XLR

[b]BE WARNED![/b] These developers originally appeared here to develop a Minecraft style game called Metaverse. Abruptly, without warning, they abandoned development of that game (after taking in quite a few sales) to develop this game - a game that has nothing at all to do with Metaverse. To try and mollify their agrrieved customers, they offered us a free copy of XLR (hence, how I'm able to write this review), but are not offering refunds. Metaverse has now gone nearly the entire year without any further update and XLR, as a game, is in a totally different (and, for me, completely uninteresting) genre. And XLR? Updated almost never (as you'll be able to see from it's Store News page), and not at all since August. One can only assume they're moving on to yet another game that tickles their short-attention span. Shonky developers like this should not be allowed to discredit and tarnish the Early Access program, without which a number of quite fine games would never have happened. ...

Cancelling this idiots review who got it for free and hated on the dev for needing a VR headset, wtf: http://steamcommunity.com/id/justx2/recommended/447100 I get my Vive on Monday and I'll give an honest review then. This looks pretty awesome! Edit: Okay so I might've got trapped in Audioshield for like two weeks but I finally got round to trying this out. It shows heaps of promise with a really solid idea which needs some fleshing out. The teleport through minimap mechanic is awesome. Teleport mechanic needs some polish (an arc instead of a laser point would really help). Player weapons feel very wimpy right now and quite difficult to aim (shots are FAST but still take time to traverse the huge landscape). Walls are a particular pain to build and when you fail the game just stops so there's no way to measure how well you did just yet. At time of writing, there's a lot of work needs doing so don't buy in without watching a recent video but I've got pretty high hopes for this one.

Not good yet. Like others have said, it has potential. But right now it is not good or fun. There is absolutely no structure to the game. You are plopped down into an open space, given some guns and turrets then baddies come at you. The controls are bad, the guns track badly, the reloading mechanism make you want to just forget that the game has guns to play with, it is so low rez that you cannot tell what is going on. This is alpha state, maybe even pre alpha. Give the developers time to actually produce a game and not just proof of concept for friends to play, then maybe it will be worth selling to people.

NOT YET, this game has amazing potential, balance for single player is overwhelming. What is the point of a wall in tower defense that enemy's can walk over? The control's are still buggy, in the heat of battle. I love the concept, and I have every intention of coming back to this game if they fix the issues it has.

I understand that this game is still in early access, but it seems to have several fundimental flaws. The bigest flaws I take issue with are the wonky controls and for me personally, the fact that the game assumes you are only 5'8". I'm quite a bit taller than that and this makes it very difficult to use the game's weapons in any effective way when the avatar's shoulders comes out of where my sides are. Not to mention how disconcerting this is. The developers need to work on scale and overall weapon handling. Maybe take a page from Raw Data and let you calibrate your height when setting up the game.

Honestly, this game isnt good. The weapons lag behind your hands so far that it is difficult to be accurate, but with the way guns operate, im not even sure the developer wants you to be accurate. Using the grips to pick up/drop everything feels sloppy to me, but thats more of a preferance really. The way you open your inventory and teleport is just bad. Text lags behind movement and blur, so if you want to read it you have to be perfectly still. I wanted to do a Pro/Con system for this review.... but I honestly cant think of any pros! I've owned the game for a month and I haven't seen a single improvement. Can't recommend this game until MAJOR changes are made. Edit: 7/23/16 Well they have made major changes to the game and it's so much worse now. They have made it into a multiplayer arena shooter, that no one plays.

No updates since august... Well it was cheap but it still feels like a mistake. There's not much to do ingame in solo other than trying the locomotion methods and testing all the weapons on the small spidey bombs. It gets boring after 20-ish minutes...

No updates in yonks - it's dead.

After the update, it's a new game. Still WIP now (buggy too) but is going to support lot of features missing in other multiplayer shooters for Vive: a better locomotion (it seems comfortable too), a better weapon management (inspired by H3VR), classess of soldiers, a better graphics.

Note: This is an Early Access review. I've always been a fan of tower defense games, and have played the crap out of them ever since I discovered them in WC3. As soon as I got my Vive, I made it my mission to check out XLR as soon as I could. My initial impression was that it was pretty good. It is really a combination of a FPS and a TD, and it combines the two well. The game starts with you in a central command room, and you are given moments to assess your environment in a globe that lets you peer in and out of, before waves of enemies start approaching your location. You can either start building towers from the overview, or teleport right into the action by twisting your controllers 90% to a side and pulling the trigger. You are equipped with a building tool that lets you drop towers where you are pointing, and also a gun – something you will almost certainly need to use as the game starts. There is also an option to dual wield, by dropping your controllers to your waste and ...