Resident Evil Village’s VR mode will launch alongside Sony’s PSVR2 as a free update

I think Lady Dimitrescu will be very scary in VR. | Image: Capcom

Resident Evil Village’s VR mode will be available on the PlayStation VR 2 the same date Sony’s new VR hardware launches in February, Capcom announced on Wednesday. And even better, it’s being added as a free update for owners of the game.

You’ll be able to play the game’s entire campaign in VR, according to a PlayStation blog post from Capcom’s Kanda Tsuyoshi. You’ll be able to use the PSVR2’s new Sense controllers to “feel the vibration, recoil, and resistance as you interact with objects in the world and fire weapons,” Tsuyoshi says.

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Dual-wielding will (hopefully) make the game a little less frightening.

In combat, the Sense controllers “enable intuitive movements like putting your arms up to...

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