Narmy

Quite simply the best game ever made. An unchallenged masterpiece! Stop reading this now and go play it. TLOU has a deep and engaging story line, amazing and well developed characters supported by masterful acting and direction. Great game play, perfect atmosphere, haunting soundtrack, incredible ending. I've been playing games for decades and this is the most memorable and resounding achievement of the video games industry as a whole.

So this is just a shooter on rails right? Sure, but throw in a bit of horror, a bit of a rollercoaster experience and then mix it all up with well executed VR and what you end up with is a very enjoyable game for PSVR. I don't think this has the replayability worthy of a score higher than an 8, but if fully deserves its 8 due to the amount and quality of the content considering the purchase cost. I had a great time playing ROB and would highly recommend it to all PSVR owners.

I expected Tumble to be just about stacking blocks, but was surprised to find a few different modes such as measured explosions (try and blow a stack of blocks as far as possible with a limited number of bombs) and and laser light bounce off levels. For the price of entry this is well worth the money. The Tumble PSVR immersion is both cool and comfortable and the game has a real one-more-go factor about it. Recommended.

I had high hopes for Holoball. After all, a VR pong game seems like a good idea. I knew that whether this concept worked or not would come down to execution and unfortunately this on PSVR is just too rough to recommend. The first issue I encountered was that the game requires a large game area for a PSVR game and frankly I felt that my VR room and setup were being stretched to their limits. Some shot fails were directly attributable to this. Whilst the problem above could be resolved with a larger room setup, there is simply no way of avoiding the bugs. I had to restart the game several times due to it getting stuck into a buggy pattern, such as the CPU no longer responding mid game. As can be expected of VR Pong the gameplay is repetitive, however Holoball would still be worth a purchase if the physics of hitting a VR ball with a VR bat were actually spot on. Unfortunately I found them to be lacking. I'd repeatedly aimed in one direction only for the ball to go in another. There seemed to be a lack of accuracy that was the real let down here. Overall I played this for just over an hour and have never felt the need to go back to it. If the developers refine it a bit Holoball on PSVR could be worth a purchase, but in its current form it is better avoided.

I thought I'd give this a go as I liked the look of the blood cells in the trailer and thought the environment and gameplay could be interesting. Unfortunately this is one of the most repetitive games I've played in years. Floating around collecting small particles is ok for 5 minutes, but VEV uses the exact same gameplay mechanic for the entire game with essentially zero change. I somewhat enjoyed the first 5 minutes, I endured the following 55 minutes, I regretted purchasing it for all the minutes since.

Worlds is composed of 5 mini experienced/games. "Luge" is totally forgettable and "Ocean Descent" is basically an underwater experience that is fun, but only once. So what you're left with are three actual mini games. Dangerball: An excellent VR take on pong. Use your head to hit the ball back and try and get it past the other player. Often underrated, this game has hours of play in it. In the end it's just pong with style, but in my opinion this is well worth playing. Scavenger's Odyssey: first person shooter. I've not spent much time with this game as yet. The London Heist: Of all the VR experiences, this one is the one that reaches the highest highs. Whilst shortlived (you can finish the story mode in around 20 minutes) you'll definitely want to have a few more goes to really soak in the ambiance and skillfully orchestrated scenes of TLH. The attention to detail is spectacular and there are so many wow moments, such as when while smoking the cigar you exhale and see smoke coming from your mouth! Once you're sick of the story you can spend a long time in the shooting range levels and try to get a high score in the world wide leaderboard. Worlds is not overly long, with the only long term play options being Dangerball and The London Heist's shooting range. However given the relatively low price of entrance this is a game that all launch PSVR players should play.

(Hours played so far: 30) Battlezone is ruthless. It's frantic. It's exhilarating. The game starts off inside your tank looking at the game map, which is composed of hexagons. You move one hexagon at a time and must make your way to the Volcano, where the AI core is waiting for you to destroy it and if you do you'll win the game. You'll have to fight on almost each map hexagon and some of those battles are harder than others depending on the specific objective. As you battle through the map you earn points and can use them after each battle to upgrade your tank (shields, healing speed, etc.) or buy new weapons at supply stop hexagons. There is a significant tactical element to how you move on the map because the enemy gets stronger with each move and when their strength reaches a certain level the Nemesis (a super strong enemy tank) makes its appearance on the map. If you encounter the Nemesis you'll have to deal with that in addition to whatever else was going to try and kill you in that battle. Battlezone is a surprisingly addictive game. Single player is really quite good and if you finish the game you'll unlock new tanks and items. In multiplayer Battlezone really shines. Up to 4 player coop will give you 3 more buddies to help tackle the huge variety of machines out to get you. Stay close together and you can heal and revive each other and so can tackle much harder enemies. The multiplayer element adds another level of tactics to the game and there's nothing quite as satisfying as when you're part **** team. Maps are procedurally generated at random (or you can enter a "seed" manually should you want to play a map over and over), so there's a lot of replay value here. The graphics are really quite good. More functional than just pretty for prettiness sake, but they're still very intricate and varied. The VR is completely immersive and I never experienced any discomfort during my protracted games (I've played Battlezone for up to 3.5 hours in one sitting). The only downside to Battlezone is that it requires the player to give it a decent go. In this sense the demo hardly does it justice... You'll struggle at first as you get used to maneuvering your tank and use the HUD and information panels around you in the cockpit. You'll also need to experiment a bit to work out which weapons are best used in which circumstance. If you get over these initial hurdles, Battlezone will reward you with easily one of the most exciting VR experiences available within the stellar PSVR launch lineup. The game reaches a 7.5/10 in single player, however multiplayer is incredible, which is why I rate Battlezone at 9/10. A PSVR launch must buy.