System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £14.99
Comfort Rating: Red (Extreme Movement)
Genre: Interactive Experience
Input: Gamepad
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: Yes
Age Rating: PG
Description: Off-Road Paradise is the 4×4 trial game featuring the most realistic off-road experience under extreme paradisiacal and impressive environments created for you to enjoy from the first minute in the most spectacular way.
Review: Off-Road Paradise: Trial 4×4 is pretty much what you might expect. It’s a game where you are the driver of a 4×4 off-road vehicle and you have to get from point A to point B (and pick up a few totem poles along the way for bonus unlockables). The goal of the game is to reach the checkered flag, but the problem is the car will bounce and jump around as if it was driving on the moon, so you have to be very carefully, but yet still be as quick as you can. Slow and steady wins this race as well as keeping an eye on what each where is doing.
With a very impressive 150 ready-to-play levels and even a Motion Controller supported level maker and editor, you will not be running out of things to do anytime soon. Even when you have run out of ideas for new levels yourself, the Local multiplayer will keep this game life going. This game also supports a steering wheel so with an in-car view, you could make this game seem very real indeed. It also helps that it looks pretty good as well.
This is one of those games you can take one of two ways. You could look at it as a failed off-road simulator with the worst physics engine you will ever have the misfortune of experiencing. Or you could look at this game as an arcade-style off-road racer with some crazy physics to make the game more exciting and much more of a challenge.
Depending on which way you see this game will totally depend on how much pleasure you get from it. I am in the latter group and I had a whale of a time just trying to do more and more levels. This game offers seemingly neverending fun and challenges. But some will see it as too difficult to control and more like driving on the surface of the moon than rather than on a bunch of rocks in the sea.
