C-Smash VRS Announced for Meta Quest 2 & 3 [IGN]

C-Smash VRS, the VR reimagination of the iconic Sega Dreamcast and Arcade game Cosmic Smash, is coming to Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and PICO 4 headsets, publisher RapidEyeMovers and developer Wolf & Wood announced today.

RapidEyeMovers revealed that C-Smash will arrive on these new headsets on April 4, 2024. In addition to new ports of the game, when the ports are released, players across all four platforms will access the Global Leaderboards, adding additional competition as competitive players aim to take the top spots. Cross-platform multiplayer is also on the roadmap, but a release date has yet to be announced.

“Our game uniquely does something that I don’t think other Quest games do to this degree,” founder of RapidEyeMovers and Director and publisher of C-Smash VRS Jorg Tittel said in an interview with IGN. “You’re not hammed in. It’s a sports game, but it’s a physical game; it’s also social. You can play it either alone or one-on-one with another player, and you’re full body so your legs and arms, you know everything is in there, you really feel at one with it, which is really gorgeous.”

C-Smash VRS was first released last year exclusively on the PlayStation VR2. The game is inspired by the 2001 arcade sports title Cosmic Smash, a futuristic-esque 3D single-player game where players play Squash. C-Smash VRS marked the first time US players had the chance to experience the game’s charm that inspired it, as Cosmic Smash never made it to the United States audience when it was initially released in the early 2000s.

Alongside fast-paced gameplay that joins a growing list of Quest games aimed at making its users more active in body movement, C-Smash VRS includes a sound that our sister site PCMag praised, with the review describing the soundtrack as something “pulled straight from an underground rave.”

C-Smash VRS is one of many revivals of widely popular Sega IPs released recently. C-Smash’s initial release date came when Sega revived some of its older IPs for modern audiences. In addition to new games in franchises, including Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, and Golden Axe, other properties recently received either remakes or new entries, including The House of the Dead and Streets of Rage.

Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster.