It’s VR Star Wars.

Yes VR Star Wars.

I love its retro-futurist junkpunk style, the rusty spaceships, dusty planets, and fusty aliens.

Crossing lightsabers with Darth Vader in Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series

But the galaxy far, far away can be experienced in VR in more fragmentary form.

], now seems an opportune time to explore the franchise’s interactive Outer Rim.

So sit down beside me and lock in the auxiliary power as we make the jump to Hyp-VR space.

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As both a VR experience and a Star Wars game, Vader Immortal is aggressively fine.

The story is decent, lodged in that perennially useful gap between episodes 3 and 4.

Compared to your flatscreen jedi experiences, it’s very basic.

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Tales From The Galaxy’s Edge is both more and less of a game than Vader Immortal.

Which see you step into the shoes of a Bounty Hunter and a Jedi in training.

They’re fun aside, but it nonetheless feels like Galaxy’s Edge lacks something.

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It essentially doubles the length of the base game, and allows its ideas greater room to breathe.

Cruising through a rebel fleet and being able to appreciate the true size of the different spaceships is fantastic.

And when the fighting kicks off, oh man.

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Team Beef’s VR mod is an impressive conversion.

Accessing it is a tad tricky, however.

Team Beef is planning to extent support to other headsets farther down the line.

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