Star Wars: Beyond Victory Aims to Be a Perfect Mix of Nostalgia and Virtual Reality

Somewhere successful the mediate of a Venn diagram combining virtual reality, a 1980s arcade, classical gaming consoles, and playing with your puerility toys is the caller crippled from ILM called Star Wars: Beyond Victory. Set 22 years aft the events of The Phantom Menace, this “mixed world playset” lets you play arsenic Volo, an up-and-coming podracer recruited by the notorious Sebulba to enactment him backmost connected the map

What makes Beyond Victory unique, though, is that portion ample parts of the communicative unfold similar the accepted VR games ILM has released, specified arsenic Vader Immortal and Tales From the Galaxy’s Edge, Beyond Victory is lone partially that. The biggest constituent of the crippled is simply a third-person podracing crippled which you play apical down successful mixed world and power with 1 of your VR handsets, astir arsenic if it were a console crippled oregon a stand-up arcade machine. Think F-Zero, Rad Racer, Spy Hunter, oregon Mario Kart, but played connected a array successful beforehand of you successful virtual reality.

An illustration of the arcade gameplay of Beyond Victory – ILM/Lucasfilm

Io9 was invited to play a speedy demo of the crippled astatine Star Wars Celebration Japan, and portion we didn’t triumph our race, we did autumn for the thought of blending the capabilities of your VR headset with the nostalgia of your childhood. That could mean racing video games, battling your buddies successful a buying promenade arcade, oregon zooming Matchbox cars astir connected the surviving country rug. Beyond Victory someway feels similar each 3 simultaneously, but with the bonus of a full, brand-new Reign of the Empire epoch Star Wars story astir it.

While the crippled is inactive successful development, Jose Perez III, the game’s director, and Alyssa Finley, its enforcement producer, explained to io9 that the thought down Beyond Victory was to blend each those things we cognize and emotion astir nostalgia and gaming. “We’re calling this a ‘Playset’ due to the fact that it isn’t conscionable a game; it’s an wholly caller mode to acquisition the Star Wars postulation and the worlds we make astatine ILM,” Finley said. “This caller mixed world acquisition blends the carnal and integer worlds successful a mode that’s dissimilar thing we’ve done earlier and we’re truthful excited to stock a peculiar archetypal look with our unthinkable Star Wars community.”

Getting recruited by Sebulba – ILM/Lucasfilm

When it’s released, Beyond Victory will person 3 modes. There’s “Adventure” mode, which is the main communicative mode, telling Volo’s travel arsenic helium rises the ranks podracing for Sebulba. There’s “Arcade” mode, which is the top-down, podracing component. It’s portion of “Adventure” mode but tin beryllium played unsocial too. Then there’s a mysterious “Playset” mode, which we did not get to demo, but is described arsenic letting you “Transform the carnal satellite astir you and make your precise ain unthinkable Star Wars moments successful mixed world with a postulation of unlockable virtual enactment figures and vehicles”

So, it feels similar you’d spell done “Adventure” mode to get the story, spell backmost to “Arcade” mode to footwear butt with the skills you summation done that, and past leap into “Playset” mode to just—make the crippled immoderate you want. It truly is astatine the halfway of a amusive Venn diagram.

Star Wars: Beyond Victory – A Mixed Media Playset is presently successful improvement for Meta Quest headsets. There is nary merchandise date.

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