Marvel’s Deadpool VR is a Quest 3 & Quest 3S exclusive action-adventure game launching later this year.
Developed by the Meta-owned studio Twisted Pixel Games in collaboration with Marvel Games, Deadpool VR promises to put you in the suit of the super-antihero in “an over-the-top mix of parkour and chaotic combat where anything goes–from grenade-assisted takedowns to literally losing your head in a Helicarrier heist”.
The game has a cell-shaded graphics style, and will feature “a bunch” of locations from across the Marvel universe where you’ll encounter and battle “iconic” villains.
Unlike in the films though, Deadpool in VR is voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, not Ryan Reynolds.
Twisted Pixel Games was founded in 2006, and mostly made Xbox games published by Microsoft for the first decade of its existence. In fact, Microsoft owned the studio from 2011 until 2015, when it became an independent company again.
On contract from Facebook, between 2017 and 2019 Twisted Pixel released four VR games:
- Wilson’s Heart (Rift): a 2017 black & white psychological horror game with voice acting from Peter Weller, Alfred Molina, Rosario Dawson, and Michael B Jordan.
- B-Team (Go/Quest): a 2018 collection of minigames, including a running game where you avoid obstacles and a wave shooter, ported to Quest in 2022.
- Defector (Rift): a 2019 action-packed spy thriller reminiscent of Mission: Impossible.
- Path of the Warrior (Rift/Quest): a 2019 brawler, essentially a first-person VR take on games like Streets of Rage, Final Fight, or Double Dragon.
In 2022, Twisted Pixel Games was acquired by Meta.
Deadpool VR is set to be the third blockbuster VR game in three years released by Meta’s Oculus Studios for its Quest headsets. The game follows Batman: Arkham Shadow, released by Camouflaj last year. Asgard’s Wrath 2 was also available for Sanzaru Games in the previous year. Camouflaj
was released on Quest 2.0 two years prior to Arkham Shadow. Meta ported Iron Man VR Marvel Powers United VR in 2020, and while
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