Echo Combat lets teams fight it out in a zero-g arena where they can hide behind cover.
Echo Combat lets teams fight it out in a zero-g arena where they can hide behind cover.
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Echo Combat hands-on — Oculus comes out a winner in zero-gravity shootout

Ready At Dawn Studios morphed the gameplay in two virtual reality games from last year, Lone Echo and the multiplayer Echo Arena, and turned them into a new multiplayer VR release, Echo Combat. This looks like a great decision, based on a preview demo that I played recently.

The game makes you hot and sweaty as you play 5-on-5 battles in zero gravity, and it makes me optimistic about the potential of VR to deliver unique gaming experiences that we can’t get any other way. That’s important, as VR isn’t doing as well as some projected it would, and this emerging tech needs to deliver more fun experiences like Echo Combat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.