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In many ways, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood succeeds despite itself.
Tumble VR improves upon the original Tumble with all manner of new puzzles and a cute versus mode.
Putting to rest any qualms about the World War I setting, Battlefield 1 is a true Battlefield game with everything you’ve come expect from the franchise.
Virtual reality is an incredibly exciting technology. Unfortunately, The Assembly follows safely along the path of other VR games with a functional, but absolutely cumbersome, movement scheme. The good thing about this is it isn’t likely to get players motion sick. On the other hand, it’s unwieldy and undesirable when compared to regular old adventure/exploration gameplay. The storyline and characters prove intriguing, but gameplay fails to support them. As it currently stands, playing The Assembly in VR simply made me yearn to jump to the non-VR version instead. That’s not what gamers should be thinking in the midst of the PSVR launch.
When you get down to it, the only major flaw of Event[0] is that there isn’t enough of it.
With a sports-like feel dripping from its commentary and team-based play, RIGS is a fantastic first-person shooter that works in either short bursts or for longer play sessions when you get in the zone.
Driveclub VR is an outstanding showcase for PlayStation VR. As the lone racing game available for it, it stands atop a short mountain — but its core foundation being so well-crafted bodes well for it working as a showpiece for quite some time. Anyone who loved the original game should check it out, while those who always wondered what was so good about it will find out in the best way possible by experiencing it in VR.
Blue Revolver is a shooter that meets its audience more than halfway.
Super Stardust Ultra VR does everything that had made the series work before and expands on it with a new cockpit view.
Bound brings players into a divine fantasy setting for only a few hours, but shows third person platforming is possible in VR.
It’s impossible to deny the allure of Rez Infinite.
100ft Robot Golf is fun to play, but it’s not all due to the core gameplay — the announcers add a ton of personality.
As a concept, Hatsune Miku: VR Future Live: 1st Stage is a solid buy.
Harmonia is a bite-sized taste of what VisualArts can do with the visual novel genre.
Batman: Arkham VR doesn’t do as much as prior Arkham games — but what it does is done exceptionally well.
Despite the goodwill that Coatsink may have gathered with the release of Gang Beasts, Shu is still likely to have a hard time making itself heard not only among its own genre, but among games in general, considering the crowded time period it has been released in.
For a game with a limited concept, Headmaster does succeed nicely. It sets out to do two things — providing a soccer-style game that shows VR can work with sports-themed games and throw that concept a curveball with some dark comedy. It succeeds at doing very little, and while that may sound like we’re damning it with faint praise, it really is a lot of fun to play. It’s probably the best party-style game of the launch lineup and something that any potential VR owner with a large circle of friends will want to pick up.
Even with this issue, it only slightly dampens the experience because Princess Maker 2 Refine is just that good. The simulation gameplay is utterly engrossing as you work to help your daughter down a wide variety of paths.
Gurumin not only offers a great challenge, but makes players want to go back and find every last hidden secret and collectible.
Putting aside the technical complaints, Shadow Warrior 2 is legitimately one of the best shooters of 2016 thus far.