Asteroid Blaster VR

Interesting thought occured to me. VR is blazing a new trail in gaming, but some of the best games or experiences out their are re-makes of classics from the very first video games ever; and this works. For example, earlier on I was playing Gunjack which is basically Space Invaders on steroids, and it is a blast! This is basically Asteroids on steroids, very simple approach to it too. You are basically like Ironman flying around and blasting them. It works, is addicting and simple. There is no storyline, which can also be good. In my mind I can create a mission such as "I am clearing space lanes for galactic travelers, which is a great way to earn extra cash, being a top notch pilot...".

This game is very much a vr version of asteroids from years ago. Asteroids are gigantic and very realistic looking. Your gonna have fun busting these rocks up.

Has a nice addicting quality. Should be priced a little lower IMHO as its really pretty simplistic. Fun regardless.

Fun blaster. Reminds me a lot of the original where flying around took some skills that I sorely lack. Not for anyone that suffers vertigo. You are falling through space! I think it should default to wave mode as the arcade (endless) mode gets too hectic too quickly. In endless if you could at least clear the map before more crap came at you that would be nice. There are sooo many shiny things to collect but all seem just a bit too far away I am always out of thrust. I think you need to coast more and/or the shiny objects should be slightly attracted towards you. Also makes me really want the Vive wireless solution as I kicked out the power cable twice!

Odd that such a basic VR games is one of the most immersive, fun and beautiful VR games to date. Smooth, rich graphics, super-responsive interface and just plain fun - Kudos Devs!

This game is wildly additive and fun! Talk about taking a classic, and modernizing it with VR. soooo much fun. HMD Samsung Odyssey - Windows Mixed Reality Headset EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 GAMING, 11G-P4-6696-KR, 11GB GDDR5X, iCX Technology Intel Core i7-8700K Coffee Lake 6-Core 3.7 GHz (4.7 GHz Turbo) LGA 1151 ASRock Z370 Taichi LGA 1151 (300 Series) Intel Z370 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX Intel Motherboard G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 2666 (PC4 21300) SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 500GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive SAMSUNG 860 EVO Series 2.5" 1TB SATA III V-NAND 3-bit MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CORSAIR HXi Series HX1000i 1000W 80 PLUS PLATINUM Haswell Ready Noctua NH-D15 SSO2 D-Type Premium CPU Cooler Windows 10 - 64-bit

I love the idea, but it's poorly executed. The thrust buttons do nothing meaning you'll never get any powerups and your a sitting duck AND your emergency "get out of the way" button is almost instant suicide. Good idea, terrible balance. All it would need is for the thrust to actually have some noticeable effect and for the "oh shit" button to not hurt quite SO much. Edit: I didn't give this enough of a chance. At first it was slightly unintuitive, but it's really not that bad. I was only thrusting backwards, to be honest I feel a bit silly now.

This game is really close to being really good. There's only one thing it's lacking IMO, but unfortunately it's a big one for me, and that's the ability to rotate your ship with the thumb controllers. I really was hoping this could be a game I could play sitting down, but right now the only way to rotate is to stand up and pivot around, which makes it pretty hard to play sitting down. I'll give this a thumbs up for now and 3 stars, but if they do this change then I'll give it 5 stars (for the price, and for what it is. Don't expect this to be No Man's Sky or anything, it's an asteroids game).

[UPDATED REVIEW] The developer has made some great updates to this game. The tracking HUD (optional) is fantastic. I no longer have to keep spinning around to see if something is silently sneaking up to smack me dead in an instant. The HUD seems to borrow from Elite: Dangerous Though head look still isn't my favorite way to navigate it definitely feels a little more intuitive. The guns are still at the wrong angle (almost 90 degrees off), but that's something the dev is aware of and will hopefully correct in an update. All in all, the gameplay feels much better and closer to it's coin-op ancestor! I now feel comfortable recommending this early access game and look forward to continued updates. [OLD REVIEW] That excalated quickly! I made it to wave 2 before eating a space rock. It's a challenging game, but I think that's partly because it's not optimized as well as it could be. First, you're holding the guns at a really weird angle. Second, head look for navigation is a bad cho...

I've had this for years and don't pull it out much, but like it as a VR demo for the uninitiated. Yikes!