System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £8.29
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Adventure
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+
VR Shop Score 1/100: 30
Description: Escape the Shattered Plains is a short (20-30 minutes) interactive narrative adaptation of Brandon Sanderson’s best selling fantasy novel The Way of Kings. You experience the eastern coast of Roshar, where the land is savaged by highstorms, eroding away the earth and leaving rough stone formations. Almost all forms of life have a type of shell for protection but you are not as lucky. Kaladin’s fate is your own as you you step onto the shattered plains and…
Review: For those who don’t know, The Way of Kings is an epic fantasy novel written by American author Brandon Sanderson. They have sold millions of copies and fans would have been looking forward to seeing some of the characters in the books come to life in this VR experience. Sadly the truth is The Way of Kings: Escape the Shattered Plains is much more a demo for a game, a testbed rather than a game in itself. Sadly asking £8.29 for this is simply crazy talk. Yes it looks good, yes it is action-packed, but paying that for 20 minutes of gameplay is utter madness. Unless this suddenly becomes free I would leave it well alone.
