MGM Resorts International has teamed up with Australia-based VR game maker Zero Latency to bring three "free-roaming” social gaming experiences to the Level Up lounge starting September 8. The MGM Grand will become the seventh US. location to host Zero Latency games.
The Zombie Survival and Singularity games will require teams to kill zombies and robots as the they roam through what appears to be buildings and streets. Engineerum will require a team to solve physics puzzles as they move along a path in space.
The games differ from most VR experiences on the market because they are social, competitive and played over a wide-ranging space, said Andre Lawless, a US marketing representative at Zero Latency.
Many VR experiences on the market are made for individual players, limit their movement and are passive in nature. The Zero Latency games at the MGM Grand will be 30 minutes long, include up to eight players and cost US$50 a person.
Alanah Pearce, an Australian YouTube blogger and a self-proclaimed VR fan, last year posted her review of the Zombie Survival game to her 113,000 subscribers. She described the game as basic and the graphics as grainy, but she said the experience was nonetheless "epic.”
Source: GMB / Review Journal
