System: PSVR 1
Price at Time Of Review: £15.99
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Party / Mini Games
Input: Move Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: Carnival Games VR brings an all new immersive virtual reality experience, allowing you to explore the park, interact with patrons and play up to 12 different games! Enter a themed Carnival Alley where you can play a game and earn tickets for fun virtual prizes or unlock another game. Whether it’s scaling a castle in Climbing Wall, rolling for a high score in Alley Ball or shooting basketballs in Swish – there is something for everyone.
Review: Roll up! Roll up! Come and see the amazing bearded lady! OK, so there is no hairy females in Carnival Games VR, but there is 12 fun carnival games to play and all done especially for VR. Play any of the games earns you tickets for fun collectable items giving the game some much-needed replay value. You can play Golden Arm, Fast Pitch, Ring Toss, Shooting Gallery, Haunted House, Funnel Cake Catch, Quick Basketball Throw, Skee Ball, a there is even a challenging Climbing Wall to scramble up. Throw in horse racing, Balloon Pop Darts and even a Dunk Tank. All this means you will find some serious fun all in one place.
This is a game that was first released on the Wii, but looking back at that, it makes sense that it would be a good game for VR. The motion controls work well with it and I would imagine it wasn’t that hard to convert it to the PSVR. With online leaderboards and loads of collectable items to earn the completionists will be playing this for a long, long time.
While this game is a single-player game, it is a party game at heart and needs to be shared and passed around between players to get the most out of it. Get a group of 2 or more players and you will soon be playing this for hours on end, rather than one go on each game. Sure, there are the collectables to get, but most people won’t really bother with those.
If you intend to play this game at a party you will feel you get really good value for money from it, but as a single-player experience, you might think it wasn’t worth it. Even playing it on your own you will still have loads of fun because fun is what this game has been built on. I feel this is one game that was born to be played in VR and it shows. While the move controllers did loose tracking several times while I played it I put that down to poor tracking by the camera, not the game. This is VR family-friendly fun done the right way.
