FIRST PLAY BLOOD & TRUTH PS VR

Playstation VR has been quietly building itself a solid library of games, but critics argue that Sony’s take on the medium awaits its AAA insta-buy. London Studio’s Blood & Truth aspires to be that game.

If you played The London Heist, part of the Playstation VR Worlds demo compilation, then you’ll have a good idea of what to expect here. That game, brief though it was, felt like a playable Guy Ritchie flick, with shootouts, high-speed car chases and silver-toothed Cockney mobsters aplenty. Blood & Truth has the same kind of vibe.

You’re Ryan Marks, an EX-SAS operative who gets dragged into London’s criminal underworld. Gangster geezers soon begin to flank you from every direction, forcing you to physically lean in and out of cover to avoid the bullets, while reloading is a case of physically grabbing the clip and sliding it into your gun.

It sounds like marketing speak but you really do feel like an action hero, and by the time you reach the slow-mo on-rails sequence you’ll be confident that even John Wick will keep his distance.

It’s not just shootouts that are fun in VR. Simple actions are immersive with the Move controllers, so climbing ladders, punching in codes and taking a quick time-out to play basketball are surprisingly enjoyable.

Given how little of it we played, it would be premature to declare Blood & Truth as PS VR’S first genuine system-seller. That said, London Studio certainly has the foundations to launch one of the format’s best titles yet.