System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £7.19
Comfort Rating: Red
Genre: Interactive Experience
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
VR Shop Score 1/100: 50
Description: Experience the dream of driving a Lunar Rover on the moon! Re-live the lunar rover exploration on the last moon mission – Apollo 17. This is the apogee of the most extreme travel, camping, and hiking expedition in mankind’s history. Imagine not only landing on the moon, but then having an incredible moon buggy to explore far beyond where you can see or easily get back to the landing module. The application employs realistically modelled moon terrain and mountains from satellite images, real moon photographs, and photogrammetry to bring the moon closer than ever before. Travel the actual rover route and visit the sites from the original expeditions. Get out and walk around to explore in more detail. Go places the astronauts never could, but maybe dreamed of.
Review: The good news is ‘Apollo 17 – Moonbuggy VR’ isn’t just about the Moonbuggy experience which is pretty cool. There is also some content based around the launch and the mood landing itself. With some interesting facts and some great educational content, there is a lot to learn here for sure, but it is little more than a short interactive experience. You can’t drive about on a virtual moon until you get bored, you just get to do a series of mini-tasks until it ends which is just under the 20-minute mark. It’s worth a look if you love your space history I suppose, but even then I would wait for a good sale before giving it a go.
