DISCLAIMER: It's important to note that this is ***NOT A VIDEO GAME*** If you're looking for interactivity, look elsewhere. If you're a history enthusiast, however, this is certainly worth the price of admission. Personally, I didn't find it incredibly immersive or groundbreaking, but this is coming from someone with a lot of VR under their belt. It takes a lot to impress me. It's also worth noting that the visuals, while passable, lead a little to be desired. Often times, I found the scenes too dark to see the details. The experience is also rather short. For $5, that's to be expected. Where this media shines is the sound design. Hearing Dan Carlin's distinct voice over the screams and explosions gave me chills at a few points. I am impressed with the quality of the audio. If you have a spare $5 laying around, and you're relatively new to VR, I say give it a shot.

A short intense graphical display of the World War 1 Fronts narrated by Dan Carlin, although short (15 minutes) its very humbling and gives a great perspective into the trenches and its horrors. Would've loved for it to be longer or to be able to explore the environments afterwards, but its decisive presentation and atmosphere is fantastic and great to show anyone trying out VR.

It goes a bit too fast, and is trying a bit too hard to make a point, without really giving me the right feeling in gameplay. The best part was probably the shelling scene, but otherwise the rest felt lacking. This would have been the perfect medium to see through a soldiers eyes running over the trenches into machine gun fire; but instead we see others get shot from behind a wall. We could have seen the inside of tanks out on the field, or planes in the sky, but we are relegated to the sidelines with a rather poor view. I love Dan Carlin and the hardcore history podcast. I think this type of idea could be cool, but it doesn't really live up to showing the horrors of war as it describes them.

Well it's short and sweet, if i had to complain, it would be that. But if you listened to the blueprint for Armageddon series from Dan Carlin, you will probably appreciate it anyway! For the uninitiated https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/ It's still free at this moment,6 part 3-4 hours a piece history podcast about WW I,plenty of other history too from Dan ...

A decent little 14 minute visual experience. Half of the experience is wasted, in my opinion, on talking with nothing really happening. It feels like it's padded out to artificially extend the length of it. If you're going to use VR as a medium then take full advantage of it and show us cool stuff throughout, instead of boring scenes for the first half of it. Models look good but textures on some of the walls and stuff look so ugly that it actually took me out of the experience. I feel like they could have done so much more with this though, but for whatever reason they just chose to put out an ugly looking short (yet cool) visual experience. I'm so torn on recommending this because there's other short visual experiences out there for VR that are free and rival this. I think $0.99 would be more appropriate. This gets me excited for what the future might bring with full interactive experiences showcasing history in this format. I just want it to be more substantial than this.

I would say short and sweet, but this is far from sweet. This absolutely stunning experience really brings light to the horrors of just a few aspects of the Great War. You may have already thought the soldiers who fought these battles were brave, but you can only know how brave they really were by seeing it for yourself - this shows just a fraction of the awful things that happened over and over, every day, all day. Is it worth £4? Absolutely. I would love to see more of this, and I would happily pay what is necessary to experience more. Best experienced in a large room with full 360 view, you might want to walk around a bit.

As a fan of Dan Carlin and his Hardcore History podcast, I'm reluctantly recommending it. What is there is good, but it can be better and it is way too short. However, the main problem is that it does not really feel like an independent standalone piece. It feels like a VR companion piece to Dan's Blueprint for Armageddon. If you haven't listened to that program, then I can't see you being interested or enjoying this. PS - If you have not listened to Blueprint for Armageddon, please pause everything in your life and go listen to it now. It doesn't matter if you are into history or WW1, Blueprint for Armageddon is a masterpiece audio program like you've never heard before.

Good concept, bad execution. Its supposed to make you feel immersed in a WW1 experience but there are plenty of issues that really take you out of it. The two biggest ones that stand out would be: * The narrator sounds like an overly edgy MTV host. Idk why they wouldn't go with a narrator that sounds like a solder from the 1900's. * The muzzleflashes don't line up with the gunshots at all. At one point someone was firing with no audio at all. However the audio sounds pretty good overall, even if it doesn't line up most the time. If it had been a bit longer and had more interesting things to show off, I could have looked past the issues it had. But it is only a 14 minute experience, so the amount of issues and immersion breaking in such a small experience is kinda unacceptable.

I've never left a review on steam but I found this "experience" so bad that I felt, as an relative of two men who fought in the great war (one of which died) that I needed to leave one for this. The narration is cringe, it feels like I'm watching an avengers movie. Eg: saying things like "oh yeah? and this!" (In my opinion a voice over reading letters from the front lines would have been much more fitting, they did it at the end so I don't know why that guy had to try to "spice it up" with ill fitting 21st century speaking styles) The portrayal of trench warfare? I'll put it like this, in the rendition of Ypres, you see 6 men lose their lives from a little dugout on the side of a trench and the rag-doll effects are comparable to call of duty, includes cringe moments like a hand hanging over the trench holding a rosary beads (smh) The thumbnails (or whatever) in the game page are misleading, your never that close. Go watch the Peter Jackson documentary "They shall not grow old" and you'...

Way too short. Very little action, very few scenes, and the visuals aren't good enough to be particularly immersive. Disappointed as a fan of Dan Carlin's podcast.