Lone Echo II nears its October 12 launch date because the final Rift unique

Lone Echo II is nearing its October 12 launch date, when it can make its mark because the final unique sport for the Oculus Rift PC-based digital actuality headset.

The sport will even be playable on a wi-fi Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2, as long as you employ Oculus Hyperlink or Air Hyperlink to connect with a VR-capable PC. Nonetheless, it’s an end of an era of kinds, as Fb’s Oculus has positioned its bets on the standalone Oculus Quest 2 platform, the place the processing takes place contained in the headset (except it’s join by way of Oculus Hyperlink to a PC), as an alternative of the Oculus Rift, which relied upon the PC for its processing energy.

The sport comes from Ready at Dawn Studios, which Fb acquired in June 2020. The newest trailer out at the moment suggests the sport stays on schedule for the launch after it was delayed in August.

The unique Lone Echo was an enormous achievement in VR storytelling when it debuted in 2017. It advised the story of astronaut Liv and her AI assistant Jack on a journey in area at a mining station close to Saturn. And now the single-player sport has a sequel in Lone Echo II. It’ll price $40.

Above: Liv is the star of Lone Echo II.

Picture Credit score: Oculus/Prepared At Daybreak Studios

Prepared at Daybreak Studios, which had a historical past making triple-A video games like Sony’s The Order: 1888, additionally made Echo Enviornment, a cool multiplayer fight sport the place one staff takes on one other in zero gravity in VR. It was pioneering as a result of it didn’t make delicate gamers like myself as sick as different video games did, because of cautious design. The corporate additionally created a sequel, Echo Fight as one other multiplayer title.

In Lone Echo II, gamers will as soon as once more play as Jack in one other dramatic journey alongside Liv. The sequel brings again the entire options that made the unique common together with its zero-gravity controls, sharp visuals, and emotional story. You’ll have to make use of a brand new assortment of instruments to beat advanced challenges in a 360-degree atmosphere.

The unique Lone Echo is accessible for $10 on the Rift platform. Troy Baker is the voice actor for Jack, whereas Alice Coulthard is the voice for Liv.