A launch title for the Playstation VR 2, Call of the Mountain is a short but sweet experience that takes you back to the world of Horizon, this time in VR! It plays well, and looks amazing. A must try for anyone with the VR headset.

Horizon VR: Call of the Mountain

Technically this is a climbing game, but it is set in the world of Horizon, so you get to fight machines as well every once in a while. And boy do they look terrifying in VR!

Walking and climbing experience also is quite intuitive, and the game does a good job of making you feel like you are actually scaling a cliff. The sense controllers do work well here, with only a few occasional hiccups.

Foveated rendering is at full play here, part you look at will be rendered at full resolution, and parts away have lower pixel counts to aid with performance. In practice you don't notice it, but they're quite visible in the screenshots.

Don't look down. Don't look down. Don't look down!

Aloy looks so tiny! She's a beast!

Yay, some drums! Love these "VR Experience" test easter-eggs thrown here and there.

Tickle tickle!

But seriously Horizon team, why did you think a protagonist who keeps blabbering about his life, objectives and stuff is a good idea. Had to turn down the VO volume to 10% to not get annoyed by him heh.

Accessibility options are top notch again, as expected from Sony first party titles.

Tunnel vision? Check.

Nope, just nope. Heckin watchers are already so massive. They looked so tiny in the base game.

Holy crap, this was intense! And Aloy just breezes through it like it's nothing. My arms hurt just shooting virtual arrows!

Carin time! Fun.

So glad we are not fighting those things in this game.

You can paint as well, huehuehue.

How do you top a terrifying Thunderjaw? With a Stormbird of course!

Shocking revelations from the Stormbird.

Fireclaw is dummy thicc!

The view makes the tiring "workout like" climbs worth it.

Screenshots cannot tell how beautiful it actually looks. Sure, it's more "pixelated" than the Apple vision headset, but for a seventh the price, the VR2 is a pretty good deal. And the Vision does not even come with a precision controller!

The game looks amazing, and the sense of scale is just mind-blowing. The machines look massive, and the world is truly beautiful. Recommended for the VR2 headset, but not a driver to purchase the headset itself.