Volo Airsport (Steam VR)

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £0.79
Comfort Rating: Red (Extreme Movement)
Genre: Flight Simulator
Input: Gamepad, Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: 15+
 

Description: Take to the skies and fly past mountains in a wingsuit. Try to hug the cliffs at over 250 km/h or cruise at high altitudes and admire the scenery. Your body and gear are fully physically simulated. You fly by controlling your character’s muscles directly, which changes your pose, which interacts with the air around you. You can see, hear, and feel every gust of wind as you pass it.

Review: Volo Airsport is basically a wingsuit simulator that gives you control if a simple stick-man / wingsuit character. While the character is as basic as graphics get, the good news is the scenery is simply stunning. The gameplay is pretty simple, choose an area to fly in and enjoy the flight! Physics wise this game is as realistic as wingsuit simulators feel, which gives you full control over your stick character, but it also makes it a little hard to control at first. But sticking with it I was soon gliding over much longer distances.

While the scenery itself looks simply stunning, but the stick figure wing suit character is simply annoying. Having said that it does control really well and the gameplay feels really responsive. While the simulator aspect of it is impressive, it also makes it a harder game to control and get into. In VR you do get a real feeling of wingsuit flight, but this also makes it VR sickness-inducing. This is a game of two halves and which half you choose to concentrate on will be how good you believe or don’t believe this game is.