Review: Blood & Truth – Confident Cockney Crime Drama Is a PSVR Dream

Marks man.

As far as tech demos go, the London Heist – which launched as part of London Studio’s varied compilation disc PlayStation VR Worlds – was a convincing one. The short, hour-long crime drama effortlessly captured the potential of Sony’s pricey PSVR headset, demonstrating how it can enhance immersion, story-telling, and interactivity. But the SingStar maker was always going to need a second crack at the concept in order to expand upon it. Enter the excellent Blood & Truth, a blockbuster action movie with the kind of production values that put most virtual reality efforts to shame.

In many ways, this is the Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune of PSVR – it’s sharply written, boisterously acted, and utterly breath-taking behind the goggles of PlayStation’s futuristic facemask. You play as Ryan Marks, a Phil Mitchell-esque character with military experience. Upon learning of your father’s sudden demise, you’re given leave from the army, and sent back to the mean streets of London where your family finds itself embroiled in an underground turf war against a gang of Cockney ne’er-do-wells. It’s every inch as melodramatic as it sounds, and the script is amusingly self-aware from start-to-finish.

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