The Story

Global comic book giant, Marvel, has teamed up with gaming house, Camouflaj, and put together Playstation’s biggest VR release of the year. The two firms have conspired to give fans of the Armoured Avenger, Iron Man a taste of what it’s like to fly around blasting baddies in the old red & gold. The Iron Man VR game’s trailer promises a lot. It delivers, on the gameplay front, but leaves quite a bit to desired on the “narrative” end of things.

The narrative opens as predictably as most Iron Man narratives; Tony Stark, a billionaire arms dealer experiences a life event that alters his perspective and causes him to abandon his arms dealer path and take on a more philanthropic bent. This new do-gooder persona then uses a high-tech suit he built to escape the hairy situation that changed him, to fight the forces of evil. Must be an ego thing.

The P.S. VR narrative begins with a decision to ‘retire’ an AI program modelled after Stark’s personality – which helped him with weapons design -after he goes full tilt about Stark Industries’ core business being greener. He gives the program rights to continue existing on the internet. The rest of the game covers how bad an idea that turns out to be.

5 years on. With Stark having fully repositioned Stark Industries – as well as his public persona – to something more positive, he finds himself contending with ghosts from his past. A computer hacker, coincidentally named Ghost, attacks Stark aboard a company aircraft, naming him responsible for all the deaths caused by the weapons his company produced. The rascal even has the nerve to reactivate decommissioned Stark Industries attack drones, and has them bombard Stark Industries property across the globe. 

Desparate Stark, having been caught slipping by Ghost’s attack, reactivates Gunsmith (aforementioned AI) and goes on the offensive. This makes for some exhilarating moments that give the player a sense that VR is the perfect medium to present an Iron Man game. Those seem few-and-far-between while wading though everything else.  Iron Man VR intermittently suffers from mundane, predictable – sometimes preschoolish – gameplay

Playing The Iron Man VR

Being a First Person Aerial Shooter, Iron Man VR enables the user to be fully immersed in the Iron Man universe, and take on the role of Tony Stark piloting the famous suit. With two PlayStation Move VR controllers, one is able to interact with the Iron Man universe, blasting enemies with repulser canons, maneuver through the air, or both, in addition to deactivating bombs, and opening doors. 

As Stark, you will navigate a surprisingly, open world. Which is quite awesome if you have the stomach (expect to get a touch, queasy from all the frantic flying around during fight scenes.) Though PlayStation claimed the game could be played sitting down, one might find that, that is a difficult thing to achieve, Since much of the motions required to play Iron Man VR tend to require a standing position. 

Something that may truly annoy some, are the tedious cutscenes and loading screens (The wait is tortuous). The game could have done with more action and fewer pointless conversations, as well. Camouflaj could have upped the Iron Man experience by dropping most in-game revelations via the suit’s communication system during a battle. Things to look into if they’re planning a sequel. 

Conclusion

Iron Man VR is a great game, it just suffers from too much pointless material. Excessive downtime between action scenes, and pointless conversations and activity could, perhaps, work in a darker setting, like in a Batman game. Tony Stark’s universe however, being rooted in arms dealing, seems to need more blasting, ducking and frustrated restarting of levels. At times it gets very Hitman, but still delivers the goods.

Gameplay could have been better, especially on the hardware front. Perhaps PlayStation should have updated their VR offering before even thinking of touching this one. One can’t help but feel that the game might have been better rendered on an Oculus Quest.

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Though still a bit pricey up at its higher-end, there are a number of options available on the market for an interested buyer. However, one should take a few things into consideration before committing a portion of their hard-earned money on an item that won’t work well for their specific needs.

Points To Consider When Choosing Your VR Headset

One of the first things one should keep in mind when choosing a VR headset is what device they want to use the headset with. For example, a Sony PSVR set isn’t going to be of much use to you if you don’t already own a PS4 console. In some instances, device compatibility is also a point worth considering.

Second, but equally as important, is to ask yourself whether you want to fully immerse yourself into the world of VR enabled gaming, or do you just want to experience something different every now and then?

Last but not least, the recent explosion of reality means that there are a lot of new entrants to the market. Thus creating a wide variety of choices when it comes to design and more importantly, the price. In this business, you get what you pay for.

Here Are The Best VR Headsets That 2020 Has To Offer

Listed below, in no particular order, are some of the best VR headset options available for purchase.

Oculus Quest

This is a fine piece of immersive technology that was first introduced to the public’s purchasing domain in May of 2019. What’s also cool is that it does not need to be connected to a console or any other device for you to get going.

Although this device’s inner workings are nowhere near as powerful as the PC oriented Rift S model, it does a really fine job of minimising friction. Ease of use is a great argument in the case of the Oculus Quest.

Price: $399

Sony PlayStation VR

As far as unit sales are concerned, the PSVR is by far the best selling VR headset on the market. This makes a lot of sense considering that it does not require a premium PC or smartphone and that the PS store is not likely to run out of good quality games any time soon. All you need is a PS4.

Price: $350 – $470

Google Cardboard

This neat little project is by far the simplest and most affordable way to get in on the VR experience, and it is compatible with both Android and iOS devices.

This setup is as crude a VR experience as you can get. It is literally made up of a cardboard frame and plastic viewing lenses. To start viewing, all you need to do is download the app, and attach your smartphone to it.

Price: $7,99

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