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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.1 hrs on record
Posted: 16 Jan, 2020 @ 12:08pm
Updated: 16 Jan, 2020 @ 12:10pm

I have played countless VR titles and I just do not find this game fun to play. The trailers are great but trailers are a showcase of the best moments in game right after the other. in reality this game is not anywhere as fun to play. It is a slow boring slog.

It is long and tedious without much going on. You can see they went for the Half-life and Portal style. The atmosphere seems like Portal behind the scenes test environment and it has a heavy reliance on models taken from half-life like crates and crowbar and many ideas stolen from those series. Like a headcrab that is now a virtual headcrab but looks like a combine. Turrets utilized like in Portal and HL. And while these are cool aspects the game itself lacks in delivering them.

They chose realistic full body physics in this game. What that means is NAUSEA. Now I own HTC vive and PSVR. I can be in VR for hours without nausea and I absolutely enjoy Superhot, Asgard's Wrath (played and beaten in revive), Gorn, Raw Data, Wildlands, Lightblade and Beat Saber, Farpoint and that other system shock rogue like game on PSVR, although I have played many many more. And never do I suffer from nausea in any of them no matter for how long I play.

This game will give you nausea because full body physics in VR like in Blade and Sorcery are a bad idea. Because in order not to feel nausea your body must be fooled that it is going where the eye sees. it is the reason why you can get nausea from playing seated and not moving or if you fall down in VR because you are actually not falling and the brain doesn't get why. With full body physics your hands and body and head will not move through objects and walls. While it seems cool on paper it is a bad design choice for VR game because you will often find yourself stuck due to or impaled on an object. You real body and eye coordination will expect you to have moved forward but the game doesn't let you making you feel nausea. In many games you can go through walls because of that and peek through doors etc. Here you cannot do that but if you accidentally run into a wall prepare for nausea to start building up over time. And there are just so many objects to get stuck on that you will constantly fool your eyes and brain and will end up feeling bad over time. Other games do not have these physics that is why they do not give nausea even if you fly like spiderman in Wildlands.

I suggest Superhot isntead of this, and Asgards' Wrath which are work on HTC vive with revive and work very good. Also Stormland. If you are looking for non vr experience play original Half-life with Brutal mod or Portal series.

This game is pretty bad, I regret buying it but it is too late to refund as it has been more than 14 days and I got winter sale steam rewards for it.

Runs fine, 2080 gtx 64 gb ram ryzen 3900x 12core
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