System: Oculus Rift Only Price at Time Of Review: Free Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement) Genre: Endless Runner Input: Tracked Motion Controllers Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing Multi-Player: No Age Rating: PG
Description: Astral Slider is an immersive time-attack laser racer. Slide through a number of different astral cyberworlds and blast your way past obstacles to increase your speed and beat your top scores. Play flatscreen or in VR.
Review: Well done to the developer of this game for messing up what should have been a great little free game. It’s an endless runner that sees you trying to dodge things and shot things along a never-ending track. The graphics are basic, but the game is free so that isn’t an issue and there is enough tracks and tunes to keep you going for hours (but a high score would be nice) What is an issue is just how uncontrollable it is. What should have been a simple left and right mechanic (maybe even as simple as old-school head gauze turning) is messed up for some reason. The game looks good and the tracks are fun, but the game is simply unplayable at the moment. I think the old saying of “so close, but yet so far” comes to mind.
