A pretty good VR shooter. It tries to elevate it to AAA quality, and it does a pretty decent job of this, good production value, fun little side things to help it feel like a fuller experience, a decent soundtrack. It executes a fairly standard "london crime" story pretty well too. The biggest downfall is its platform.
Like other exclusive games for PSVR, Sony pumps a ton of money into it well before they have put out an effectively tracked device. Your hands fly off in random directions, no matter how ideal of a setup it is. It might be better on their Aim or ps4 controller. The Move, which seems like it would be the best for this game, can hardly stay put to the point that I would say all except maybe a couple of my failures in the game were due to being unable to position them for a reload or the gun being totally thrown off when requiring to shoot from the side. Or flying off a railing while both hands firmly gripped on in front of me. Or the gun barrel being way past a friendly NPC's body but still shooting them due to it glitching out and flying back 12 feet. A real shame because there's some great stuff in this, and it is unlikely to come to another platform. Maybe psvr2 will fix it.
One great thing it did in the Worlds demo (that was expanded on for this) is still very fun. A vape or a cigar you pick up in the world will listen to the mic for you to inhale or exhale, adding to the immersion, along with a couple fun collectables to play with.
The dialogue is usually pretty competent if not extremely interesting, but sometimes it is pretty uninspired. It doesn't go full tilt with utilizing some of the advantages of VR, but it does dip its toes in with some interesting sequences in an art gallery and a dream sequence, so I applaud it for that.
The game alone, probably would be a 3.5 star experience. The VR experience with the poor tracking is probably a 1.5.
Like other exclusive games for PSVR, Sony pumps a ton of money into it well before they have put out an effectively tracked device. Your hands fly off in random directions, no matter how ideal of a setup it is. It might be better on their Aim or ps4 controller. The Move, which seems like it would be the best for this game, can hardly stay put to the point that I would say all except maybe a couple of my failures in the game were due to being unable to position them for a reload or the gun being totally thrown off when requiring to shoot from the side. Or flying off a railing while both hands firmly gripped on in front of me. Or the gun barrel being way past a friendly NPC's body but still shooting them due to it glitching out and flying back 12 feet. A real shame because there's some great stuff in this, and it is unlikely to come to another platform. Maybe psvr2 will fix it.
One great thing it did in the Worlds demo (that was expanded on for this) is still very fun. A vape or a cigar you pick up in the world will listen to the mic for you to inhale or exhale, adding to the immersion, along with a couple fun collectables to play with.
The dialogue is usually pretty competent if not extremely interesting, but sometimes it is pretty uninspired. It doesn't go full tilt with utilizing some of the advantages of VR, but it does dip its toes in with some interesting sequences in an art gallery and a dream sequence, so I applaud it for that.
The game alone, probably would be a 3.5 star experience. The VR experience with the poor tracking is probably a 1.5.