Red alert 2 in VR and 3d engine

[Yunru]

Found this a interesting concept:


Do you think this will be a future of strategy games?

[Cyclone Jack]

Interesting proof of concept. While I don't think this is the future for RTS games, this does show that it has potential. The controllers can obscure a bit too much, and jumping around the map could be disorienting, but I think with some more refinement something like this could work.

[Afrospinach]

Do you think this will be a future of strategy games?

A novelty at best, but damn have they done a good job at porting it.

RTS is largely about user interface and this looks rather clumsy, I think supreme commander is the current high water mark in that arena imo. Can't beat that infinite zoom, it also supports dual screens but because of the aforementioned zooming that is largely redundant I found.

[LilSaihah]

I wonder how an RTS/FPS hybrid ala Battlezone would play in VR. I loved BZ & BZ2.

[Yunru]

A novelty at best, but damn have they done a good job at porting it.

RTS is largely about user interface and this looks rather clumsy, I think supreme commander is the current high water mark in that arena imo. Can't beat that infinite zoom, it also supports dual screens but because of the aforementioned zooming that is largely redundant I found.

Yeh its true i would prefer playing with a mouse. Looking at map left and right is pretty much like using camera change button. (wich can cause confuzion on big maps)

But it could work for any game.

[Bigbazz]

Looks pretty cool to me, one of my favourite games too.

[Yunru]

Looks pretty cool to me, one of my favourite games too.

Yeh and build menu needs to be either on left or right side of screen, since you cant look down every time you want to build something.

[endersblade]

That is REALLY fucking cool. Having to use that hand-held thing looks awkward as fuck though. I can definitely see RTS going to VR/3D, but not quite like that.

[ComputerNerd]

Interesting concept, but horribly impractical for the genre I feel.
Perhaps for Tower Defense games it could work, particularly those with an FPS element, such as the Sanctum series as well as Orcs Must Die.

[Afrospinach]

That is REALLY fucking cool. Having to use that hand-held thing looks awkward as fuck though. I can definitely see RTS going to VR/3D, but not quite like that.

You know, your right. They ported nearly the epitome of classic RTS style straight into VR. If they tweak the gameplay a bit maybe it will look more natural, maybe something like battlezone that is not such epic scale. Actually I think battlezone is working on doing just that since the re release.

[Sunseeker]

I think this would be an amazing transition for Warhammer style tabletop games. Sure there's a certain appeal to the physical and the dice, but I think if they did something like this where you and another player could stand a few feet away, or even miles away and be playing at the same table it would be amazing. Heck, it'd work for almost any type of tabletop game! I'd love to play D&D like this.

[Fallen Angel]

This could really expand the rts genre to consoles with things like the psvr. I'll be watching this pretty close

[Aori]

I love RTS games and Red Alert, unfortunately I can't use VR hardware having monovision. This makes me sad.. just give me the ported game with traditional UI.