I was able to time the impact well enough to do a last-second flick of my head to put some English on the ball and make it curve in a direction of my choosing, which often threw off the AI player and scored an easy point. This is the kind of game that can only really work with stereoscopic 3D, because you need to be able to tell how far away the incoming ball is, and the PlayStation VR handles that well. “Danger Ball is basically first-person Pong for the VR era, and controlling your paddle by looking where you want it to go works great. But it’s over in less than two hours, and there’s no reason I’d want to play it again. The best thing about it is launching yourself between platforms, which I enjoyed for the sensation of movement as you trigger a leap to a pre-designated spot, and for the ability to double-jump and change directions mid-air.

Enemy variety is weak – only three aliens, counting the final boss, and a stationary turret – and there are only two weapons including a gravity gun, so combat is bland. Scavengers Odyssey, for instance, is a short and linear first-person shooter where you use the DualShock 4 to pilot a mech suit through a story of uninteresting sci-fi mysticism.

There's some replay value in setting high scores on there, which is good, because that's about all the replay value that PlayStation VR Worlds has to offer. Free of the need to make things fit into a serious story, these ranges have a lot more fun with the idea: they throw in elements like friendly targets and paint cans moving along tracks that you have to shoot at the right time to knock them into appropriately colored bins. After the hour-long story’s done there’s a set of three shooting gallery levels with leaderboards to play on. They’re well acted and impressively animated as they argue and posture, and though I didn't have enough time to get attached to them as characters in the short running time I enjoyed the sense of presence they gave off when sitting across the table from me asking for a light for their cigar or threatening me in a subway service station. “Surrounding the gunfights, The London Heist is dressed up with impressive cinematic monologs from a pair of highly detailed gangster characters.

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