Bravo Team

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Bravo Team
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Developer(s) Supermassive Games
Publisher(s) Sony Interactive Entertainment
Platform(s) PlayStation 4
ReleaseMarch 6, 2018
Genre(s) First-person shooter
Mode(s) Single-player

Bravo Team is a video game developed by Supermassive Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation 4 and its virtual reality headset PlayStation VR.

Contents

Gameplay

Development

Bravo Team was developed by Supermassive Games. It was announced for PlayStation VR along with The Inpatient . [1] Development for the game lasted 13 months. [2] Originally planned for release on December 5, 2017, it was delayed for March 6th, 2018. [3]

Reception

Bravo Team debuted at number three in the UK sales charts for the week of March 10, 2018. [8]

Bravo Team received negative reception from video game critics. Eurogamer's Ian Higton called the game "an astonishingly bad VR shooter from a team that should know better". [9]

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References

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