System: HTC Vive & Oculus Rift Price at Time Of Review: £23.79 Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement) Genre: Interactive Experience Input: Tracked Motion Controllers, Keyboard & Mouse Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing, Room-Scale Multi-Player: No Age Rating: PG
Description: Take your opportunity as real Train Mechanic in VR. Find locomotives around game world that needs your help and repair them in one of 3 workshops localized in huge 25 km2 open world. You will be face all types of damages in all genres of trains: Diesel, Electric and even Old-School Steam units.
Review: It is clear from the word go that ‘Train Mechanic Simulator VR’ is a game shoehorned into being a VR game. From most the menus and options being on a 2D flat screen in front of you to the motion controllers never really interacting with anything past a point-n-click method. Sure, the graphics are OK I suppose, if a little dark and gloomy, but much like the first game ‘Car Mechanic Simulator VR‘ this game also falls flat when it comes to gameplay. This is NOT a virtual job game in which you will be repairing trains, this is a point and click educational style game and not something I will be recommending any time soon. This could have been something well worth owning, but it seems no effort was made to transfer it into a VR game.
