Overall it seems they did a fine job, the weapon handling is properly redone for VR… but it’s still not a native VR game, it’s not a full remake in VR.
For example, why still have the roundhouse kick in third person? It’s super clunky. why not replace that with a strong horizontal swing with the player’s arm? Just detect when the player does the gesture with his arms and then activate the same reaction to the close zombies, it would serve the same function, damaging and pushing back the zombies close to you.
I’d love it to be great, but… it all looks kind of pedestrian. Like you’re mainly sliding your hand around without a lot of finger involvement.
Obviously the hand tracking can’t do individual notes like a guitar controller can, so (from all the previews I’ve seen) you get a kind of lame ‘freestyle’ section during songs where you just waggle your fingers as fast as you can.
I want to see their equivalent of ‘Through the Fire and Flames’!
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Unplugged is pretty cool guys. It works pretty much as advertised and has more polish than I expected. That said, the hand tracking can still sometimes be weird (though I still love hand tracking with VR).
Also, if you play it, prepare yourself for some super cheesy FMV tutorials. You have been warned!
Wow. I’m not sure about those dinky sliders in place of analogue sticks but cameras on the controllers is fantastic - assuming they’re not draining the battery life too much. I guess they save battery by not powering LEDs but you’d think cameras take more juice.
I hope so, but are you sure? I thought that was a leaked video they were actually going to show at Connect in a couple days, so it seems weird to include non-finished hardware. Or is it some internal-only thing?
I bought Thrill of the Fight a couple days ago and I really enjoy it. Feels like a proper simulator, being able to literally dance around your opponent and hit him from the side or back of the head. I’ve been playing on easy so far so they aren’t that hard, but regardless, I’m winded and sweaty after a fight with enough rounds and feel it in my shoulders the next few days. I tried the Creed demo and while the graphics were more impressive, the stupid stamina gimmick and silliness about staying in sync with the character and running and whatever really made it feel gamey (but I guess I can see it being a good alternative if you don’t have the space for TofF. What’s interesting is that I’ve never been a fan of boxing or boxing games in general, but actually doing it makes all the difference… the same way I don’t follow sports at all, but love playing them IRL.
