G-Rebels

While the game looks nice, it's honestly disappointingly soulless. Missions are go there shoot that with really dead voiceacting (AI?) and the player character has no agency, not even Ace Combat-esque Yes/No prompts or options to shoot or not shoot things in missions to make choices. The upgrade system is standard +10% damage bull, flight model feels really floaty in a bad way. Flying is easy at least, but there doesn't seem to be a flight path vector and instead just a nose marker which is a confusing crosshair. Unless there's significant re-evaluation of the game, I'd recommend avoiding it as of the Early Access entry.

NGL controls are kind of off, doesn't feel very natural on a controller. maybe flight-sim setup would kick ass? but as I'm without I can only review based on my experience, I tried to Ace Combat-ify the controls, but dog fighting didn't feel good, rewarding or satisfying. Game ran pretty smooth, and it seems like a good concept, I just don't have the hardware for this, and don't see enjoyment in my future from playing this.

The feel of the game is good, but I'm having some performance issue with my current setup, not sure about the reason but getting consistent 30-ish in-game fps no matter the settings I'm tweaking, graphics setting, resolution at 1440p or 720p, DLSS/XeSS or native, with fps limited or not. Seems it's locked somehow. The only scene I'm getting more than 30 is the title screen.

The handling feels very responsive for a arcade like flight sim, very well done momentum as well, you feel your weight as you move. Only issue I have is probably the combat in terms of the guns they feel pretty good at times but if you miss a shot and it hits an unintended target you now started another fight. The upgrades are also quite seamless its all up to the player to put the money where they want it. Overall I can definitely see others playing this game a ton.

Early access review: There's a fun foundation here. The flight model is fun and easy to play on a keyboard and mouse. The main story missions kept me interested. As for combat, I'm used to Elite; Dangerous where the flight model lends itself really well to chasing and avoiding "turret" battles. G-Rebels seems to be somewhere in-between. You do end up crossing paths with your target a lot. Maybe that's a skill issue on my part. But so long as you pay attention to the level number of a scanned target you can avoid getting in over your head before engaging. I'm recommending early access, especially at this price point.

I might be missing something here, but I think we're back in the early Oculus days when VR feature is advertised with no actual VR controller support? Ah yes, I wanna strap a VR headset on my head and use a game controller to control things. O.O

Really fun game especially when in VR there is some bugs and over sites but Its early access so this can be expected some bugs are: 2nd to last mission Your "ally" does not shoot at the end of the mission: avoiding the cops you get spotted randomly even when a cop is not near by that is all can't wait for the next chapter!