GET EVEN CLOSER TO THE ACTION WITH SNIPER ELITE VR – AVAILABLE NOW
- Sniper Elite VR launches today on PlayStation® VR, Steam VR, Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest 1 & 2
- Watch the new gameplay trailer here
The Frontline, Oxford, July 8th, 2021 – Grab your scope and get ready to take aim! Rebellion, one of Europe’s most successful independent studios, has today launched Sniper Elite VR, a brand new game in the award winning franchise, built from the ground up for virtual reality. Available now on PlayStation® VR, Steam VR, Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest 1 and 2, the latest entry in the award-winning franchise puts you deep into the heart of the action in Southern Italy in 1943 for a fully immersive virtual reality first-person shooter gameplay experience.
The full asset pack for Sniper Elite VR is available here
In Sniper Elite VR, fascist forces have occupied your Italian homeland. Using stealth, authentic weaponry, and your skilled marksmanship as an elite sniper you will need to fight for the Resistance in this exhilarating first-person shooter. All from the added intensity of your VR headset.
Built from the ground up as a virtual reality experience, Sniper Elite VR has been developed in partnership with Just Add Water and Coatsink, the game delivers a new perspective on Rebellion’s critically acclaimed sniping and stealth mechanics which marries breath-taking immersion with the authenticity for which the series is famous.
Game Features:
Heart-pounding gunplay – Grab your rifle, gaze down the scope and take aim, as realistic ballistics and immersive weapon interactions, such as physically reloading while under fire, bring a whole new dimension to this intense sniping simulation.
Exclusive campaign – Take on a new explosive stand-alone campaign with 18 replayable missions as you relive the battles through the memories of an Italian veteran.
Suite of movement options – From full locomotion to accessible single stick teleport, you can tailor the controls to your preference as you use stealth and cunning to outmanoeuvre enemy troops and vehicles across levels packed with tactical possibilities.
Authentic WW2 weapons – Experience the firepower of historically accurate WW2 weaponry, with an armoury of rifles, SMGs, pistols, shotguns, grenades & explosives.
Visceral x-ray kill-cam – Witness the devastating effect of your shot as Sniper Elite’s signature kill-cam returns, rebuilt for VR.
Sniper Elite VR is available now on PlayStation VR, priced at £24.99/$29.99/€29.99 and on Steam VR, Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest (1 and 2) for: £22.99/$29.99/€29.99. The game is a cross-purchase product on Oculus Rift and Quest.
For more details, please visit https://rebellion.com/games/sniper-elite-vr/ and follow the Sniper Elite social media accounts.
OVERVIEW
Title: Sniper Elite VR
Formats: PlayStation VR, Steam VR, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest
Publisher: Rebellion
Developer: Rebellion, Just Add Water and Coatsink
Price: Quest/Rift/Steam: £22.99/$29.99/€29.99, PSVR: £24.99/$29.99/€29.99
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About Rebellion
Founded in 1992, Rebellion is one of Europe’s biggest independent studios. Its flagship Sniper Elite series is renowned for its authentic stealth and sniping gameplay with more than 20 million players worldwide. 2000 AD is synonymous with the absolute finest in British comic book art. With the acquisition of a $100m film studio and the world’s largest archive of English language comics, Rebellion continues to grow from strength to strength.
Rebellion now operates across books, comics, TV and film, but at its core it’s still a leading developer and publisher of games. Whether it’s the breathtaking intensity of Sniper Elite 4, the face-hugging terror of Aliens vs. Predator or the grindhouse frenzy of the Zombie Army series, the Oxford-based studio is revered for creating stand-out games designed to thrill.
About Just Add Water
Founded in 2006 by British career developer Stewart Gilray, Just Add Water (Development), Ltd is an experienced PC and console development studio specialising in work-for-hire alongside original titles. The company has partnered with a variety of the industry’s most high-profile publishers and developers, on well-loved and award-winning franchises. Clients have included Oddworld Inhabitants (Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD & Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty), Bossa Studios (I Am Bread), Codemasters (Micro Machines World Series), Bithell Games (Volume & Volume: Coda), Outright Games (Ice Age Scrat’s Nutty Adventure), and Bethesda.
About Oculus
The Oculus team at Facebook Reality Labs lets people defy distance—connecting with each other and the world—through world-class VR hardware and software. The Oculus content team pursues the creation of best-in-class games, narrative experiences, and new VR use-cases like fitness, productivity, and travel. Oculus joins other teams at FRL dedicated to cutting-edge research, computer vision, haptics, social interaction, and more. Facebook Reality Labs is committed to driving the state of the art forward through relentless innovation.