hero later this year
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Splosion Man creator Twisted Pixel has teamed up with Oculus Studios and Marvel Entertainment for the biggest fourth-wall breaking game ever… of all time: Deadpool VR. Will it be as good as LocoCycle? We sure hope so.
Announced during Summer Games Fest, the upcoming Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S exclusive puts players in the shoes of the Merc with a Mouth in an all-new original story to the bizarre Mojoworld.
Deadpool VR takes players to Mojoworld
Built upon the studio’s underrated Path of the Warrior, Deadpool VR has been in the works for years. Twisted Pixel and Oculus Studios’ new cinematic VR game will see you visit “a bunch of locations from across the Marvel universe, battling against iconic (and not-so-iconic) villains. It’s real metaverse stuff—in the Marvel Universe sense, not the VR one”.
In the new VR game, Neil Patrick Harris, known for How I Met Your Mother and Doctor Who, voices the iconic Marvel Comics character and–judging from the just released trailer–he’s doing a fine job. After the actor’s work playing Count Olaf in the Netflix adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events, that’s not too surprising,
In the trailer, the fourth-wall breaking, almost-unkillable mutant is shown zipping through rooms on a Bulletstorm-esque electro-whip, throwing kunai knives at enemies and shoving fascists into rotor blades. It’s filled with explosions, comic-book-style pop-ups and the expected mayhem of a VR anti-hero game.
“Like any great VR game, if you can imagine it, you can probably do it,” reads a press release sent by Meta. “Sure, you can simply stab or shoot your enemies, but where’s the fun in that? Punch someone while holding a grenade? Check. Take your recently exploded-off arm and throw it at the bad guys? Gross, but also check. Hold an enemy’s face into a spinning propeller? A bloody, but efficient, check. Soldiers, demonic dogs, weird humanoid lizards, creepy worm-things, they’re all waiting to be dismembered in creative (some might say sadistic) ways.”
Deadpool VR doesn’t currently have an exact release date. However, Meta claims that the game will release sometime later this year. There is no Quest 2 or PC version of the game in development.
