Mars Odyssey

Quite frankly, this was one of the best vr experiences I've had to date. Excellent visuals, interesting bits of info, and a great teleport system. The funniest part is that, to me the most impressive thing was the helmet visuals and physics. *Edited for grammar.

This has the potential of being a good educational interactive experience for 6-14 year olds but not much more. It has a lot of bugs and is boring in its current state. The textures are very low-res compared to all of the imagery that is available from NASA. The rocks look like they are made from styrofoam. The teleporting is slow and not always accurate. The landers and hologram of mount olympus were decent. Driving the rover with the dust storm was the best part of the experience, until the dust storm dissapeared.

It might not be much in 2023, but I admit I learned something. Seeing the historical Mars probes "in person" puts things into perspective, like how adorably small Opportunity really is. I want to pet it now, or at least restore it to working order, like in the game. If you're into the history of Mars exploration, this is a fun little distraction - but not much more. The interactivity is minimal and the voice acting feels robotic, even if it's supposed to be a robot talking to you. The value here is taking a closer look at Mars rovers. If that's your thing, then you'll like this. If not, then there's absolutely nothing here for you.

Enjoyed it! Nice visuals - not quite Raw Data level, but fine for a short & educational experience. Leads you along so you're not lost, so the pacing is fine. Changes things up so you're not bored. For the price it's a great little "VR experience" with the spaceship & Mars. I also really enjoyed the educational aspects. (Re-)Learned some interesting facts about the planet(s) & the history of technology we've landed on Mars. We liked 30min, but that was a 5min+ where my spouse had problems w/interacting not working. Restarted & fixed it. I didn't finish it in the remaining 25min+ that I spent going through the adventure, reading things, listening to narration, and the interactive portions (again, they mix things up a bit so it's not repetitive/boring). Will return to finish (had to stop for un-game-related reasons). Cool little experience to put people new to VR into. Not some hours long thing & not physically taxing (so good for variety of ages/condition). And for the cheap price, ...

I bought this game because of my intrests in astronomy. It met some of my expectations but there are few things that could be improved. I like the game mechanics but it feels like a game made for children. There is no proper excitment. The most fun part about it was (spoilers) driving the tiny rover. It ended too quickly for me but I like the fact that you can travel to previous visited places. I don't think it's fully ready yet so I will not recommend this. I'm sorry to say this, but it does have some potential. I'm gonna keep it for the time being and let's see where this goes.

Small, short game that matches its discounted price well. It's half an hour worth spending. It's more like an impressive educational app than a game, but will sure spark some interest in our journey to Mars. While the almost non-exist "gameplay" part is underwhelming, [spoiler]it did prompt me to search how Opportunity cleans its dust on solar panel after blasting the dust off in game.[/spoiler] Yeah, it's a shame that I don't know the secret of long lives of Mars rovers until now. However, to my defense, I wasn't closely following them 12 years ago after the initial excitement of Spirit and Opportunity's successful landing. Downloading a tiff from NASA took me almost an hour on a modem link in China back then. Now with half an hour, I am appreciating a real-sized Opportunity and Curiosity on Mars. What a time to be alive! Valve's Destination showed me Curiosity in VR first. Mars Odyssey let me touch a few instruments and see what they are. Now, just wait for a while, I am sure I will...

Amateurish and just not enjoyable. It's undetailed, low res and boring. It may have been "cool" when VR was all new and such.. On top of that, there is no odyssey at all. What a misleading game title! It's just some "tech demos"/levels you're skipping through and the game mechanics are minimalistic. I didn't feel like being on mars at all.

Well executed. Consider this as 'The Blu in space'. :) Really enjoyable demo of how VR should work. Not much replay value - but immersive and a lot of fun. Recommended.

Enjoyable little experience. Will definitely let my nephew and friends kids play this one. They love Mars. The sunrise is beautiful as well. Visuals are great and audio is fantastic. I was expecting Athena to go Glados on me at one point though. ;)

Very short and more informational than entertaining. Still fun, but wouldn't spend money on this.