Virtual reality is a tricky prospect in gaming. Some tout it as the future of the medium, but we’re still figuring out what VR is truly capable of. There’s still no unified rule set for most genres, with only a handful of agreed upon options supported across most games. Yet when it works, VR can be an amazing asset that vastly elevates a game, which is the case of EA Motive’s Star Wars: Squadrons.

I won’t mince words here: If you’re playing Squadrons with a flat monitor, you aren’t getting the experience as intended. I don’t just mean the immersive game feel of a TIE fighter rocketing around you while you dash across starfields. Rather, there are core utilities and niceties to playing the game in VR that no amount of a Freelook button can offer. That is impressive given Squadrons’ VR integration is, at first, seemingly minimal.

All you can do is poke your head around freely, leaning and turning as you would in a cockpit. Yet from this simple wrinkle, Star Wars: Squadrons goes from a decent dogfighting game to one of the best you’ll play this year. First of all, with VR, you can actually adjust your position in the cockpit, which is incredibly handy as the default positioning for players in flat mode is oddly leaned back, letting your tactical readouts own close to half the screen real estate, even when parts of it aren’t all that necessary. 

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CREED: RISE TO GLORY - Sony PlayStation 4 - VR REQUIRED - MGM - PS4 Video Game

Creed: Rise to Glory is a virtual reality boxing video game. It was released in 2018, by Survios. The game is based on the Rocky franchise. The game is compatible with both HTC Vive and Oculus Rift for Microsoft Windows, the Oculus Quest and with the PlayStation VR for PlayStation 4. An updated version titled Creed: Rise to Glory – Championship Edition was released on April 4, 2023 for all platforms.