It gives you all of the controls you need, including independent movement and aiming ability, and - crucially - it makes you feel like you’re holding a Super Shotgun. Sony’s abstract gun-styled peripheral doesn’t have a lot of support, but it might as well have been made for this version of Doom 3. Really, though, the only way to play Doom 3: VR Edition is the PlayStation VR Aim Controller. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge You can play with a regular DualShock controller, which works reasonably well, but there’s no option for the Move motion controllers - probably for the better. It does help that the PSVR is generally geared around seated experiences, given that it’s likely to be used in living rooms. I didn’t have issues with nausea myself, though Doom 3: VR Edition is definitely on the intense side of VR games. Doom 3: VR Edition forces you to be comfortable with analog stick movement and its affordances designed to ward off nausea, like a vignette that limits field of view and the use of snap turning instead of free motion on the right stick.
The sprawling levels are designed to be navigated quickly, and they wouldn’t really work with typical solutions for VR locomotion like teleportation.
That said, this is still an old-school PC first-person shooter at its heart. (Id did adapt the reboot into a separate game called Doom VFR in 2017, but it suffered from awkward controls and didn’t play anything like the original.) VR is often all about atmosphere, and Doom 3 has plenty, even 17 years on. In theory, this makes Doom 3 a much better fit for VR than the more recent Doom games, which are based around frenetic combat that’s difficult enough to keep track of on a regular monitor. VR is often all about atmosphere, and ‘Doom 3’ has plenty
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