Echo Wars - Road Rage

[h1]Experienced on the Meta Quest 3[/h1] You can view my gameplay & early impressions here: https://youtu.be/Q-8gzWtiiE4 Close call, but I decided to give this game a sideways recommendation. It' a pure arcade shooter where you drive with one hand and shoot with the other. The game did release in Early Access and the game could use some polish. I think the game's concept is fine. I would say the gameplay is unique. However, the execution is currently lacking. It just seems like there's something off. The game should feel adrenaline-fueled, but instead it feels slow-paced. There's some interesting ideas, but it's just not fine tuned to feel action-packed. Game is running on the Unity Engine. On my RTX 3080, performance was fine. You can play with joystick to drive, or put one hand on the wheel and steer in VR, or use a gaming wheel! There's a special comfort mode for those who may experience nausea normally when driving in VR. [b]Rate 5/10.[/b] [quote]Please note: I received a free Steam key through the Steam Curator Connect program. If you enjoyed my review, please consider joining my Steam Curator group [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Oculus_WMR]Oculus Rift Reviews.[/url][/quote]

1st Impressions and Gameplay Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcWs2IuW3E8

this was an immediate scoop for me, because this was literally a dream game scenario i cooked up in my head some time ago: one hand on a sim wheel, on hand with a vr controller wielding a pistol. that being said, even at five bux i can't recommend simply because of how poor the car feels to drive. jerking back and forth, no flow. very jarring compared to what i was expecting with a wheel. keeping the game to support the development of an idea. maybe i'll tweak some settings and try it again in the future but ehhhhhhh =/

First of all, I played a long time in the DEMO version, which doesn’t count toward time played in the actual game. After playing the demo, I purchased this game right away. That is why it looks like I have hardly played this game at all when you look at my Playtime here at the time of this review. This is the best VR game I have played in quite some time....perhaps in the last two (2) years. I am using the standard HTC Vive and Track Controllers, and I can confirm this game works perfectly in VR with this setup. I could have used my Wheel to make this game play even better, but my Wheel is a bit bulky and clunky to get it all setup in my play space, and then just to put it back later. I love the following regarding this game in VR: 1. It's very forgiving. I am not an expert gamer, nor do I live in my mother's basement, playing video games all day and night (like many Steam Gamers here do). Hence, this game is a breath of fresh air for those of us who appreciate a thrilling, action-packed game that doesn't require hours of training before you can enjoy playing it. It's easy to just pick up and play right away, and you can leave and come back at your leisure anytime and just pick up where you left off. 2. I love the Difficulty settings. I can set it to “Relaxing” because I am just trying to have some fun occasionally, and I could care less about beating anyone else’s best leaderboard scores. All the expert gamers shouldn’t mind this either, because they can play the insane setting if they want more of a challenge. 3. I love the aim-assist in this game….again a very forgiving feature for us old veterans who still remember when the Space Invaders cartridge made its debut in 1980 on our super-advanced Atari 2600 console. 4. I love fact that you can continue making progress on each level even after you get slaughtered by all the chaos going on, which is very well done by the developers. It draws you in, and it gives you a feeling of immersion that VR was designed to do in the first place. Many developers seem to have forgotten this art when it comes to creating a great atmosphere in VR games. 5. I love chasing the Bosses at the end of the Levels. They aren’t so difficult to eliminate when you pay attention to the strategies and hints that the game tries to provide you with so you aren’t stuck on one level for infinitude. 6. I love the Menus and UI because they are very intuitive and there are several options to choose from already. My only advice to make this game better would be to polish it a bit more. It looks great now, but I know it could look even better if the developers put some more time into the level of detail. Nice job, Devs. I just looked, and I actually own several of the VR games that these developers have on the market currently, and now you know why. Please keep these types of games coming in the future as well!

Good game, fun to play

一邊開車一邊BoomBoomBoom開槍的遊戲，感覺像是回到街機黃金時代，巨大的BOSS們也很壯觀！安裝要7GB合理。 16關卡的體驗！喜歡這個爆炸和混亂滿屏，科幻設計的感覺，如果車速和開槍速度調快多0.5倍追加更多衝擊感找到方法提高腎上腺素的點可能更加爽快更加完美！ 6/10分!

Tried Xbox controller: Driving with left stick and aiming with right stick is not for my brains ;-) Mouse Controls: Driving with WASD and aiming with mouse work well I try VR controls next. Overall: First four missions are simple drive and shooting tracks - they are ok. Speedfeeling is not great - car moves rather slow. I am curious if tuning is part of the game at a later stage. Like one of the fellow reviewers said: The games difficulty is forgiving and I am looking forward to playing in VR. Addition 10.04.2026: Could not bring the game to run in VR using the PSVR 2 App. So I cancel playing.