Unearthing Mars VR

It's completely not what I was expecting. It had technical problems from the start, like haptics getting stuck on for extended periods, when I first started it didn't detect my HMD height correctly and I was a giant and had to restart everything. It doesn't tell you which chapters are a seated experience and which aren't, which ruins the seated parts as you're sat in a seat in the game and stood up in real life. If it just gave you a heads up for each chapter then you could move a chair into place before it starts. You have to teleport to predesignated spots which appear very slowly at times making it frustrating to move around. There's a part where you think you'll be driving a Mars Rover and it turns out you're floating in the air behind it with a remote control driving it like you would an RC car, totally ruining any excitement of driving a Mars Rover on Mars. The voice acting isn't great, the voice for the robot is laughable, it sounds like a badly voiced Dalek. The lip synci...

I picked it up in Summersale and am at Level 4 now. I love it so far. I always assumed that with VR the entertainment industry would develop new formats that are more experience orientated in addition to the very fast and stressful game-play oriented formats that are the mayority right now. "Unearthing Mars" is very much in that direction, it gives you time to take in the environment and slowly develops the story. The graphics of the "War of the worlds" waveshooter first Level were truly breathtaking and among the best VR experiences I have had so far. What could be done better? Well, the abrupt level endings would be my main critique-- all levels so far just abruptly ended without a visualization of the end and then the next level would load... the transition could be made more organic so that the immersion is not destroyed each time a level i completed. Keep up the good work.

I thought it was a game. However, this is supposed to be a story. Yet it's very poorly written and it's the worst voice acting that I've ever heard...no exaggeration.

Had no problems with this game/story, as it is more a story that you experience than a game. I quite enjoyed the experience but would say it is too short. Completed in less than 2.3 hours but did find it engaging. Not something I will go back to but worth sharing with a friend.

[h1]Experienced on the Oculus Rift[/h1] You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/iXB4pOupQnY This is really a space-themed walking simulator, without the walking. You teleport in some parts of this game, but mostly you're just watching the cinematic scenes play out. The controls are awful and you can tell this is a PSVR port. There are also some light puzzle elements. The game takes about 90 minutes to complete. This could have been a much better game, if they had hired better voice actors. One of the main characters sounds almost as robotic as the actual voiced robot in the game. Unfortunately, the writers of this story did not help her out. There is not much depth to the characters or to the plot. In fact, the story starts out very much by the numbers, then suddenly takes a turn into left field. Just when the story starts getting weird and interesting, the game ends. You do have snap turning, but you have to press in your joysticks. You control a Mars rover-type ...

A really slow start (chapter 1-5) but the story progression picks up during the last half of the game. It is not an action game but does provide a pretty epic feel during the opening and later part of the game (though, short). Voice acting is kinda bad but decent at other times, but there are small moments towards the end of the game that are really cool to experience in VR, because you're not just watching a story being told, you're experiencing the central characters journey and emotions, that although are not anything exceptional, it still has an impact to experiencing it as the character does. Music and sound effects are great and if you can stick past the first half of the game and not go into it expecting an action adventure game, it's a pretty decently put together, story-driven VR experience that is rare right now. Give it a chance.

After the first action packed section (with no context), it's just too slow and boring for me.

Good adventure simulator game. Allows you to interact and be part of the story. Graphics are very nice. Controls are fairly easy. Tutorials show you what to do whenever you have to do something new. I didn't finish the game yet. I think I made it to chapter 4. At the beginning of the game you start off playing chapter 9 so I guess there are at least 9 chapters. Overall, a nice fun immersive experience, on Mars. There is no locomotion except teleporting to predetermined spots which, yes, isn't great but it did not take any enjoyment away for me. The environments were enough to suck me in. There is no real purpose to go traversing the Mars lanscape with specific missions being done anyhow. For $15 dollars it is worth a buy if you like adventure games, simulators, Mars , robots, controlling rovers and having a nice looking pilot flying you around. On sale this is a definate buy. From what I played so far I give it 8/10. Video of first play here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fil...

No replay value and no decision making. Pretty much everything you do is inconsequential, to the point that the game feels like an extended tutorial for an actual game. More of a slightly interactive experience than a game. It's really only a 90 minute experience or so, so as far as value proposition goes, there are far better options available, but at the end of the day, if you're someone who invested into a full VR setup, it's an experience that's worth the $10 or whatever. At the end of the day, I do reccomend it. The graphics are among the best I've seen, you get a variety of controls, and the story is enough to keep your interest for the time it takes to get through it. Iff the developers add a reasonable amount of content to the base setup work they've done, they could have a AAA hit, it's that well done.

This game has some really cool story, but also some weird play style in the gameplay. Overall, there are plenty interesting elements in this game. It feels kinda slow for the first 5 chapters, but I would strongly recommend to play at least to chapter 6. From chapter 6 to 10, I felt the urge to know what's coming up next, and also a lot more gameplay merged in. The ending was quite sudden, but mesmerizing. Although it's only a 2-hour game (already mentioned in the descriptions), I can't really complain much about the quality of the game. To conclude, I would recommend this game.