System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR
Price at Time Of Review: £11.39
Comfort Rating: Red
Genre: Action
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers, Gamepad, Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
VR Shop Score 1/100: 75
Description: Are you ready to travel back in time to 1943 and relive the excitement of classic arcade dogfights? Now, thanks to Virtual Reality, you’re about to discover a new level of immersion and spectacularity, while retaining the original essence and fun.
Review: Being a big fan of the original 1943 Battle of Midway I was not looking forward to playing ‘1976 – Back to midway’ because I thought it was going to be a poor clone of the original game, only in VR. The good news is I ended up being pleasantly surprised by the game and really ended up enjoying it…a lot. The graphics are worthy of particular note as they look great especially when playing in cockpit mode. Sure the game lacks many of the original games things like bomb-dropping and it also has a lack of variety when it comes to the enemies, it still feels great to play and can indeed be oddly immersive. While I would try and grab it a little cheaper than the current £11.39 asking price I do easily recommend it to not only fans of the original game, but also fans of actions games as a whole.
