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Rhythmic VR workout Beat Saber now has multiplayerWear yourself out in VR, with pals!
Wear yourself out in VR, with pals!
Until now, your only foe in VR sword-slasherBeat Saberwas the music. A fight to the death against floating blocks hurled through the void in time to some boppin' tunes. While you’ll still be decapitating cubes, the latest update for Beat Games' virtual, musical fencer adds multiplayer, letting you test your moves against up to five other humans making fools of themselves in their living rooms.
It’s not like anyone’s going out dancing right now, anyway - so why not make a competitive swordfight out of it with some strangers online?
Watch on YouTube
Watch on YouTube
Ah, well, enough armchair designing. To facilitate multiplayer personas,Beat Sabernow lets you customise your little avatar. Not to the extent of some of the anime characters folks are dancing as on YouTube, mind, but it’s a light enough touch. All songs from the base game and DLCs can be played in multiplayer, and while crossplay isn’t in yet, the devs hope to add it sometime in the near future.
I don’t mess around with VR headsets much, and reckon I’d collapse after 15 seconds of Beat Saber, but it is proper brilliant, eh? It’s still one of ourfavourite VR games on PC, with Graham reckoning that actually it might bethe best one ever made, probably. Add some extra players into the mix, and that’s a recipe for one hell of a jam session.
Beat Saber is available onSteamfor £23.79/€29.99/$29.99, or slightly less on theOculus Store.
