Your left controller functions as your movement control, letting you slow down time to hop from place to place, while the right controller handles both your weapon wheel and combat functions.

Doom VFR tries to circumvent VR’s locomotion issue by giving you a teleporter function, but at the end of the day, this mini-campaign feels like a hobbled stroll through an amusement park instead of the frenzied, fantastic fight-or-die dance that makes Doom so special.Ī series of combat arenas spread over four hours, VFR puts you in the shoes of a mostly-dead scientist who talks way too much as he tries to shut down a portal to hell with a combat suit he’s piloting from beyond the grave. This creates an interesting problem since virtual reality isn’t made for fast speed due to its ability to make people nauseated. If you take either of those things out of the equation, what you have isn’t id Software’s infamous shooter but something lesser. When I think of Doom, two things come to mind: its colorful, over-the-top violence and its ridiculous speed.

Doom shut down the portal