‘Deadpool VR’ Trailer Has Neil Patrick Harris Voice the New Merc With a Mouth!! Check It Out!!

All of your dreams of being inside Deadpool are about to come true — in VR. During Geoff Keighley‘s annual Summer Games Fest presentation, Marvel Entertainment kept things R-rated with a new Meta Quest title that lets fans become the Merc with a Mouth with all the foul-mouthed wisecracking and violence that entails. The announcement came with a red-band trailer that captures the same comedic tone of the Ryan Reynolds movies, complete with some serious fourth-wall breaking, chimichangas, and a killer 80s jam in Taylor Dayne‘s “Tell It to My Heart.” The only difference is that How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris is behind the wheel as Wade Wilson this time around. There is no exact release date yet, but it’ll be available sometime later this year.

The trailer opens with Harris‘s Deadpool welcoming viewers to “gaming’s first quintuple A tropical farming sim experience” before he promptly runs over a soldier with his car. Deadpool VR features a mix of gunplay and parkour, both of which are shown off in action sequences that pit the merc against “fascists,” alien creatures, and other villains, both “iconic and not-so-iconic.” The freedom of VR means you don’t just have to use Deadpool’s pistols, though. His swords can be used to deflect bullets and slice enemies, or players can simply grab their foes and shove them face-first into a helicopter’s spinning blades, smash their heads into counters, or toss them into the mouth of a waiting monster. With Deadpool’s healing factor and expandability, you don’t have to worry too much about health either, as his arms can regrow right in front of your eyes. The antihero, naturally, has a lot to say about all of it in the trailer, and he has some complaints to Marvel about why he couldn’t get a game with Insomniac like Spider-Man.

They may not be Insomniac, but Deadpool VR is being helmed by Twisted Pixel, the team behind games like ‘Splosion Man and Comic Jumper, as well as more recent VR titles like Path of the Warrior and the spy thriller, Defector. Their take on the Merc with a Mouth involves an entirely new story, as Deadpool is pulled through a portal to the mysterious Mojo World. Upon his arrival, he immediately sees an opportunity to get filthy rich that sounds too good to be true. Without reading the fine print, he signs a dodgy contract, and then it’s off to locations around the Marvel universe to take out some enemies who he says really deserve the horrors players will put them through.

‘Deadpool VR’ Is the Latest Addition to Marvel’s Exciting Late of Upcoming Games

Deadpool has technically gotten his own video game before in 2013, but revisiting him in the medium now is a no-brainer after Deadpool & Wolverine grossed over $1.3 billion worldwide last year. His VR adventure joins a lengthy slate of superhero games set to hit store shelves over the next few years. Other than Deadpool VR, the most recently revealed was Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, a new 2D fighting game featuring Captain America, Iron Man, Doctor Doom, Ms. Marvel, Ghost Rider, and more gorgeously animated by Dragon Ball FighterZ developers Arc System Works and due out next year. Also on the docket is the throwback beat ’em up Marvel Cosmic Invasion this year, Skydance Media‘s Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra in 2026, and games starring Iron Man, Wolverine, and Blade from EA, Insomniac, and Arkane, respectively, among other things.