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The new Star Wars game, Star Wars: Beyond Victory, was released this week and immediately divided audiences. At the time of publication, the game has a Metacritic score of 54, which is quite modest for the Star Wars franchise.
Critics gave the game a lukewarm reception, but players were much more favorable: the user rating is 4.2 out of 5, which is roughly equivalent to an 82 on the Metacritic scale.
Built from the ground up exclusively for the Meta Quest 3 and 3S, Beyond Victory immerses you in an original story set during the reign of the Empire. It combines the thrilling world of podracing with a captivating narrative and mixed reality gameplay. The cast includes LEGO Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past stars Bobby Moynihan, Fin Argus (Queer as Folk), and Lilimar Hernandez (Inside Out 2), as well as two voice actors from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace: Lewis MacLeod, reprising his role as Sebulba from Episode I, and Greg Proops, reprising his role as Foad.
Beyond Victory is experimental and niche, but interesting in its own way, aimed primarily at VR enthusiasts and Star Wars fans ready for new ways to interact with their beloved universe. For everyone else, it’s more of a curious, if controversial, experiment by Lucasfilm in mixed reality.
