We’re excited to introduce a new web series: Developer Showcase. Each week, we’ll showcase developers who work to bring games and experiences to Rift. This week we’re focusing on Hidden Path and their upcoming title, “Defense Grid 2”!
Wednesday, March 9: Get a sneak peek at some new screenshots from the game and get your questions ready for an AMA on Thursday!
Thursday, March 10: AMA with Jeff Pobst on r/oculus.
Friday, March 11: Exclusive item giveaway on Twitter!
Saturday, March 12: Check back for a summary on the forums and reddit of the week’s activities.
Defense Grid 2: Enhanced VR Edition
Defense Grid 2 is the definitive tower-defense strategy game and the new Enhanced VR Edition gives players the most intuitive and immersive Defense Grid experience imaginable.
New intuitive user controls and displays designed from the ground up for VR make game actions faster, easier, and highly accessible. Players have a physical sense of the action around them. You can lean in and look all around your base in the VR edition and even view the action up close near the aliens and towers.
The Enhanced VR Edition includes new exclusive content; the first official DG2 story expansion featuring five new levels and a new storyline with fan favorite A.I., General Fletcher.
Key Features
Award-Winning Tower-Defense Strategy Game 26 missions including 5 exclusive new missions 14+ hour Campaign Story mode 7 additional Challenge modes across missions 4 difficulty levels of play Over 40 tower upgrade items with 5 levels of strength Online Global and Friends Leaderboards for every mission and mode Over 60 online Achievements Xbox Gamepad and Oculus Remote support Supports English, French, German, Spanish, and Korean - Full cast voice acting for each language Content designed for ages 10 and older
Game Characteristics
Extremely comfortable VR game for all types of players Suitable for as many hours of play in VR as desired Easy UI and controls, anyone can pick up and play then explore the deep gameplay strategy Thousands of updates and changes to the game specifically for the VR version
It will be a stand alone edition - so much under the hood has changed and been modified for VR that it can't work with the old version unfortunately. It also will not be on Steam, but on the Oculus service.
"nalex66" wrote: Cool! I wonder if this will be an upgrade to the existing DG2 (which I already have in my Steam library) or a separate stand-alone edition?
I think top-down strategy-type games are a great fit for VR. I'd love to play XCOM2 with the Rift!
Remember- Rift, Vive are accessory for PC not a consoles. Exclusives will not become a thing. Well... except few tech demos and minor games, just because no one will bother to convert them into other devices.
It better not become a thing... I despise closed platforms and VR should be treated as a peripheral not a platform. I can understand some sort of time exclusivity if one of the VR company funded a game, but full on exclusivity, that I can't accept.
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Super excited for this. I love tower defense. I think tabletop scale VR is going to turn out to be one of the best genres of VR and people are underestimating its appeal. It's like playing with toys! 😄
"jeffpobst" wrote: It will be a stand alone edition - so much under the hood has changed and been modified for VR that it can't work with the old version unfortunately. It also will not be on Steam, but on the Oculus service.
Fair enough, I don't mind buying it again. That's a lot of work converting it to VR if you weren't going to see new revenue from it.
"Bendak" wrote: Super excited for this. I love tower defense. I think tabletop scale VR is going to turn out to be one of the best genres of VR and people are underestimating its appeal. It's like playing with toys! 😄
i'm just like you 😄 just the exact opposite 😛 i hate tower defense games never could figure them out but i do think that DG2 looks pretty awesome for a Tower defense kind of game 😉
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