Jetborne Racing (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Bronze Award

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR
Price at Time Of Review: £7.19
Comfort Rating: Red
Genre: Racing, Flight Simulator
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: Yes
Age Rating: PG

 

Description: Jetborne Racing is an online multiplayer air racing game from the creator of VTOL VR. Pilot a high performance jet aircraft through challenging courses in a race to the finish. Fly in VR (recommended) or on desktop with either virtual or physical HOTAS controls. Compete in up to 8-player online races or run hot laps to rank in global lap-time leaderboards. Get immersed in the heart-pounding sensation of flying over Mach 1 through tight and technical racecourses. Do you have what it takes for a podium position?

Review: While we have seen this style of racing game many times before with ‘Jetborne Racing’ you do get features that have not. From the cockpit view for us VR users to the machine gun turret gunners of the multiplayer mode, this game tries to make thing as exciting as it can but sadly does fall a little short of being so. With only a “hot lap” feature for us single players and a very quiet online mode this game doesn’t have enough to even take off, let alone be worth the £7.19 price tag. If you can find some friends to play with this might be worth a look, but for us single players I would try and wait for a really good sale before trying it. This could have easily been a much better game, but single players do get pretty much ignored.