For a second consecutive year, Oculus Studios has delivered a superhero game as its flagship VR experience for the fall. Last year it was Batman: Arkham Shadow and this year it’s Marvel’s Deadpool VR. The popular Marvel character feels right at home in VR, even if experience is bogged down by the woes of the hardware. Maximum effort Marvel’s Deadpool VR finds the titular antihero on a mission for S. H. I. E. L. D. when he’s forcefully brought in by the villain Mojo to capture other villains for his upcoming reality TV show. It’s the sort of wacky plot synopsis that only Deadpool could get away with. As Deadpool jumps into different areas of the universe, he does battle with villains like Lady Deathstrike and Mephisto. There’s a sense of life to the world of Deadpool VR. Developer Twisted Pixel brings in a lot of lesser-known characters to fill out the roster, which I always appreciate in a game like this. That combined with the various locations really makes it feel like you’re exploring an untouched corner of the Marvel universe. Of course, this is a Deadpool game, and it does not skimp out on the humor and fourth wall breaking. Deadpool is constantly acknowledging the fact that he’s in a video game, that it’s VR, and that he’s being controlled by a human player. He references characters not just from the Marvel pantheon, but pop culture as a whole. I was usually on board with Deadpool’s humor, but it’s a reality of comedy that when you’re constantly firing off jokes, you’re going to have some misses. It also didn’t help that Neil Patrick Harris, who plays Wade Wilson, feels like he’s doing a Ryan Reynolds impersonation most of the time. Your mileage will vary greatly based on how much you love to hear Deadpool crack jokes about anything and everything happening around him. I wore my red pants today VR is a platform where gameplay has to come first, and Deadpool VR provides an excellent playground for chaos. Wade Wilson is equipped with pistols, swords, bombs, and a grappler that he can use in tandem to kill enemies in a plethora of ways. My personal favorite was throwing his swords like daggers, which would then pin enemies to a nearby wall if they were close enough. You can also grab automatic weapons and rifles from defeated enemies or various weapon caches around the world. I’m lucky enough that I don’t struggle with VR sickness, but if you do, Deadpool VR has three settings for you to customize your experience. These settings will tweak locomotion and on-screen movement so that you’re not getting queasy as Wade Wilson falls from great heights or propels himself up using the grapple gun. After playing enough Deadpool VR, you’ll notice that the majority of encounters boil down to you being stuck in a room as waves of enemies enter until you can defeat them all and move on. Combat is fun, but this setup can feel repetitive after a while. There were a few instances where I caught myself hoping that I had just finished the last wave of enemies before I could progress, which isn’t how I should feel in an action game. Still, if you just want to slice some heads, this game should be on your radar. The devs don’t hold back on the blood and gore; you can decapitate and dismember enemies as you fight through hordes of them. Enemies can also destroy your limbs, and you’ll have to wait as Wade’s regenerative powers form baby limbs that grow into adult size. Superhero landing Marvel’s Deadpool VR doesn’t hit the immersive highs as Batman: Arkham Shadows did last year, but it’s still a fun superhero romp from Oculus Studios. The developers at Twisted Pixel make great use of the Deadpool IP, and there’s no shortage of havoc to wreak if you’re just looking for an action-heavy VR experience. This review is based on a code provided by the publisher, played on Meta Quest 3. Marvel’s Deadpool VR is available now for $49. 99 on Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S.
https://www.shacknews.com/article/146899/marvels-deadpool-vr-review-score
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Psyops On The Sunday Shows!
Part of keeping up with the news—and then watching the Sunday shows—is that you start to see the propaganda code embedded in our political matrix. Follow us as we do our best impersonation of Lawrence Fishburne’s Morpheus and “show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” This week, at least.
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### Scott Bessent
We’ve already covered some of the most ridiculously idiotic things Bessent said on ABC’s *This Week* [here](#), so we’re going to focus on his other two Sunday show appearances.
On NBC’s *Meet The Press*, host Kristen Welker pressed Bessent on the new 10 percent tariffs Donald Trump announced this week. The tariffs followed Ontario airing an ad featuring real 1987 footage of Ronald Reagan explaining why tariffs are bad—a move that apparently hurt Trump’s feelings.
