John Wick Chronicles

Okay, lets be clear. This game is fun. the shooting is very polished, has great graphics, there is a story, and the soundtrack is good. For a VR title, its def worth playing however. the entire game can be beaten in less than 2 hour(if youre good, ive been stuck in level 2 cause i suck). but with that said. i've still had a ton of fun playing this game, and i highly recommend it at a sale price. it's still a very solid VR title so don't let the negative reviews fool you. just wait for it to go on sale for at least half the price.

If you bought this game, it's because you love John Wick. Clearly, you're going to want to love this game. Honestly, it could be great but it's a training level and three very short stages of a wave shooter. And you know what? The training level is the best of them. What are you really expecting from a John Wick game? You'd probably want to feel like John Wick. You really don't. John Wick is about badassedness, gunplay, and movement. You get gunplay. The game does its best to inspire movement. (There are a couple of moments where I was pretty much face down trying to get cover, but that was because the cover was inadequate.) I knew this was going to be a wave shooter going into it but there's literally nothing here that really conjures the source material. It's possible to finish this game in 25 minutes. For $20, that's insulting. Admittedly, the pistol play has me going back to the fun training level, grinding for #1 on the leaderboards, but this just wasn't enough content for that money. Maybe catch it on sale.

As a big fan of the mindless, over-the-top films, I was excited for this game. After it had gotten such negative reviews, I decided to wait until it was half off, figuring at that price even a mediocre shooter would be worth it. I was somehow wrong. Honestly, I'm not even sure if this is worth the $10 I got it for. At least it came with a copy of Payday 2. --- Performance is awful, had to turn all settings to low to even be playable (GTX 980 TI) Game crashes while in suite for second mission (Multiple times. I havent gotten past it.) No ability to recenter forces me to the edge of my playing space, pressing me against a real world wall to get into the elevator while the rest of my playing space is unused. Cant reach out to grab grenades in the training room as a result, either. If you're holding a gun with both hands, the gun is unable to tilt at all, which feels rather strange and throws off your aim, especially when you're trying to lean or shoot at an angle. Shotgun is trash, even at close range. So far I've seen no reason to use it. The SMG is useless to a lesser extent, too, as the rifle does everything the SMG can but with better accuracy. This may be an issue on my end, but my screen constantly goes to the default vive loading screen as the game struggles to load everything on time, completely breaking immersion and leaving me vulnurable in the game for a couple seconds at a time. Reloading the guns "realistically" feels weird, as there's no way to eject the magazine if it isn't empty. This means that the new mag clips through the old one for a second before it disappears. Speaking of reloading, the area that you have to grab to take another magazine from your hip seems to be directly tied to the height of your HMD. This means that if you're kneeling, you'll have a hard time trying to grab another magazine, as the game believes you need to reach through the floor to grab it. This seems to apply to arcade reloading, as well.

[h1]Reviewed using HTC Vive Pro[/h1] Arcade style shooter "Spray & Pray & OMG where's the cover 🚬 Or If your a true bad sss like Mr. Wick, he don't need 💩 cover that's for Girly Men like you - still not worth $19.99 🖕 I enjoyed and will replay this. Would love for others to have tried John Wick too. But Gosh Darn it this needs a permanent price reduction so not worth $19.99. Compared to the VR landscape out now days as say 1 year ago when this was released.

This is a fun VR game. It's an arcade style shooter. It has some honestly fun moments. The gun control is pretty good and has some great voice acting. I wish it was a little more immersive, i.e. I wish I could explore the hotel suite in more detail. I enjoyed it but it's a smaller game and from the trailers I expected a larger game. $20 is a little pricy for a movie advertising tool but they did a good job and I don't feel ripped off at all. Just know that this is a small port to help sell the film. However, it is fun to be John Wick, if only in a virtual world. :) Check out some of the game play in my video below. Thank you. https://youtu.be/ezHuyTkZH58

Let me preface this by saying that this game has the potential to be good with a few changes. And I say this as a HUGE John Wick fan. It needs to be fixed. I'm not recommending this game at $20 at this time due to the frustrating shortcomings. I sincerely wanted to enjoy this game. So lets start with the positives, the visuals are good, the continental lobby seems to have been recreated well. The menus are touch screen and responsive. With one exception stated later. You can reload from the hip and rack the action of the guns. This is very nice. This game is a wave shooter. The gameplay is ok at first. Now for my criticisms: There are no control customizations. You like the grip buttons? F*** you. You don't get to use them. There doesn't seem to be any movement outside of room scale. This comes to be a problem when a say a grenade lands near you outside the chaperone bounds. I punched my AV reciever quite hard and my hand is throbbing. Guns seem to have some RNGesus built in. They seem to be accurate at first but you can tell it's slightly randomized, which is WHOLLY frustrating. The whole point of aiming is control. The cover is too low. You'll probably trip on your cord hitting the deck. The sound is too freaking loud and the interface for turning down the sound is poor. The concierge is constantly blowing out your eardrums with low fidelity audio advice. The thermal scope on the sniper rifle won't allow you to see the weak points on the helicopter, so good luck killing it if you got that from an enemy, as the pistol, grenades and smg do jack against it. the sniper rifle often glitches to a barrel view because of how sensitive the scope distance is. grenade weight is wrong so good luck placeing those where you need to get them. Suggestions to fix in order to get a positive review out of me and most of these are, I think, pretty trivial.: Increase the scaling of cover so that taking a knee is sufficient. Implement touchpad movement inside the play area. I'm done punching things in real life. Take out the danmed rng from the guns. Turn down the default sound from your left ear. Make the sound adjustment menu a bar or something. Put some blood spray in there for hit cofirmation Fix the thermal scope issue. Put some control customization options in please.

It's an arcade-y wave-shooter at its heart that's only 3 levels long, but damn what a rush! Gunplay feels excellent and you can choose between three different difficulties. I imagine this game could easily be expanded with a few more levels and weapons. John Wick Chronicles is one of the more polished VR titles out there, and you should check it out as long as you don't mind paying premium for a short, but awesome experience. Graphics are very good for a VR title and I didn't notice any bugs or glitches at all. Only problem I had was a bit of a slowdown in the garage level. Not sure why, as the other levels were perfectly smooth with no lag or slowdown whatsoever. Also: You could also use this game to warm up before a workout, as the average gamer would probably be completely out of breath after a few rounds.

There are some cool things here, like being able to stand at the reception desk in the continental, and a not half bad target range, but everything else about this game is sloppy. The weapons feel unwieldy (a sin for a movie tie in for John Wick), the enemy AI looks like they're using stock animations, the elevator that takes you to places literally clips through you, and this has the horrible unreal engine 4 deferred renderer VR blur. If you've played low budget UE4 stand in place wave shooters before, this is just that, but with a John Wick coat of paint. A damn shame. But all is not lost. If you want to actually, "canonically" play as John Wick in a good game, go play Payday 2 VR. That game even has the signature H&K P30L in that game under the name "Contractor Pistol" and is a lot more fleshed out than JWC. Just because this game isn't worth your money doesn't mean that there aren't good John Wick-esque VR experiences out there. If you want a John Wick experience how you actually remember it from the films in terms of a raw combat system even though you're not gonna be fighting people with guns, I'd say your best bet is actually the Blade & Sorcery modding scene. That game lets you grab enemies, and there is a pistol mod and even a (♥♥♥♥♥♥♥) pencil that have been made by the community of that game. But man, JWC is not good, especially by VR standards in 2019. Listen to the reviews, because I didn't.