Much more than just a straightforward VR shooter, Pistol Whip distances itself further from its competition by encouraging players to carry out their face blasting against the beat of the music, with additional score provided for every successful shot made in time with the soundtrack that plays in the background. Certainly, surviving a given stage is a positive result in itself, but the challenge really comes in not only minimising the damage that you receive but also in maximising the score multipliers that you get by pulling off headshots and, of course, pistol whipping fools into the shadowlands – all of which results in a final ranking grade that summarises your performance for the level you have just completed. Where Pistol Whip gets a little more sophisticated though is in how it augments that notion of chasing arcade style high-scores.
The goal, as you might expect, is to get from the start of one stage to the end by laying waste to these enemies in the most stylish way possible all the while dodging incoming fire like some sort of crazed Poundland/dollar store Neo. Pistol Whip PSVR2 Review Nobody Can Be Told What Pistol Whip Is, You Have To See It For Yourselfįor the uninitiated, Pistol Whip is a first-person arcade shooter whereupon the player is essentially stood up and the world rushes towards them, revealing hordes of incoming enemies that snipe at the player from cheeky vantage points and more obvious foes that just headlong rush towards the player with murderous intentions in mind. Oh and it’s an absolutely murderous physical workout, too. However, despite such an attractive opening gambit, Pistol Whip is so much more than just fantasy fulfilment, it also happens to be a resoundingly well crafted rhythm shooter that places a simultaneous emphasis on muscle-twitch reactionary blasting as much as it does on pin-point accuracy and blasting fools to the beat of the music.
Put simply, Pistol Whip makes you feel like John Wick in VR and I guess that would be a good place to both start and end this review. Despite being a handful of years old and releasing for the previous iteration of PSVR, there’s still nothing quite like Pistol Whip and it’s a fact that rings especially true with its debut on Sony’s next-generation hardware.
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