System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR
Price at Time Of Review: £10.99
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Action
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: The juiciest, most action-packed burst of fruit-filled fun is here! Re-imagined by the immersive power of virtual reality, Fruit Ninja VR brings you closer to the action than ever before. From backyard to battleground, transform your world as you compete against rival players in Four Diverse and Exciting Modes: Classic – The classic gameplay you know and love! You have 3 lives, make them count!, Arcade – Pure mayhem. Slice your way through the madness and score insane combos!, Zen – A more ‘relaxing’ experience to hone your skills. Practice makes perfect and NEW ‘Survival’: Test your reflexes as waves of fruit are flung at your face! Don’t flinch.
Review: You have been cutting fruit with your finger on the app for years now and it is still considered one of the very best mobile games there is. But move forward a few years and we are now playing it in VR! Boy, have things moved on since the original game came out. Starting off you need to make sure you have enough sword-swinging room, then you are good to go. You get a few game modes to choose from: Arcade (which sees you slice as much fruit as you can in 60 seconds), Classic (Slice fruit and avoid bombs.) and Zen (Gives you 90 seconds, all fruit, no bombs).
The gameplay is pretty self-explanatory and very responsive, you simply have to slice as much fruit as you can using the Touch controllers, dual-wielding swords for double the fun. The more combos of fruit you can do the better as the little floating machine spits or floor holes shoot them out at you. You don’t need to think with this game, you just need to have fun which is very much in keeping with the original mobile game only this time with much better graphics of course.
Fruit Ninja VR is without a doubt just as much fun as the mobile game. OK, so it’s quite the same game as it once was, but in VR it works and works very well indeed. You will have loads of fun playing it, you will fail to get anywhere near the top 100 high score table and you will get knackered playing it. A motion control game at it’s best and worth every penny.
