Red Rover

[h1] Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers [/h1] i do recommend this experience. Keep in mind it's not for everyone. At this time there's not so much a game and there isn't a whole lot to really do. It's mostly about exploring the terrain and enjoying the realistic sights on Mars. Unfortunately, it is not exactly the most polished experience at the moment. It's not a simulation. There is no challenge in traversing Mars on your Red Rover. This is not the movie The Martian. You're not Matt Damon driving around on Mars. Your rover can go just about anywhere with little challenge except maybe flipping over if you go too fast over some hard angles. You can also fly around sort of. The views are mostly gorgeous if you're into Mars at all, but keep in mind this is replicated realistic terrain taken from satellite imagery. So don't expect aliens or really much to see other than the sheer awesomeness of Mars. If Mars doesn't interest you, you'll be bored to tears. I was disap...

Thumbs up, with some caveats. I've been reading Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars" trilogy recently, and I picked this up because I thought it might be good way to better visualize some of the landscapes described in the book. On that level, as a kind of visual aid to my imagination, it's pretty good. It's worth $5 -- the price of a fancy coffee drink -- to get an accurate idea of what Mars more-or-less looks like from ground level. As a game, however, it's ... well ... it's not one. It's not really even trying to be one. The controls are wonky and less than intuitive. (I'd pay another $1 for a DLC that just mapped the camera to the right analog stick on my Xbox controller). There are objective markers, but they don't really mean anything. There's no story. There's no skill involved in navigating the rover around, which could have been an interesting way to go. (There's a whole team at NASA that just tries to figure this stuff out for the real rovers.) You can't free roam the planet, only...

This is a very cool concept, but hold off until they provide a control scheme that makes sense. Keep my five dollars, though. Please use it to better the simulator.

Actual Mars terrain. VR offroading. Low grav. Done!

Like other reviewers say, keep your expectations low and you will be pleased. There really isn't much to do, besides driving around and sight-see. I was initially disappointed in the driving part as it doesn't feel very real at all. However, after seeing some of the terrain, I quickly realised that a more realistic driving experience will make you very sick in VR. You can also fly around, not very realistically, but it is easy and gets the job done. The bottom line for me, is that for an extremely low price, you get to see Mars close-up. Not all of it, but enough to appreciate what the one-way trip volunteers will be seeing in 2024. That alone is worth the asking price. Driving/flying around awkwardly is just a bonus.

This experience is stunning if you like exploring space in VR and I love flying around the real terrain, feels like I am there on Mars. I have waited for something like this for decades! Nice one Dev this has become my new favourite diddn't think anything would beat Lunar Flight so well done. If I could ask for a small request, could we have an untethered from vehicle roaming around EVA function so we can explore freely and an adjustment so we can calibrate our seat position in the rover up/down left/right for the viewpoint. I love it!

A decent attempt at VR Mars, as a default not as good as Mars 2030. Then you add the horrific situation where the "recenter" button is completely ineffective. I had to play it with my head in between two bookshelves! Very poor development. Mars 2030 is way better.

I had some issues navigating the main menu when the tutorial was over but found using WASD keys let me get past that and into the simulation. I didn't find that step very intuitive. Once in though, the simulation is excellent and I plan on spending much time racing around the surface of mars!

If you are like me having sometimes this thought '' let's go somewhere where the hand of humanity never set a foot '', this application offers 2 interesting things : - real terrain data 1:1 scale - you can opt for real satellite photo instead of arranged texture. I'm happy to see that Alan Chan DID sticked to reality, or what we got from the satellites . for gravity idk if he sticked to the martian gravity (3.7G) . ---- just for what i said above i forgive him for the PC controls : The app sounds oriented VR / controller, and i can just tell for PC : you get used to the controls , but ... mouse pretty please ? =) ( just look at mmos 3d / 1st person ).

The only part of this game that's fun is bouncing planet balls around in the training area. The game does get honorable mention for making me VR-sick faster than anything else I've played. Re-release this, and let us roll the planet balls around on Mars, Rocket-League-style.