System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £14.99
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Real-time strategy (RTS)
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers, Gamepad
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: Yes
Age Rating: PG
Description: AirMech Command is the definitive Action/RTS experience in VR. With all new tactical room-space controls AND ground-level flight controls, you can command troops and units from orbit, or grab the stick and pilot your AirMech directly. Play Solo, Co-Op, or PVP with dozens of ‘Mechs, customizable armies, and unlockable vanity items.
Every map is a new challenge, whether running missions to unlock new ‘Mechs, or battling your friends. Capture bases to take more ground. Build tanks, turrets, and soldiers then grab and deploy them with cutting edge hand controls that make RTS gameplay smoother than ever. With Vive room-space, you’re right in the middle of the action.
Review: AirMech is an overhead / VR strategy game that puts you in command of a massive transforming robot. The idea is to dominate the battlefield and capture them enemies bases. But you are not alone you have various weapons and attack squads to work with. Very similar in style to Herzog Zwei it is a game that requires you to think strategically about everything, including your own transforming robot and what, when and where to attack. With some great single play missions, some fantastic multiplayer elements all wrapped in some great graphics that at times can look really realistic when you lean into them thus us a game that will keep you amused for a long time.
If there is one type of game that really benefits the most from virtual reality it has to be strategy games. You once played them with a top-down view, then they become more and more 3D and now in VR, strategy games look like handcrafted pieces of an army set that you can reach out and grab and place where you want on the table. Of course, it is a lot more complicated than that, but being able to overlook the battle and that feeling of immersion you get from a god-like view is something only VR can offer. AirMech: Command will remain one of the best VR strategy games for a long time to come and a must-see if you are a fan of the genre.
