FARPOINT REVIEW
Farpoint is the VR
game I have been waiting for since I was a kid, deeply immersive with a fun
story.
In Farpoint you play a pilot who has crashed landed on a strange new world and you are looking to regroup with a pair of scientists and find a way home sounds simple right?
So, first
things first let us take a look at the games graphics, to be honest they are
nothing to write
home about but they aren’t awful either the facial animations
are well done and I am glad to see that
the people in the game feel normal
sized (so often with VR games I feel like a midget surrounded by
huge people)
the visuals you get when you look out across the strange alien world are
normally very
pretty and the creatures you encounter at the start actually gave
me a bit of the creeps, although I
have to say some of the battlefields you
fight on feel a little sparse and could have done with some
colour or at least
a feel more interesting looking rocks!.
But considering the hard work the PS4 has to
do to process VR images I have to say they did a great
job here.
The story is
a bit cheesy to be honest but the excellent voice acting pulls you through that
and actually made me care about the other characters in the story, I enjoyed
listening to the banter
they had with one another and the whole thing enhanced
the fun I had with this title.
Gameplay,well without this the whole thing is a dud right? Well the FPS mechanics here
are solid,
The PS aim controller feels good and is suitably accurate enough to
precisely aim and pop of a target
with my sniper rifle and all the control
buttons are within easy reach so I don’t have any trouble
moving about combined
with the VR allowing me to blind fire around corners/walls and dodge
enemy fire,
to be perfectly honest I am not a particularly good FPS player and some of the
areas I
really struggled with but I found the challenge exhilarating and found
my skills improve with each
death. The initial few levels feel like the game is
letting me get used to the mechanics throwing the
same enemies at me again and
again but once you clear those the levels really open up and I found
the
variety of enemies expand suitably. The weapons in the game all feel good and
meaty and I often
found myself with a big grin on my face as I mowed down
swarms of enemies with my assault rifle
the rumble of the gun really making me
feel like I was Rambo.
I know this is a short review but I really do not want to spoil anything for you
All in all I think
this is a must for any PSVR owners and I am so glad I managed to get my hands
on
a copy today, whatever you do get the Aim controller with it I know it’s
more expensive but I
couldn’t imagine playing this game with anything else and I
am really looking forward to playing
more titles with it.
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