In January, a teaser site had appeared that foreshadowed it, and today, February 13, the publisher RapidEyeMovers and the developer Wolf & Wood they officially announced C-Smash VRS per PlayStation VR 2: the title in question is a reimagining of the early 2000’s sports/futuristic puzzler by SEGA for game room. For the occasion, the reveal trailer was also published, which you can see at the bottom of the news.
The game will be available during this 2023 (the developers let it be known that the announcement will come soon), and a demo will be released on March 23.
From the pages of the PlayStation Blog, RapidEyeMovers Director Jorg Titledescribes how the game came about:
“Early in the new millennium, Sega made a game called Cosmic Smash. It was released in select Japanese and European arcades and then landed exclusively on home consoles in Japan.
Set in refreshingly minimalist spaces brought to life by graphic design and musicthe game had a particular mixture of sport and puzzle. Think low-gravity squash crossed with a breakout-style game. A real journey to the edge of space and time.
The game appeared seemingly out of nowhere, but soon became an icon of style and designone of those rare games that offers graphics, sound and feel unlike anything else you’ve experienced up to that point.
While it looked like it was from an alternate universe, he fully understood what makes a game great: it was bomb. If I ever wanted to travel to a virtual world, it would be this: a place where I can relax moving in welcoming, tidy and stylish spaces, free from any stress, noise and suffocating ostentation of everyday life.
This world was meant to go VR, but to make amazing worlds, it takes amazing people.
While our planet was in lockdown, I collaborated with a dream team of people whose work I admire, from VR pioneers Wolf & Wood, who made The Last Worker for PS5 and PSVR2 with, to top designers Cory Schmitz (Rez Infinite, Sound Shapes) e Arkotype (Polytron), from musicisti Ken Her (Rez Infinite) e Danalogue (The Comet is Coming, Soccer 96), to the graphic director Rob Davis (The Motherless Oven) e al sound designer Dan Pugsley (Alba: A Wildlife Adventure).
Together, we set out to reinvent this beloved classic for VR and online play, and surprisingly, Sega trusted us.
So here’s a first presentation of our game, C-Smash VRS.
VRS stands for VR and Versus. You can try both on March 23 when we release one demo di C-Smash VRS per PS VR2 su PlayStation Store, with which to challenge other players online or train alone. I can’t wait to show you a virtual reality that until now we could only dream of.”
Below you can see the reveal trailer.
