

The machine pistol is satisfying to fire, with bullet impact sound effects varying depending upon if you’re hitting flesh, metal, or glass. You can take out a bike by shooting the rider or the bike’s tires the resulting crashes were designed to be dynamic and could sometimes even cause one bike to crash into another for a little two-birds-with-one-stone action. At this point your driver punches out the damaged windshield.Īs more motorcycles approach from the sides, your accomplice tosses you a machine pistol of your own, allowing you to return fire at the bikes. Your accomplice, not terribly happy about this, rams the rider’s bike from behind, causing him to land on the windshield before falling down and getting run over by the van. It isn’t long before an enemy on a motorcycle comes speeding up on your van, letting loose a salvo of machine pistol fire. Between you and the driver is a duffel bag full of gun magazines. There’s a lot to play with in this little space, including a large cup with straw on the dashboard, a soda can laying about, air conditioning vents, and radio controls, all of which can be manipulated in one way or another. The beginning of the experience opens with the driver dropping a few lines of exposition as you rummage about the cabin using the PlayStation Move controllers (representing your virtual hands). Report: TikTok Parent Lays Off Hundreds at VR Subsidiary Pico Interactive, Tencent Scraps VR Plans In this scene however, he’s your accomplice, and the two of you are speeding away from the robbery. In the demo you’re riding shotgun with the big guy that later interrogates you after you lose the precious jewel somewhere along the way. The London Heist – Getaway is about five minutes worth of a highway car chase, and as with the previous experience, it’s been executed impressively well. Sony’s London Studio seems to be building out episodic scenes right from an action movie. This exhilarating car chase presumably comes between the robbery and interrogation scenes that we saw at GDC. This week at E3 2015, Sony is showing off an additional chapter in The London Heist which they’re calling Getaway. At least that’s what we learned at GDC 2015 where the demo made its debut on Sony’s new 2015 Morpheus prototype. The story of The London Heist so far is that we’ve participated in the robbery of a precious jewel, killed some guards, then apparently misplaced said jewel-much to the dismay of our big bulky accomplice who is fond of blow torches. From Sony’s London Studio, the demo represents another exemplary entry into the company’s VR content lineup.

At E3 2015 Sony is showing a brand new addition to their The London Heist VR game, this time putting the player in an action-packed car chase.
