Pistol Whip is an arcade developed by Cloudhead Games, released 7 November 2019 on PlayStation VR2, PlayStation VR, Meta Quest 2 and Oculus Quest.
What Pistol Whip is
Pistol Whip is an arcade game developed by Cloudhead Games and released in 2019. It is available on PlayStation VR2, PlayStation VR, Meta Quest 2, Oculus Quest, Oculus Rift, Oculus VR and SteamVR. It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Enter: the ultimate action hero. Pistol Whip is a physical action-rhythm game where film-inspired gunplay and blood-pumping beats collide. Blast, duck and dodge your way through fever dream Scenes, build unique rhythms in a ballet of bullets and claim glory on the leaderboards.
How it plays
It is played from a virtual reality perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Pistol Whip holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 93% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 18 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Pistol Whip launched on 7 November 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds and Persona 5 Royal. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds, Persona 5 Royal.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pistol Whip yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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