Battlezone VR, introduced last year at E3, is a PlayStation VR game that takes the classic Battlezone Atari game and brings it to the 3D world of virtual reality. This week at GDC, Rebellion’s CEO Jason Kingsley revealed a trailer showing the game’s Single Player Campaign, and damn if it doesn’t look awesome.
In the trailer, gameplay starts in an urban, industrial area somewhat reminiscent of Tron, and then hints at other environments such as arctic snowscapes. We also get a look at what we will see as players – a first person point of view inside the tank’s cockpit. Kingsley also tried to describe the maps that players can expect in the game.
“As a player, you’ll experience explosive vehicle tank combat across all these different environments – and more – but what’s most exciting is that once you’ve completed the campaign, your next playthrough will be very different,” said Kingsley. “The campaign map where you pick missions is structured across a series of interlocking “hexes” (for all those older British readers, think “Blockbuster”!) that need to be completed to progress to the finale, and it’s up to you to forge a path through the campaign of your own choosing.”
To make for “endless replayability,” Kingsley also said that Battlezone VR will have procedurally-generated elements. “If you restart the campaign at any time, the hex map is re-generated procedurally, and dozens of environments, levels and mission types are blended together in a different combination,” he said. “So each hex is now completely different from what it was before.”