Horror slash adventure meets VR
The promise of VR has been around for a long time, but it wasn't until the Oculus Rift came onto the scene that we started truly buying into the hype. While it's still a little early to bet the farm, what we've seen has us pretty convinced that VR is finally on the verge of being an awesome experience. Helping us to come to that conclusions are well made games and demos like Insomniac's Edge of Nowhere.
Insomniac President and CEO Ted Price talked with us about the title, which is a new action-adventure title with some horror elements. The game puts in you Antarctica in search of a missing expedition. As you hike and climb through the mountains, you uncover a surreal world that gets increasingly strange the deeper you get.
It's one of the better AAA VR titles out there, if not the best to date. The game uses a third-person perspective and is somewhat reminiscent of Uncharted and Tomb Raider. One of the goals with the game is to create a sense of unease as you explore the unknown.
Price says Edge of Nowhere draws definite inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft so you can expect Lovecraftian horror elements and surprises. However, it's not strictly a horror title -- there are lots of other elements at play as well.
Third person seems like an odd perspective for VR, though Price says Insomniac has learned a lot about how to best utilize the perspective. For example, taking the camera control away from the player is something that he says can be uncomfortable. so even though Edge of Nowhere is a third person title, you still have control of the camera.
Have a look at the full interview below:
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