C-Smash VRS: New Dimension, a flat screen version of the currently available virtual reality game C-Smash VRS, will launch for PlayStation 5 on September 26 as a fee update to the existing PlayStation VR2 version of the game, publisher RapidEyeMovers and developer Wolf & Wood announced. It will also be playable at BitSummit Drift in Kyoto from July 19 to 21.
“I’m excited to be returning to Kyoto,” says RapidEyeMovers director Jorg Tittel. “It feels like a homecoming. We first reimagined SEGA‘s Dreamcast and arcade classic Cosmic Smash for VR and versus gameplay and showcased it at BitSummit 2023. Now we’re returning to the game’s roots and native Japan. I look forward to making our labor of love available to millions of PS5 players in late summer.”
Wolf & Wood creative director Ryan Bousfield added, “It is exciting to know our first big, preview of C-Smash VRS: New Dimension is going to give players a sample of what we have been working on. I hope New Dimension will invoke the feeling and pure playability of the original Cosmic Smash and other similar games from that era.”
Here is an overview of the game, via RapidEyeMovers:
Built on top of its PlayStation VR2 predecessor, C-Smash VRS New Dimension comes to PlayStation 5 as a third-person futuristic sports action title, with tons of new gameplay mechanics, animations and visual upgrades, as well as revolutionary hybrid online play between PlayStation 5 and PlayStation VR2 players.
Players will be able to choose how they want to play the game—whether it’s from the comfort of their couch, handheld on PlayStation Portal, or fully immersed in PS VR2 – and play across screens and headsets: PlayStation 5-versus-PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5-versus-PlayStation VR2, or PlayStation VR2-versus-PlayStation VR2.
First released as a PlayStation VR2 launch window title, followed by Meta Quest and Pico in April 2024, C-Smash VRS has continued expanding at an astonishing pace, with new updates and additions, including the brand-new, mega popular “Time Attack” mode.
Developed by Wolf & Wood and produced by RapidEyeMovers, C-Smash VRS: New Dimension will be a free PlayStation 5 upgrade for all PlayStation VR2 owners to the PlayStation 5 game. New PlayStation 5 owners of C-Smash VRS: New Dimension will receive the PlayStation VR2 version for free, as well.
Combining a low-gravity form of squash with timed block-breaking challenges, C-Smash VRS: New Dimension brings together the very best of racket sports and timeless action puzzle gameplay. Dashing, jumping, and diving from one side to the other, players perform intense shots and power smashes in intense levels across time and space, accompanied by amazing music.
Players can either play alone or forge a cosmic connection with a friend, exploring a variety of online versus modes including Journey, Infinity mode, Co-Op, Time Attack and more—and, for the first time in a sports game, have virtual reality players on PlayStation VR2 compete with non-VR players on PlayStation 5.
Original tracks by Ken Ishii (Rez Infinite) and synth master Danalogue (front man of The Comet is Coming and Soccer 96)—as well as UNKLE—bring a pulse to the game’s striking environments.
Watch a new trailer below.