#EVE VALKYRIE XBOX ONE UPDATE#
This is where EVE Valkyrie ’s Warzone update comes in.īilled as a soft reboot for Valkyrie, the Warzone update makes it fully playable with or without VR, and also reworks the overall progression system from top to bottom. Attractive graphics and an intuitive, gaze-based approach to missile lock-ons kept the servers buzzing and belayed criticisms regarding lack of depth or the presence of unwelcome microtransactions.Īs the VR trend has cooled somewhat, CCP decided to cast their net wider. It became a similar lighthouse for would-be customers of Sony’s PlayStation VR, offering all comers the fantasy of playing an elite space jockey fighting for cash and thrills on the other end of the universe. Copies of Valkyrie were even thrown in with every purchase once the hardware was being sold in earnest. This approach has been embodied in comics and novels, snazzy CG trailers, and in a spin-off title designed to appeal to folks without the time or inclination to dive into a full-fledged MMO.Ĭentered on the fighter pilots of the EVE universe, EVE Valkyrie was a multiplayer spaceship shooter that served as an early poster child for commercial VR and became the best-known, most attractive early demo for the Oculus Rift VR headset. Some approaches have involved tweaks to the game itself, or changing its business model to attract new blood to its intimidating, cutthroat world. Other attempts have focused on the fiction underlying EVE - a far-future galactic dystopia that imagines what life would be like in the “Outer Colonies” that something like Blade Runner only hints at. Iceland-based CCP Games is well aware that their flagship title has limited mass appeal, and they’ve been trying for years to make EVE happen in a bigger way.
For a lot of folks, that title is EVE Online, a space-based corporate warfare RPG that attracts more curious onlookers than paying subscribers. WTF A lack of singleplayer narrative content doesn’t help sell the EVE setting.Įveryone has a game that they admire more than they enjoy - the kind of thing they’d rather read about in articles or hear about from devotees than actually play, or the sort of thing whose reputation exceeds the reality. HIGH Well-tuned dogfighting with or without VR.
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