Overwatch, Team Fortress, these are the games that come to mind when you're playing Starblood. Arena shooters in VR can be pretty awesome, it turns out.
Starblood Arena2017
Starblood Arena
2017 Sony Interactive Entertainment68Worthwhile
Playtime
ShortIt typically takes about 3 hours to finish the game.
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Details
- Launch
- April 11, 2017
- Developer
- WhiteMoon Dreams
- Publisher
- Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Themes
- Genres
Overview
StarBlood Arena is a futuristic flight combat shooter developed for use with the PlayStationVR headset. Players navigate battle pods in 360-degrees-of-freedom through underground arenas in close-quarters competitive and co-op multiplayer gameplay for 2 to 8 players. In tournaments set up across the galaxy by the StarBlood Network, players compete for fame, fortune, and survival. Successful competitors will unlock ship modifications and customization options and battle through the ranks of the online leaderboards.
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Reception
Press68
Worthwhile- Metacritic68from 23 reviews
- OpenCritic68from 15 reviews
Starblood Arena has the mechanics to be a compelling online VR shooter. But the lack of any compelling content and the difficulty of finding other people to play with proves to be one too many obstacles you shouldn't need to be facing for a game this expensive.
A decent PSVR shooter, but the price-point isn't as accessible as the game itself.
The best online shooter on PlayStation VR… but there's nobody online. Virtual reality won't satisfy fans of the multiplayer, at least for now.
As we saw with RIGS and how Sony abruptly axed its life support, the same could very well happen to StarBlood Arena and that's a bloody shame. I want this game to do well, I really do, but as a multiplayer VR title with a non-existent server population and an exorbitant price tag, it's fighting an impossible fight.