Zero-G VR (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Silver Award

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £3.99
Comfort Rating: Red
Genre: Action
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers, Gamepad, Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+

 

Description: Zero-G VR has been built using the acclaimed engine Unreal 4 to create the next generation VR games, incredible graphics, and dynamic light effects to ensure you have the best gaming experience! In this game, you will play as an astronaut using an Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (AMU), a propulsion unit that allows the astronaut to perform spacewalks at a distance from the shuttle.

Using AMU to move in space, you will feel the zero gravity and the weightlessness in this amazing and highly immersive experience. Listen to the astonishing atmosphere-breaking music in the dark space flight, to keep tension during spacewalks, and suddenly switch to the soft music of the safe space station. Everything to engage your perceptions.

Review: Have you ever wanted to be an astronaut? Doing spacewalks and generally having space-themed fun in zero gravity? Well, forget about it. Space is a dangerous place and one of the most dangerous things you can do is a spacewalk. That fun feeling of weightlessness will soon turn into fear as you fly from a life pod back to your space station with space debris and meteorites all around you. Oh…and your air is quickly running out.

This is a fast-paced game that requires you to simply get back into your space station after some sort of disaster (or maybe it is a training exercise). The problem is your air is running out and you have all sorts of crazy things to avoid. But you might not care because while there is danger just about everywhere, it all looks so amazing and peaceful. Well, it does until you suddenly catch eyes on something heading your way at a great speed realising you have to use valuable fuel boosting out of the way. Those are the times this game get the heart going much faster than it probably should.

Not only will Zero-G VR get your heart racing, but it also lets you understand the danger that astronauts face every time they do a spacewalk. I’m not saying this is accurately educational, it might mean you learn to respect them that little bit more for doing such a dangerous job. This is a game that gets the heart racing and the blood pumping. Sure at times it is a little nauseous, but ask any astronaut and tell will tell you that floating about in space is indeed nauseating. You will need you VR legs for this game, but if you have and enjoyed watching films like Gravity with Sandra Bullock you might find this more fun than you would think.