System: Oculus Rift, Rift S
Price at Time Of Review: £10.99
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Tower Defence
Input: Oculus Remote, Gamepad, Oculus Touch
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: Defense Grid has long been the gold standard of tower defense strategy games, and the VR version is one of the most comfortable VR games you can purchase while giving you a physical sense of the action around you that really enhances your strategic awareness of the game. Check out Tower view mode, find the gold cores, and enjoy a chapter designed specifically for VR play.
Review: Defense Grid 2 is the definitive tower defence strategy game and the new Enhanced VR Edition gives players the most intuitive and immersive Defense Grid experience imaginable. New intuitive user controls and displays designed from the ground up for VR make game actions faster, easier, and highly accessible. Players have a physical sense of the action around them. You can lean in and look all around your base in the VR edition and even view the action up close near the aliens and towers. The Enhanced VR Edition includes new exclusive content; the first official DGZ story expansion featuring five new levels and a new storyline with fan favourite A.|., General Fletcher.
Review: While I am a fan of the traditional tower defence games they always feel samey and nothing really new ever seems to come along. But yet that is exactly what Defense Grid 2: Enhanced VR Edition offers. I’ve played every reincarnation of the Defense Grid series of games so I was already looking forward to this new one.
With a good variety of maps, towers, weapons and enemies with will soon start to feel pretty satisfying at the range of ways you can take an enemy out. Throw in the multiplayer aspect and you suddenly have a lot more gameplay than the single mission mode. If you do indeed like tower defence games, you will feel right at home playing Defense Grid 2: Enhanced VR Edition and the VR aspect really gives it a new level of realism leading to even more immersion. I would recommend this game to any fan of the genre, but I might tell them to give it a miss if they aren’t.