Bessent’s defense was neither compelling nor especially sensible.
**BESSENT:** “Well, Kristen, let’s—let’s think about this. This is a kind of propaganda against U.S. citizens. You know, it’s psyops.”
Is it, though? Because if playing footage of and quoting Republicans being hypocritical liars counts as “psyops,” this very weekly rundown would qualify as an MKUltra program.
Welker also asked Bessent for details on whether these new Canadian tariffs would apply to all goods or only select items, but he did not know.
Welker then launched some “psyops” of her own by playing a clip of Trump promising to bring the price of groceries “way down.” After listing several items like coffee, beef, and bacon whose prices are actually rising, Bessent got a bit defensive and tried to shift the goalposts.
**BESSENT:** “Kristen, it’s unfortunate—as much as I like you—you like to cherrypick. You know, when we came in, it was ‘egg-flation, egg-flation, egg-flation.’ You know, egg prices are down.”
Bessent took a similar tone with a similar question on CBS’s *Face The Nation* when host Margaret Brennan pressed him. He tried the classic spouse’s tactic when losing an argument:
**BESSENT:** “You listed the things that are up, but we’re seeing plenty of things that are down. Why does everyone always point out the things they suck at instead of the things they’re so great at, Margaret?”
Back on *Meet The Press*, before the interview ended, Bessent was asked about the destruction of the East Wing of the White House to make way for Trump’s gaudy ballroom. Welker played a clip of Trump promising that they would not touch the original White House structure, then asked why Trump didn’t tell the public his real intentions.
While Bessent recycled the usual talking points and false equivalences we’ve all heard about previous White House renovations, he added a new one we had to note.
**BESSENT:** “Well, again, I think this was a judgment call on the president. The president is a master builder. And I don’t know. I assume that maybe parts of the East Wing could have been asbestos, could have been mold, could have not fit with the design.”
A MASTER BUILDER! Here is a video of Trump loving asbestos—while you catch your breath laughing at the suggestion that he is a MASTER BUILDER.
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### Arnold Schwarzenegger
Former California Republican governor and aging Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared on CNN’s *State of the Union* to criticize California’s redistricting effort.
Current California Governor Gavin Newsom is leading an effort to redraw the state’s congressional maps after Texas redrew its maps to steal five Democratic House seats, giving Trump and the GOP even more power.
While Schwarzenegger’s reasoning sounds fair, it strikes us as a bit Pollyanna-ish.
**SCHWARZENEGGER:**
“Texas started it. They did something terribly wrong. And then, all of a sudden, California says, well, then we have to do something terribly wrong. And then now other states are jumping in. And now this is spreading like wildfire all over the country. […] The thing is that you cannot cheat your way out of it. What they should do is, what the Democrats should do is, they should outperform Trump.”
The problem with that, Governator, is that in many places it’s already rigged against Democrats, so that even when Democrats turn out more voters, Republicans still manage to gain seats!
Democrats have tried to pass voting rights and national fair redistricting laws, but you cannot get there if we are fighting with our fists while the GOP uses laser blasters.
If anyone should understand the need to improvise to defeat a stronger and more ruthless enemy, it should be the guy who took down a Predator.
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### Margaret Brennan
Speaking of gerrymandering, we conclude with Margaret Brennan on CBS’s *Face The Nation*, particularly the end of her interview with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
When Jeffries brought up the topic of gerrymandering and election denial, Brennan’s attempt to “both sides” the issue sounded less like CBS News and more like OAN.
**BRENNAN:**
“You said Democrats ‘there are no election deniers on our side of the aisle.’ You said that back in January. But recently you’ve been using the term ‘rigged elections’ in reference to the upcoming midterms. Democrats were appalled when President Trump used language like that. How do you justify using that now? Doesn’t that undermine faith for voters you need to show up?”
Ahem, no. Because voters can understand the difference between denying the results of a fair election and the GOP’s effort to change the rules to cheat and steal elections.
This “both sides” argument would be laughable if made by a terrible op-ed writer or some journalistically bankrupt outlet. Guess we didn’t have to wait long for the “Bari Weiss Effect” to be noticed at CBS News.
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